State & Regional Govt & Politics Stories for January 2013
Stories for Wednesday, January 30
Poll: Californians upbeat over future, budget plan
Californians are more optimistic about the future of the state than at any time since before the recession and are giving high marks to Gov. Jerry Brown's budgeting approach after voters approved higher taxes to help balance the state budget, according to a poll released Wednesday. The Democratic governor's job ...
Stories for Tuesday, January 29
State lawmakers consider range of gun controls
California lawmakers promised Tuesday to move cautiously as they consider tighter restrictions on handguns, assault rifles and ammunition purchases, proposals that would add to state regulations already among the toughest in the nation. The chairmen of the Assembly and Senate public safety committees said during a joint legislative hearing that ...
Stories for Monday, January 28
State Speaker seeks to expand Medi-Cal for poor
Assembly Speaker John Perez introduced legislation Monday to expand Medicaid in California under the federal Affordable Care Act, extending the health care program for the poor and disabled to include more than 1 million additional people. At the same time, health care providers escalated their legal fight against the state's ...
Stories for Thursday, January 24
Brown promotes optimistic vision of California
Cheering a California rebound, Governor Jerry Brown delivered a State of the State address Thursday that laid out the legacy-building ideas he will work on during the second part of his term, including education reform, high-speed rail and the largest upgrade to the state's water-delivery system in decades. The Democratic ...
Stories for Tuesday, January 22
Cal State system has $250 million funding gap
California State University officials said Tuesday they will need nearly $250 million more in state funding for the next academic year than is currently proposed, an amount that Gov. Jerry Brown called "a dream more than reality." Brown warned the board of trustees at its Tuesday meeting that any request ...
Stories for Monday, January 21
State attorney general seeks money for prescription database
A system that tracks prescription drugs and has assisted in several celebrity death investigations is in jeopardy of ending, prompting California's top law enforcement official to seek new funding. The state created the nation's first prescription drug monitoring program in 1939 and shifted to a computerized database in 1997. The ...
Stories for Sunday, January 20
Judges say courts under siege from budget cuts
A famous judge sits in a cold, shuttered courtroom pushing papers while the California Supreme Court chief justice fumes over the state of court funding. "I hear people on television all the time saying, 'We'll have our day in court,'" said Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye. "And I nudge my husband ...
Stories for Saturday, January 19
State engineers question high-speed rail oversight
As California prepares to embark on its largest public works project in decades, a union that represents state engineers is questioning whether all the construction work will be thoroughly scrutinized. Contractors submitted bids this week to design and build the first 30-mile stretch of track for the $68 billion high-speed ...
Report: Too soon for state to control inmate care
It's too soon for California to retake control of its prison mental health system, a federal court overseer said Friday in dealing a blow to a proposal made by Gov. Jerry Brown last week. Too many inmates are still committing suicide and going untreated for their mental illness in California ...
Court: State lawmakers violated law to help Brown
California lawmakers violated the state Constitution when they passed a bill that gave Gov. Jerry Brown's tax initiative top billing on the November ballot, a state appeals court ruled Friday. The 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento said lawmakers were wrong to sidestep a two-thirds vote requirement to immediately ...
Stories for Monday, January 14
Analyst agrees Brown's Calif. budget in balance
After years of cutting education and social services to close deficits, California's budget is finally in balance as long as state lawmakers follow Gov. Jerry Brown's guidance to hold the line on spending, the Legislature's nonpartisan budget analyst said Monday. Analyst Mac Taylor commended the Democratic governor for emphasizing fiscal ...
Stories for Sunday, January 13
Wary of cost, Brown commits state to health reform
Gov. Jerry Brown says he's firmly committed to making national health care reform work in California, but he also is wary of potential costs that could affect state spending for years to come. In releasing his budget for the coming fiscal year last week, Brown pledged to be a reliable ...
Stories for Saturday, January 12
Judge's injunction blocks Prop 35’s internet disclosure requirement
A federal judge in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction Friday blocking a section of a voter initiative that would have required the state's 73,000 registered sex offenders to tell police their online screen names and Internet service providers. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson said the requirement in Proposition 35 ...
Stories for Friday, January 11
Ore., Calif., require transgender health coverage
Regulators in Oregon and California have quietly directed some health insurance companies to stop denying coverage for transgender patients because of their gender identity. The states aren't requiring coverage of specific medical treatments. But they told some private insurance companies they must pay for a transgender person's hormone therapy, breast ...
Colleges see more money in Brown's budget
After years of difficult budget cuts, Gov. Jerry Brown is offering more money to California's public colleges and universities, but in return he wants them to hold down costs, expand online learning and stop raising tuition, which has increased sharply in recent years. The Democratic governor released a 2013-2014 budget ...
Stories for Thursday, January 10
California high-speed rail on track to start construction in July
A representative of California High-Speed Rail was in San Francisco Thursday to talk about the rail system's near- and long-term plans in the Bay Area. Regional director of CHSR in Northern California Ben Tripousis joined San Francisco Director of Transportation Policy Gillian Gillett for a high-speed rail forum at the ...
Governor Brown proposes budget with rosier outlook
Riding a wave of new tax revenue, California's spending plan for the coming fiscal year will rise by nearly $5 billion, a powerful indication that the state that came to symbolize fiscal mismanagement during the heart of the recession is emerging into brighter days. Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday proposed ...
Stories for Wednesday, January 9
Calif. teachers fund moves to divest from firearms
The nation's largest teacher pension fund took the first step Wednesday toward divesting from companies that make guns and high-capacity ammunition magazines that are illegal in California. State Treasurer Bill Lockyer made a motion to begin the divestment process after pension fund officials determined that the fund invests in the ...
Stories for Tuesday, January 8
Governor Brown 'great' after cancer treatment
California Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday that he has concluded radiation treatment for early-stage prostate cancer, his second health scare since taking office two years ago. "My health is great," the 74-year-old Democrat declared in downtown Los Angeles, where he told reporters the treatment was "over, it's done." "I'm ready ...
Brown challenges court oversight of state prisons
Declaring that California's long-running prison crisis is over, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday challenged a federal court order by saying the state has done all it can to safely relieve overcrowding and improve medical and mental health care for inmates. Meeting further demands by the courts to reduce the inmate ...
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