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Jerry Brown tells city officials to come to the table -- Gov. Jerry Brown spoke to more than 200 city officials Wednesday, defending his plan to use $1.7 billion in redevelopment funds -– most of which go to cities -– to help offset cuts to schools and healthcare services for the poor. Anthony York LA Times PolitiCal John Myers Capitol Notes weblog Kevin Yamamura SacBee Capitol Alert -- 1/19/11 Sen. Leland Yee slams Limbaugh for mocking Chinese language -- Add state Senator Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, to the list of people offended and peeved at talk radio host Rush Limbaugh's nearly 20-second, unintelligible mockery of the Chinese language. (As Salon pointed out, there's a long list of folks -- about 1.3 billion in China alone -- who likely share his anger.) Marisa Lagos Chronicle Politics -- 1/19/11 House passes health law repeal -- House Republicans passed a bill to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care plan Wednesday, taking their first major step toward rolling back the massive overhaul that has dominated the American political landscape for almost two years. CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN Politico -- 1/19/11 Scarves, ties among foreign gifts to California representatives -- California Rep. Nancy Pelosi got to keep just one of the three E. Marinella scarves given to her by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Torey Van Oot SacBee Capitol Alert -- 1/19/11 California politicians heading to White House China state dinner -- The guest list for tonight's White House state dinner for visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao includes a handful of current and former politicians from California. Torey Van Oot SacBee Capitol Alert -- 1/19/11 Washington's top-two primary clears another court challenge -- The top-two primary system that was the model for California's new election rules has survived another court challenge. Torey Van Oot SacBee Capitol Alert -- 1/19/11 VIDEO: GOP Assemblyman rips, shreds Jerry Brown's budget -- If a new online video by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, is any indication, Gov. Jerry Brown has a ways to go to convince Republican legislators to go along with his budget plan. Jack Chang SacBee Capitol Alert -- 1/19/11 Gavin Newsom suggests challenging Jerry Brown's UC cuts -- In his first remarks at a University of California Board of Regents meeting this morning, Lt. Gov. and Regent Gavin Newsom proposed challenging half a billion dollars in cuts to the UC system proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown. Jack Chang SacBee Capitol Alert -- 1/19/11 Major retailers back bid for 'Amazon tax' in California -- Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner is making another run at forcing major online retailers, including Amazon, to collect sales tax on California purchases. Kevin Yamamura SacBee Capitol Alert -- 1/19/11 California Policy and Politics This Morning -- Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is scheduled to speak Thursday at the Harvard Club in San Francisco, according to the club's website. Jack Chang SacBee Capitol Alert -- 1/19/11 Calif judge: handgun ammo laws unconstitutional -- A judge has ruled that key sections of a California law restricting the sale of handgun ammunition cannot be enforced because they are unconstitutional. GARANCE BURKE AP -- 1/19/11 Memorial for Sen. Jenny Oropeza set for Thursday -- The Senate on Thursday will celebrate the life of the late Sen. Jenny Oropeza, a Long Beach Democrat who championed cancer-prevention legislation and died last October at age 53 after a long illness. Susan Ferriss SacBee Capitol Alert -- 1/19/11
Meg Whitman to speak to Bay Area business group -- Meg Whitman is scheduled to make her first public appearance since losing the gubernatorial race at a Jan. 31 women's executive roundtable to be held at Chantilly restaurant in Redwood City, according to Joe Arellano, a spokesman for the Bay Area Council business group, which is hosting the event. Jack Chang SacBee Capitol Alert Joe Garofoli Chronicle Politics -- 1/19/11 Senate Dems hearing from Republican Safeway CEO and others -- Senate Democrats holding a closed-door policy conference today and Wednesday are reviewing options for slashing the state budget and listening to the concerns and ideas of Safeway's CEO and other business interests. Susan Ferriss SacBee Capitol Alert -- 1/19/11 California taxpayers' money wasted, misused, state auditor finds -- Gov. Jerry Brown is alerted to hundreds of thousands of dollars in waste and fraud, complicating his plan to persuade voters to extend expiring tax increases. Patrick McGreevy in the Los Angeles Times -- 1/19/11 State auditor: Lingering prison probe wasted $366,000 -- The California Department of Corrections allowed a prison psychiatrist to continue to treat patients for four months after allegations of incompetence surfaced and wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary during its three-year misconduct probe, according to the state auditor. Kendall Taggart California Watch Kevin Yamamura in the Sacramento Bee -- 1/19/11 State lawmakers want bullet train board to face stricter conflict-of-interest disclosure rules -- Members of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority board would be subject to stricter rules for disclosing and avoiding potential conflicts of interest under legislation pending in both the state Assembly and Senate. Rich Connell in the Los Angeles Times -- 1/19/11 Changes in store at campaign-finance watchdog agency -- Before he became governor for the first time in 1975, then-Secretary of State Jerry Brown was a cheerleader for toughening rules on campaign fundraising and political ethics after Watergate. Jim Miller in the Riverside Press -- 1/19/11 CalBuzz: Calbuzz Democracy vs. Flashreport Feudalism -- The other morning, there was an intriguing headline slapped over a story on Flashreport, the conservative web site run by our favorite knuckle-dragging blogger and Republican operative, Jon Fleischman. Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine CalBuzz -- 1/19/11 Rogan finally to spill on Clinton -- Four years ago this week, former Rep. James Rogan and I sat in a microbrewery in Anaheim and he revealed he was harboring a historical gold mine: a 3-foot-high stack of legal pads containing the notes he took as he prosecuted President Bill Clinton 's impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate. FRANK MICKADEIT in the Orange County Register -- 1/19/11
U.S. Supreme Court to decide if California can cut payments to Medi-Cal providers -- Justices will decide whether to allow the cash-strapped state to reduce what it pays to doctors, hospitals and other providers of healthcare for the poor. David G. Savage and Shane Goldmacher in the Los Angeles Times -- 1/19/11 Walters: The elephant in the budget room? Teachers union -- When Capitol politicians gather to discuss the deficit-ridden state budget, there's an elephant in the room. Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee -- 1/19/11 Brown's Countdown, Day 10: Legislature slow to react as localities OK billions in redevelopment project -- The Assembly gaveled in and out Tuesday in a matter of minutes. The Senate did not meet as Democrats convened for their annual policy retreat at the UC Davis Medical Center. Kevin Yamamura in the Sacramento Bee -- 1/19/11 Fremont authorizes redevelopment bonds amid uncertainty -- The long-anticipated Irvington BART station looks like it will either be built well ahead of schedule -- or never come to pass. Matthew Artz in the Contra Costa Times -- 1/19/11 San Jose moves to save redevelopment money -- San Jose officials have scheduled an emergency Wednesday meeting of the city's redevelopment agency in a bid to protect funds for planned projects from the state's clutches. John Woolfolk in the San Jose Mercury -- 1/19/11 Governor's budget plan spurs $155 million in borrowing -- Riverside County joined a growing list of agencies Tuesday that are scrambling to counteract Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to eliminate redevelopment in California. DUANE W. GANG in the Riverside Press -- 1/19/11 California cities race to shield funds from state -- As Jerry Brown seeks to kill redevelopment agencies, officials move to protect the groups' money. They see a raid by Sacramento, while the state says the funds are needed to protect vital services. Jessica Garrison in the Los Angeles Times -- 1/19/11 Herdt: On taxes, redevelopment and teamwork -- In 2009, after the meltdown of world financial markets and the onset of the most severe recession since the bread lines of the 1930s, the tax revenues that the state of California uses to fund public schools plummeted by nearly 20 percent in a single year. Timm Herdt in the Ventura Star -- 1/19/11
Apple profit shatters expectations -- Briefly taking the spotlight from Steve Jobs' announcement that he was taking a third leave of absence, Apple reports first-quarter earnings of a whopping $6 billion. Jessica Guynn and Tiffany Hsu in the Los Angeles Times -- 1/19/11 Green jobs showed strong growth in California in 2008, data show -- Clean-tech and alternative-energy firms added 5,000 jobs, a survey by Next 10 found. About 174,000 Californians were working in eco-friendly fields by early 2009, with nearly a quarter of the jobs based in L.A. Tiffany Hsu in the Los Angeles Times -- 1/19/11 Growth of Sacramento's green sector flat in 2009, study says -- After doubling over the past 15 years, job growth in Sacramento's green sector was flat in 2009, according to a new study. Rick Daysog in the Sacramento Bee -- 1/19/11
Community colleges chief opposes Brown funding changes -- California Community Colleges Chancellor Jack Scott says Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to change the way community colleges are funded is "not a good idea," and that he will try to convince the Legislature to amend it. Louis Freedberg California Watch -- 1/19/11 Fensterwald: Fewer districts say they’re in trouble -- Ten school districts have acknowledged that they’re headed toward insolvency this year or next. An additional 91 districts say they won’t be able to make ends meet two years from now, based on current projections. John Fensterwald educatedguess -- 1/19/11 L.A. Unified to review search policy in wake of Gardena High shooting -- District officials consider whether the screening policy needs to be updated. One Gardena student said weapons checks using hand-held metal detectors occurred 'once in a blue moon.' Jason Song in the Los Angeles Times -- 1/19/11 Parents: Teachers retaliating -- Two parent activists have filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights Office alleging they and their children have been victims of retaliation because they support a campaign to turn over a local school to a charter operator. Christina Hoag AP -- 1/19/11
Bay Area residents urge protection of health care reforms -- As House Republicans opened debate on their bill to repeal last year's health care reforms, Bay Area residents gathered Tuesday to explain how the law already helps them and why protecting it is a vital fight for so many Americans. Josh Richman in the Oakland Tribune -- 1/19/11 Blue Shield, doctors battle over physician ratings -- For anyone who has had a common cold, an ongoing debate between a major California health insurer and the group that represents doctors is one to watch. Christina Jewett California Watch -- 1/19/11
Big water forecast still falls short for Valley farmers -- Federal officials Tuesday forecast nine times more summer irrigation water for west Valley farmers than this time last year -- but it's still far less than what farmers want. Mark Grossi and Robert Rodriguez in the Fresno Bee -- 1/19/11 Sacramento suburbs told to expect 100% of U.S. water allotments -- Many residents of suburban Sacramento can breathe a little easier about keeping lawns green this summer: The federal government expects to deliver a full allotment of water to those communities that depend on Folsom Lake. Matt Weiser in the Sacramento Bee -- 1/19/11 King Tides Could Preview Sea Level Rise -- This week, seasonal high tides, known as "King Tides" will roll into the Bay Area, providing a preview of what the region might face if sea level rises over the coming decades as predicted. Gretchen Weber KQED Climate Watch -- 1/19/11 Breuner Marsh restoration will turn old dumping ground into ecological gem -- s a child in the 1950s, Whitney Dotson and his friends would scramble across the railroad tracks near his home to catch tadpoles and take dips in the waters of the Breuner Marsh, a slice of nature amid the refineries and industrial plants along the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. Denis Cuff in the Contra Costa Times -- 1/19/11
Lopez: It's time to inject sanity into the gun debate -- The school shooting in Gardena and the Tucson rampage drove home the point that the U.S. dialogue on weapons and ammunition needs to include moderate voices. Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times -- 1/19/11 San Francisco pension costs jump $20 million -- San Francisco's pension time bomb just exploded, with the city being told it will have to pony up $20 million more than previously expected in the next fiscal year. Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 1/19/11 Sheriff Lee Baca met with Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley to discuss donor's case -- Baca and Cooley met last April to discuss how a Beverly Hills businessman's forgery case against a tenant could be reopened. Late last year, the forgery case was re-filed. Robert Faturechi and Andrew Blankstein in the Los Angeles Times -- 1/19/11 L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar sends backers an e-mail defending use of lists that graded support -- Jose Huizar says the lists, which he said were the work of a former staff member, helped him stay in touch with constituents. David Zahniser in the Los Angeles Times -- 1/19/11 Financial disclosures controversial for LA police, routine in San Diego -- Los Angeles Police Department detectives who specialize in gang investigations are reportedly leaving their street crime units in large numbers to avoid disclosing a wide range of personal financial information to the agency. However, their counterparts in San Diego have been divulging much the same information for at least two decades. Ryan Gabrielson California Watch -- 1/19/11 Ex-district attorney's home security paid with forfeiture funds -- A home security system for former Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco, who was threatened in a newspaper ad during his time as the county's prosecutor, cost $18,764. The money came from asset forfeiture funds. RICHARD K. DE ATLEY in the Riverside Press -- 1/19/11
Obama Benefits in Having Palin as His Foil -- There was Sarah Palin again Monday, assuring Sean Hannity on Fox News that she was not going to be silenced, no matter what abuse might come her way. MATT BAI in the New York Times -- 1/19/11 Obama moves to weed out burdensome federal rules -- The president's executive order for a government-wide review of regulations is an attempt to mollify business leaders as well as to bypass a hostile Congress. Peter Nicholas and Jim Puzzanghera in the Los Angeles Times -- 1/19/11
No Fifth Term for Lieberman -- Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 2000 who later became deeply alienated from his party, will announce on Wednesday that he will not seek a fifth term, according to people he told of the decision. DAVID M. HALBFINGER and RAYMOND HERNANDEZ in the New York Times -- 1/19/11 Conrad retirement boosts GOP Senate hopes -- Sen. Kent Conrad’s decision to pass on a shot at a fifth term in North Dakota Tuesday gives a serious boost to Republicans’ chances of regaining the Senate majority in 2012, even though the election is a full 22 months away. DAVID CATANESE Politico -- 1/19/11 Writers Are Asked Not to Talk About Author of ‘O’ -- The publisher of “O,” an anonymously written novel about a 2012 presidential campaign, made a brazen request of journalists and other writers in an e-mail on Tuesday: if anyone asks whether you are the author, please decline to comment. JULIE BOSMAN in the New York Times -- 1/19/11 |
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