State & Regional Govt & Politics Stories for January 2012
Stories for Tuesday, January 31
Brown reports $1.7 million for his tax campaign
Gov. Jerry Brown's campaign reported Tuesday that it has raised $1.7 million for his proposed November ballot initiative to raise California's sales and income taxes temporarily to help solve the state's ongoing budget deficits. The largest donor was the California Hospitals Committee, which gave $500,000. A building trades union, the ...
Stories for Sunday, January 29
Report: Brown replaced regulator over oil rules
A top state regulator and his deputy were removed last year after ignoring pressure from Gov. Jerry Brown to relax rules for companies seeking to tap California's oil, according to a newspaper investigation. The governor asked officials in October to develop a permitting shortcut for firms hoping to employ underground ...
Stories for Saturday, January 28
Brown sells taxes to voters suspicious of spending
After failing to sell Republican lawmakers on tax increases last year, Gov. Jerry Brown faces another tough act of salesmanship in 2012, this time with voters. While most other governors are proposing tax cuts and letting temporary tax increases expire, Brown is trying to make the case for boosting taxes ...
Stories for Friday, January 27
State Supreme Court upholds senate redistricting plan
The California Supreme Court on Friday upheld the state Senate maps drawn last year by an independent redistricting commission, dealing a blow to GOP attempts to block Democrats from gaining enough seats to pass taxes on their own. The high court announced that the Senate maps drawn by the citizens ...
Stories for Wednesday, January 25
UC Davis students occupy vacant campus building
A small group of University of California students have taken over a vacant building on the Davis campus. UC Davis spokeswoman Claudia Morain says the protesters entered the two-story building after a noon rally Tuesday and were still there Wednesday. Morain says the small building was recently the home of ...
Stories for Wednesday, January 18
Brown pitches for higher taxes in State of the State
Gov. Jerry Brown gave Californians a choice between higher taxes and deeper cuts to schools and other core functions of government during his State of the State address Wednesday, essentially beginning his campaign for a November ballot initiative that raises taxes. The Democratic governor said his push for temporary tax ...
Stories for Tuesday, January 17
Judge to end state's prison receivership
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered California officials to prepare for the end of a six-year, court-ordered prison receivership that has cost taxpayers billions of dollars and helped force a shift of lower-level criminals from state prisons to county jails. U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson cited improving conditions in ...
Stories for Saturday, January 14
Judge: State fails to protect disabled parolees
California prison officials have failed to monitor and protect hundreds of disabled parolees in county jails, a federal judge ruled, citing "overwhelming and disturbing evidence" that inmates with disabilities are being denied access to housing, programs and services. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of Oakland on Friday ordered state officials ...
Stories for Friday, January 13
State accused of improperly approving use of strawberry pesticide
Environmental groups say state regulators ignored science and broke public health laws when they approved a controversial pesticide for strawberry fields. Lawyers for a coalition of pesticide reform and farmworker groups argued Thursday that officials favored the input of the chemical's manufacturer, Arysta LifeScience, over scientists' recommendations. The groups are ...
Stories for Tuesday, January 10
Ex-welfare children won't face parents' old debts
California will no longer allow counties to seek refunds from former welfare recipients who were minors when their caregivers were overpaid. It's a partial win for advocates who had sued on behalf of the recipients, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday. It was welcome news for a 19-year-old Riverside County ...
GOP urges state high court to dump new voter maps
A group of California Republicans is seeking to dump new Senate districts planned for this year's election, drawing the state Supreme Court into the once-a-decade fight over drawing political boundaries. The legal fight Tuesday appears to have boiled down to the high court's interpretation of a 47-word passage in the ...
Stories for Friday, January 6
Effort to block California 'Dream Act' falls short
The attempt to block a California law that allows public financial aid for college students who are in the country illegally has failed to collect enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, the leading proponent said Friday. Opponents fell short by about 57,000 signatures, said state Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, who ...
Stories for Tuesday, January 3
State lawmakers return to capitol to face budget challenges
California lawmakers will reconvene to face a $13 billion budget deficit and other familiar issues, but they also will be dealing with an entirely new political landscape. Legislators who want to continue their political careers are trying to figure out a new primary system and independently drawn legislative boundaries. The ...
Backers of state millionaire tax target Kardashian
A coalition of groups supporting a proposed ballot initiative asking Californians to boost taxes on the rich is targeting one of the state's most famous millionaires -- reality TV star Kim Kardashian. The Courage Campaign's online video says Kardashian made $12 million in 2010 but paid just 1 percentage point ...
Stories for Monday, January 2
Legislative debate to revolve around fiscal crisis
California's budget deficit appears more manageable than in past years, but the state's ongoing fiscal crisis will continue to dominate debate over other matters in the Legislature during the coming session. Whether to delay a vote on an $11 billion water bond, approve online poker, reform public employee pensions, keep ...
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