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Californians split on Arizona's illegal immigration crackdown -- Of the voters surveyed, 50% support Arizona's law and 43% oppose it. There were sharp divides along lines of ethnicity and age. Seema Mehta in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/30/10 Community colleges to get funds for retraining -- President Obama's Bay Area visit last week highlighted his support for the green-tech industry, but for out-of-work Californians, the more important initiative may be the administration's little-noticed plan to give community colleges $2 billion in retraining funds over the next four years. Tom Abate in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/30/10 Behind in the polls, Tom Campbell makes plea for campaign donations -- With the Republican primary for U.S. Senate just nine days away and his chief rival pulling away with a commanding lead, former congressman Tom Campbell didn’t pull any punches in an appeal for contributions Sunday. Maeve Reston in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/30/10 Meg Whitman's name arose in federal probe of Credit Suisse bank -- Whitman, then CEO of EBay, is listed among about 200 executives who were to receive gifts of deeply discounted stock, according to court documents filed by prosecutors after the dot-com bust. Jack Dolan and Evan Halper in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/29/10 Regulators cited a Meg Whitman meeting in lawsuit against Wall Street firms -- The SEC said a Morgan Stanley analyst showed Whitman a rosy report of EBay stock — and then released it — to court her business. The bank agreed to a settlement but admitted no wrongdoing. Evan Halper and Jack Dolan in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/29/10 Whitman expands primary lead; Fiorina pulls out from the pack -- In governor's race Whitman is 24 points ahead of Steve Poizner, 6 points behind Jerry Brown. GOP Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina has clear lead but moderate Tom Campbell fared best against Barbara Boxer. Cathleen Decker in the Los Angeles Times Kevin Yamamura in the Sacramento Bee -- 5/29/10 Morain: Whitman finally hints she's a Republican -- Suddenly, Meg Whitman has found her missing R. Dan Morain in the Sacramento Bee -- 5/30/10 Whitman scoots right on a double-edged sword -- A new L.A. Times/USC poll shows that she has regained a sizable lead against her primary opponent, but it comes at the cost of her narrow lead in the general election. Cathleen Decker in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/29/10 Meg's Spending: Jets, Consultants, Ads -- She flies ACM Aviation, a fleet of private planes advertising “white glove” service. He flies AirTran Airways, the self-described “low-fare airline.” Richard Parks Bay Citizen -- 5/30/10 Ex-governor opens records of 1975-83 tenure as he seeks the office again -- One cardboard box is labeled, simply, "Crazies." Marjie Lundstrom in the Sacramento Bee -- 5/30/10 Mailer wrongly called Nadia Lockyer a prosecutor -- A political mailer sent to voters by Nadia Lockyer's campaign falsely states that the Alameda County supervisorial candidate is a prosecutor despite her assertion earlier this week that the claim never appeared in printed campaign literature. Matthai Kuruvila in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/29/10 FACT CHECK: AG hopeful's ad misleads on San Francisco crime -- In the contentious Democratic primary race for California attorney general, former Facebook executive Chris Kelly's latest ad against San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris makes misleading claims about crime rates in his opponent's city. MARCUS WOHLSEN Associated Press -- 5/30/10 Borenstein: For CalPERS board member, rules don't apply when you're special -- The arrogance is stunning. Priya Mathur, a member of the board of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, acts like rules don't apply to her. Daniel Borenstein in the Contra Costa Times -- 5/29/10 Whitman, Poizner change positions on drilling -- California GOP gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner on Friday backed away from their party's "drill, baby, drill" mantra in the wake of the devastating BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which is now considered to be the worst oil-related disaster in American history. Carla Marinucci in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/29/10 Saunders: Getting a read on the candidates' books -- We know this much about who will win the Republican primaries for U.S. Senate and governor and who will represent Democrats in those races: The winners will be writers. Debra J. Saunders in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/29/10 Saunders: Politics and fiction -- Barbara Boxer, Chuck DeVore Debra J. Saunders in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/29/10 Reading candidates' books unearths nuggets -- If the eyes are the window to the soul, as the cliche goes, the political world has a corollary: Books written by candidates are the window into the soul the candidates would like you to believe they have. Joe Garofoli, Debra J. Saunders in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/30/10 Winograd makes Harman take notice -- Liberal Marcy Winograd is again challenging the more conservative Jane Harman in the 36th Congressional District. An analyst calls it 'an ideological battle for the soul of the Democratic Party.' Maria L. La Ganga in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/30/10 Challengers dog Rep. Richardson over finances -- Rep. Laura Richardson is ready to move on, past the personal financial troubles and other episodes that marred her first full term in Congress. But three challengers from her own party are hoping voters won't forget Richardson's troubles when they go to the polls June 8 to decide the Democratic race in the 37th Congressional District. Paul Eakins in the Torrance Daily Breeze -- 5/30/10 Newsom rakes in double his rival's haul -- The money keeps rolling in for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who has raised more than twice as much as Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn in their Democratic primary race for lieutenant governor. John Wildermuth in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/29/10 Open-primary measure could reshape California' political system — or not -- If you listen to its backers, Proposition 14 on the June 8 ballot is the panacea for California's ills — a way to sidestep decades of partisan gridlock. Denis C. Theriault in the San Jose Mercury -- 5/30/10 Steinberg calls for social services shift to California counties -- As he stares into the abyss of a $19.1 billion state budget shortfall, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is urging Californians to consider an earth-shifting governmental move. Susan Ferriss in the Sacramento Bee -- 5/30/10 Mother’s Eyes See Trouble With Tax Rolls -- Jennifer Bestor is a fifth-generation Republican, a stay-at-home mother from Menlo Park who was concerned about budget cuts at her son’s school. So she started looking into the property taxes that underwrite the schools. What she found disturbed her. DANIEL WEINTRAUB in the New York Times -- 5/30/10 Walters: 'Rebenching' may be California's new fiscal way -- The term "rebenching" has made its way into the Capitol's political lexicon. We're likely to hear it more often in the future. Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee -- 5/30/10 Breton: Unions pull strings in Sacramento races -- More often than not, the culture shaping Sacramento is a microcosm of what ails the state of California. Marcos Breton in the Sacramento Bee -- 5/30/10
Nearly 880,000 Californians are long-term unemployed -- To a degree not seen in recent recessions, unemployment has become a drawn-out affair. Dale Kasler in the Sacramento Bee -- 5/30/10 Pop-pop-pop go nail guns as housing slowly revives -- Madeira, a 1,900-acre planned development at the city's southern edge, was nearly left for dead when the real estate market crashed. But builders have returned, although in a limited way. Jim Wasserman in the Sacramento Bee -- 5/30/10 Golden Gate Bridge to charge carpoolers $3 toll -- The free ride is up - beginning July 1 - for carpoolers crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. Michael Cabanatuan in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/29/10 California executive pay report: CEOs took in 11% less in 2009, but riches are ahead -- Thanks to stock options issued last year at bargain-basement prices, executives are positioned for unusually large profits. The item is in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/30/10 State argues in court for furloughs -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's lawyer defended his furloughs of 7,900 state workers' compensation employees before a skeptical state appeals court Friday, saying a law that protects them from cutbacks leaves the governor free to reduce their workweeks. Bob Egelko in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/30/10 Federal regulators seize Granite Community Banks -- Federal regulators seized Granite Community Bank on Friday, the first bank failure in the immediate Sacramento area amid the current economic crisis. Charles Piller in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/30/10
Oakland Schools to Seek Fed Funds -- Two struggling schools agree to tough-love reforms Gerry Shih Bay Citizen -- 5/30/10
Bikes Get Street Cred In San Francisco -- It used to be that coveted street parking spaces in San Francisco were only for cars, but some are now being set aside for bicycles. Scott James Bay Citizen -- 5/30/10 Berkeley Group Sues to Stop Kapor's Mansion -- A group of Berkeley residents has filed suit against the City of Berkeley for failing to follow due process when it approved an application, by Lotus founder and philanthropist Mitch Kapor, to build a new home near the Rose Garden in the Berkeley Hills. Tracey Taylor Bay Citizen -- 5/30/10 Snow keeps Northern California ski resorts open for Memorial Day -- Despite unseasonably cold temperatures and windy conditions, forecasters last week were a little surprised to see a storm system moving across Northern California so late in May, producing thunderstorms, rain and hail in most of the coastal regions and several inches of snow in the mountains. Ruben Vives in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/30/10 Mountain bicyclists feel left out by restrictions on Bay Area Ridge Trail -- Despite the original vision of the ridge trail as a multiuse route for hikers, horse riders and mountain bicyclists, two East Bay public agencies bar bicycles on some segments of the ridge trail in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Denis Cuff in the Contra Costa Times -- 5/30/10 Gloom grows as BP's 'top kill' effort fails -- 'This scares everybody — the fact that we can't make this well stop flowing,' an official says. Some hope lies with a new maneuver to cap the leak. Margot Roosevelt and Louis Sahagun in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/30/10
Whooping cough cases in California more than double -- California health authorities say that cases of whooping cough reported to the state have more than doubled so far this year — 346 cases from Jan. 1 to April 30, up from 129 cases during the same period last year. Rong-Gong Lin II in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/29/10 White House backs San Francisco in health coverage suit -- The Obama administration took San Francisco's side Friday in a legal dispute over the city's groundbreaking health coverage law, urging the Supreme Court to reject an appeal by restaurant owners who objected to paying part of the cost. Bob Egelko in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/29/10 Parents of 'medically fragile' kids likely to lose Sacramento County help -- Gracie Lynn Johnson was born with devastating medical problems, to an overburdened mother with psychological issues. It all added up to tragedy. Cynthia Hubert in the Sacramento Bee -- 5/30/10
Thousands in Phoenix protest Arizona's immigration law -- The demonstration, one of the largest since SB 1070 was signed into law in April, draws a diverse crowd. Backers of the law are to hold their own rally at a suburban stadium in the evening. Nicholas Riccardi in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/30/10 Boy in U.S. 13 years may be deported to Russia -- A 16-year-old honors student from Fremont who has lived in this country since age 3 faces deportation to his native Russia because his mother wasn't able to get her immigration status in order. Henry K. Lee in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 5/30/10 New visa rules hurt recruitment of foreign priests -- With his gentle nature and easy laugh, the Rev. Jovito Rata was well-liked by his parishioners at Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Redding. The priest stunned churchgoers last year when he announced at Sunday Mass that he had three days to leave the country and return to the Philippines because of complications with his visa. Jennifer Garza in the Sacramento Bee -- 5/30/10
Lopez: Serviceman and Iraqi wife caught in a paperwork prison -- Army reservist becomes the subject of a military investigation after marrying a translator he met while serving in the Mideast. Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times -- 5/30/10 In Czar Peter’s Footsteps -- Next month, in California, President Dmitri A. Medvedev will spend a day acquainting himself with Silicon Valley, the template for a new scientific city that the government is building outside Moscow. ELLEN BARRY in the New York Times -- 5/30/10
DOWD: Once More, With Feeling -- President Spock’s behavior is illogical. MAUREEN DOWD in the New York Times -- 5/30/10
The perils of crowd sourcing -- What happens when the marketplace of ideas meets the free-for-all medium of the Internet? Republicans might be learning the hard way. MARIN COGAN Politico -- 5/30/10 |
