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Bill to muzzle agencies on tribal issues shelved -- A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday in a case out of Michigan has forced Sen. Joel Anderson to shelve contentious legislation that aimed to silence California agencies from speaking out against applications by Indian tribes to annex land for certain purposes. Michael Gardner UT San Diego -- 6/18/12 Darrell Steinberg defends CA budget, aims for completion this week -- Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, defended the Legislature's deadline passage of a main budget bill Friday without most of the implementing language, responding to critics who suggested lawmakers had rushed through a plan to maintain their pay. Kevin Yamamura SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/18/12 Environmental group demands full San Onofre review -- An environmental group filed a legal petition with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday to keep the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant closed pending extensive review by regulators and the public. Abby Sewell in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/18/12 Stripping a relic: Moffett Field's Hangar One, Bay Area's most famous skeleton, nearly naked -- When viewed from Highway 101, the deconstruction of Moffett Field's Hangar One resembles dozens of white ants tearing the flesh off a metal caterpillar. Stephen Tung in the San Jose Mercury -- 6/18/12 California lawmakers target linking of student IDs to test scores -- State lawmakers weighed in Monday against a controversial practice in which schools issue student IDs and notebooks that are color-coded to show how the student did on standardized testing. Patrick McGreevy LA Times PolitiCal$ -- 6/18/12 State legislators warned by ethics agency on campaign violations -- Two current state lawmakers and one former legislator have been found to have violated campaign finance rules, according to the state ethics agency, but they were let off with warning letters because the offenses involved relatively small amounts of money. Patrick McGreevy LA Times PolitiCal$ -- 6/18/12 California Public Unions Win Budget Concessions -- The budget California’s Democratic- controlled Legislature sent to Governor Jerry Brown last week granted concessions to public employee unions even as talks continue on cutting programs for the poor. Michael B. Marois and James Nash Bloomberg -- 6/18/12 High-speed rail, pensions and budget all on Capitol agenda -- The next two weeks are expected to be busy ones in the state Capitol. For starters, Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown continue to haggle over the incomplete budget sent by lawmakers to the governor’s desk Friday. Anthony York in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/18/12 Senate measure proposes to honor former Sen. Jenny Oropeza -- Former Democratic state Sen. Jenny Oropeza would be honored posthumously with a Los Angeles County highway overcrossing named after her under a proposal zipping through the Legislature. Jim Sanders SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/18/12 Fox: Thank Goodness for Prop 25, Right? -- Thanks to Proposition 25 we have an on-time, balanced budget — or so we are told. The truth is we have a budget document that any respectable college professor would grade “incomplete”– at best. Joel Fox Fox & Hounds -- 6/18/12 Jerry Brown urges reduction of toxic flame retardants in furniture -- Gov. Jerry Brown urged state regulators today to reduce the use of toxic flame retardants in upholstered furniture. David Siders SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/18/12
Campaign to defeat Jerry Brown's tax measure gears up -- One morning last week, as Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature huddled over the state budget at the Capitol, the effort to undo a central part of Brown's spending plan began to take shape in an office building just a few blocks away. David Siders in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/18/12 California voters curbed GOP on budget, but not taxes -- For two years in a row now, the Legislature has managed to meet its constitutional deadline to pass a budget - and it's all thanks to voters. Whether that's a good thing depends on whom you ask. Marisa Lagos, Wyatt Buchanan in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/18/12 Haunted By The Spirit of ’13 -- The estimable Joel Fox, former head of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and now president of the anti-tax Small Business Action Committee, used to complain vehemently about the tendency of some on the left to blame all of California’s ills on Proposition 13. Peter Schrag Cal Progress Report -- 6/18/12 Walters: California and North Dakota are a study in contrasts -- Much is made in the media about California's economic, cultural and political competition with Texas, but it's really a sibling rivalry. Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/18/12 Skelton: Debating California's new top-two vote-getter system -- When one candidate in a primary wins a clear majority, does it makes sense for that person to have to run again in November? George Skelton in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/18/12 Farm bill splits produce growers, food activists -- Five years ago, California farmers were a powerful ally of the new food movement's crusade to get Washington to stop subsidizing corn and start promoting the fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts that are the mainstay of the state's huge farm sector. Carolyn Lochhead in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/18/12 Nation's first ban on foie gras taking effect – after eight years -- Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King used civil disobedience to champion their causes. Soon, the makers and users of foie gras may join them. Greg Lucas Capitol Weekly -- 6/18/12 46th Assembly District race still a squeaker -- It was one of the most expensive Assembly races in the state, but a Republican chemistry teacher who spent just $2,000 on his campaign still has a four-vote lead over a Democrat who spent at least $375,000. Dakota Smith in the Los Angeles Daily News -- 6/18/12 Former Bell officials' pensions reduced even further -- Robert Rizzo and Angela Spaccia were sent letters by the California Public Employees' Retirement System notifying them that they are not entitled to five years' worth of credit they bought for themselves with city funds. Jeff Gottlieb in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/18/12 Rodney King was haunted by memories, daunted by pain -- The 1991 beating by LAPD officers and years of drug and alcohol abuse left Rodney King unmoored. But he sought a new beginning. Kurt Streeter in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/18/12 Lopez: Rodney King was tragic figure, unlikely symbol -- It seemed from a distance that Rodney King spent much of his adult life on the edge of death, a tragic and symbolic figure unable to cope with life, adversity and fame. Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/18/12 Rodney King seen as catalyst for policing change -- Rodney King, who died Sunday after a troubled life, never meant to change the Los Angeles Police Department - but that's what he ended up doing. LINDA DEUTSCH Associated Press -- 6/18/12 Oakland attorney John Burris remembers tough life of Rodney King, 'the face of police brutality' -- His beating by four Los Angeles police officers once placed him, infamously, at the center of the most visible spasm of racial violence in America since the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. Bruce Newman in the San Jose Mercury -- 6/18/12 Rodney King's plea measures his lasting meaning -- Twenty years later, Rodney King's simple yet profound question still lingers, from the street where Trayvon Martin died all the way to the White House: "Can we all get along?" JESSE WASHINGTON Associated Press -- 6/18/12 King: Sought quieter life, but remained a racial lightning rod -- Whether he liked it or not, Rodney King had been linked over the past 20 years to unresolved issues of the post-Civil Rights era, police and minority relations, and his own plea, “Can we all get along,” for an end to the riots that consumed Los Angeles in 1992. RICHARD K. De ATLEY in the Riverside Press -- 6/18/12 Federal appeals court defends plan to host conference in Maui -- The leadership of a San Francisco-based federal appeals court has officially mounted its defense against criticism from two Republican senators who took aim two weeks ago at plans to hold an annual judges' conference at a tropical resort in Maui. Howard Mintz in the San Jose Mercury -- 6/18/12 Trustees overseeing ailing pension systems expense local hotel stays -- Despite staggering pension fund shortfalls, officials overseeing some of the largest public retirement systems in the Bay Area have spent more than $60,000 since the beginning of 2008 to attend conferences just miles from their homes, expense records show. JENNIFER GOLLAN Bay Citizen -- 6/18/12
Morgan Stanley Was 'Driver' on Facebook's Wild IPO Ride -- In snaring the most coveted investment-banking assignment of the year, Morgan Stanley's Michael Grimes insisted to a senior Facebook Inc. executive that he be the "single driver" of the company's initial public offering, adding that if the deal soured, it would be his "throat to choke." MONICA LANGLEY, ANUPREETA DAS and AARON LUCCHETTI in the Wall Street Journal$ -- 6/18/12 Homeowner Aid Boosts Big Banks -- A government program that helps struggling homeowners take advantage of low interest rates to cut monthly mortgage payments is providing an unexpected revenue boost to large banks such as Wells Fargo and J.P. Morgan Chase Co. CHRISTIAN BERTHELSEN and ALAN ZIBEL in the Wall Street Journal$ -- 6/18/12 Apple's Passbook app a step toward digital wallet -- As the Worldwide Developer Conference wrapped up in San Francisco last week, one application stood out for its potential to change the way we use our phones. Casey Newton in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/18/12
Teacher evaluation plan a test for LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy -- Armed with a court order mandating the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy now faces the tough job of selling his achievement-based review system to the district's teachers, union leaders and even its school board members. Barbara Jones in the Los Angeles Daily News -- 6/18/12 Court order puts Aspire students and parents at peril -- Sometime this month – perhaps even this week – a superior court judge is expected to order the disposition of six Aspire charter schools improperly authorized by the California State Board of Education in 2007. Tom Chorneau SI&A Cabinet Report -- 6/18/12 UC Berkeley's libraries next chapter may be cuts -- UC Berkeley ranks among the five best universities on the planet in part because an engineering researcher there has no trouble finding the gravity study he needs from the 1970s. Nanette Asimov in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/18/12 Bill would provide unemployment benefits while laid-off teachers retrain -- Laid-off teachers could continue collecting unemployment benefits while enrolled in additional training programs under terms of a bill working its way through the Legislature. Kimberly Beltran SI&A Cabinet Report -- 6/18/12 Kirst: California students’ improvement on AP exams deserves more attention -- There is some good news in California student achievement trends. High performers, as measured by passage of the Advanced Placement exam, are increasing, and rank very high in interstate comparisons. Michael Kirst TopEd -- 6/18/12 Summer SAT for group of elite students is canceled -- College Board gives in after complaint from a San Mateo counselor that the plan to let a group of gifted students take the SAT this summer wasn't fair. Stephen Ceasar in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/18/12
Southern California lab, radiology company accused of health care fraud -- Southern California’s largest clinical laboratory and radiology company serving nursing homes faces fraud allegations, adding to the growing number of False Claims Act lawsuits filed against the health care industry nationwide. Bernice Yeung California Watch -- 6/18/12 Health chief struggles to meet physical activity goals -- If breaking a sweat sometimes falls off your to-do list, take heart. California's top public health official is right there with you, trying – sometimes in vain – to squeeze in a bike ride or a yoga class. KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI Bay Citizen -- 6/18/12
Hydropower With a Shrinking Snowpack -- While much is uncertain about California’s warming climate, there is little doubt that it’s already changing the fundamentals of how most of us get our water. In fact, the Bureau of Reclamation has estimated that the Sierra snowpack could be reduced by half as soon as a decade from now. Craig Miller KQED Climate Watch -- 6/18/12
Reaching out to the undocumented and uninsured -- Since Maria Alfaro and her family came to California from El Salvador eight years ago, getting sick has not been an option. Suzanne Potter HealthyCal.org -- 6/18/12
L.A. City Council weighs 'gentle' ban on medical marijuana clinics -- A "gentle ban" on medical marijuana clinics to be considered by the Los Angeles City Council this week could result in the closure of hundreds of dispensaries that the city has been struggling to control for years. Rick Orlov in the Los Angeles Daily News -- 6/18/12 Taco Truck Deaths Latest of Many Casualties in High-Speed Police Pursuits -- Nearly three dozen Californians died in 2010 in crashes resulting from high-speed chases, state records show. Sharon Bernstein and Jason Kandel NBC LA -- 6/18/12
Bain Capital: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in a muddle -- The Obama campaign wants you to know that Mitt Romney took over companies, laid off workers, canceled health plans, shipped jobs overseas and walked away with millions. ALEXANDER BURNS and JOHN F. HARRIS Politico -- 6/18/12 McCain: Obama ‘dictating' immigration policy -- GOP Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) blasted President Obama's decision to halt the deportation of some young illegal immigrants, saying it was an overreach of the chief executive's powers and called it an attempt to "distract" voters from the economy. Meghashyam Mali The Hill -- 6/18/12
Romney dodges immigration questions -- Mitt Romney refuses to say whether he’d repeal the Obama administration’s decision to stop deporting certain undocumented immigrants. REID J. EPSTEIN Politico -- 6/18/12 Campaign ads target Latinos as a key issue looms -- Barack Obama got overwhelming support from Latino voters in 2008, helping him win the White House. Mitt Romney hopes to hold down that margin this year. So both campaigns are targeting Latino voters in TV ads. Brian Naylor KPCC LA -- 6/18/12 GOP on health care: Repeal quickly, replace slowly -- Congressional Republicans intend to seek quick repeal of any parts of the health care law that survive a widely anticipated Supreme Court ruling, but don't plan to push replacement measures until after the fall elections or perhaps 2013. David Espo Associated Press -- 6/18/12 Boehner campaigns with Romney, says he can deliver Ohio -- House Speaker John Boehner (R) says he can deliver the campaign battleground state of Ohio for Mitt Romney's presidential bid. Molly K. Hooper The Hill -- 6/18/12 |
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