State & Regional Govt & Politics Stories for January 2013
Stories for Monday, January 7
With tax hikes passed, lawmakers seek broad agenda
Lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Monday with a wide-ranging agenda that includes revisions to school funding, gun control laws and environmental regulations. The Senate and Assembly opened their two-year session with Democrats firmly in control of both houses. The party's supermajorities will allow them to approve taxes and fees ...
U.S. Supreme Court will hear Prop 8 arguments in late March
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it would hear arguments on March 26 on whether it was constitutional for California voters to ban same-sex marriage through a 2008 ballot measure. Sponsors of Proposition 8 and their committee, Protect Marriage, were appealing a ruling in which the 9th U.S. Circuit ...
Stories for Sunday, January 6
School funding, tax changes on Democrats' agenda
Democratic lawmakers are starting the new year with a tail wind they haven't had in 130 years — supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature. They also will be working with a governor of the same political party, a combination that means they can unilaterally increase taxes, pass emergency legislation ...
Stories for Friday, January 4
Report: Top parks officials kept $20 million hidden
Officials at the highest level of the California Department of Parks and Recreation helped keep millions of dollars secret for more than a decade, the state attorney general's office said in a report released Friday. The report said the "intentional non-disclosure" continued because employees feared the department's budget would be ...
California judge rejects 'birthers' challenge to Obama re-election
A federal judge has rejected a challenge by so-called "birthers" seeking to halt Friday's scheduled counting of Electoral College votes for President Barack Obama in their latest attempt to overturn Obama's presidency. In a courtroom packed with supporters of the birther movement, U.S. District Court Judge Morrison C. England rejected the ...
Stories for Thursday, January 3
California receives approval for health exchange
The federal government on Thursday approved California's plan to run its own health insurance market, a milestone in the state's effort to meet requirements of the national health care reform law. California was among seven states that received conditional approval from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to ...
Stories for Wednesday, January 2
Fiscal cliff deal brings some relief to California
The deal in Washington to avoid the "fiscal cliff" will bring a reprieve to California's slowly rebounding economy, but uncertainty remains in part because Congress delayed action on federal spending cuts. The agreement helps California avoid sliding back into recession, H.D. Palmer, finance spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown, said Wednesday. ...
New laws focus on party buses, in-car texting, red light cameras
Texting while driving, red-light cameras and party buses are among the targets of new driving-related laws that took effect in California Tuesday. Among the bills passed by the state Legislature and signed into law this year by Gov. Jerry Brown is a new law permitting drivers to text while driving ...
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