State & Regional Govt & Politics Stories for February 2012
Stories for Wednesday, February 29
Poll: Support growing for gay marriage among California voters
A new poll finds that six out of every 10 voters in California now support allowing same-sex couples to get married, a significant increase since the state voted to ban same-sex marriage a little more than two years ago. The Field Poll published Wednesday found that of the 515 registered ...
Stories for Tuesday, February 28
Mother Nature delivers treat for snow-starved Sierra
State surveyors who measured California's paltry Sierra Nevada snowpack on Tuesday might have fared better had they waited another day. A winter storm carrying the prospect of up to five feet of snow for the Northern Sierra was expected to hit late Tuesday night and last through Wednesday, putting state ...
Stories for Thursday, February 23
State considers lowering PG&E fines in fatal San Bruno blast
A state administrative judge is proposing to fine a utility under fire for the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion only $3 million, rather than going with a prior plan to charge Pacific Gas & Electric Co. $1 million each day for shoddy record-keeping. A California Public Utilities Commission judge issued ...
Stories for Tuesday, February 14
Same-sex marriage activists detained at SF City Hall
In what has become a San Francisco Valentine’s Day tradition, at least eight same-sex marriage advocates were detained Tuesday for staging a sit-in in the office of the county clerk protesting their inability to get marriage licenses. Karen Hong Yee, director of San Francisco's office of the county clerk, said ...
Stories for Tuesday, February 7
Appellate Court rules in favor of gay marriage in California
A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge correctly interpreted the U.S. ...
Questions arise over Brown appointee
Gov. Jerry Brown's appointee to head the department that oversees banking, financial and consumer regulations in California led a trade association that fought against tighter lending restrictions before the subprime mortgage crisis exploded. Jan Owen, a Democrat, also is named in a congressional inquiry into whether lawmakers and certain executives ...
Stories for Monday, February 6
State ballot could be crowded with tax-hike plans
It appears increasingly likely that Gov. Jerry Brown will have competition in November when he asks California voters to raise taxes as a way to stabilize the state's perpetually out-of-balance budget. On Monday, proponents of two other proposed tax initiatives pledged that they will have enough money to get their ...
Stories for Wednesday, February 1
PG&E can charge customers to nix SmartMeters
California regulators say Pacific Gas & Electric Co. can start charging its customers fees to avoid having wireless utility meters installed in their homes. Four members of the California Public Utilities Commission approved a proposal Wednesday that allows PG&E to charge residential customers an initial fee of $75, and a ...
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