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Californians worried, but Jerry Brown does well in PPIC poll -- Californians are worried about the stagnant economy and are generally sour on the direction the state is headed, but Gov. Jerry Brown gets relatively high marks for his performance to date, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California. Dan Walters SacBee Capitol Alert -- 9/21/11 'Buffett Rule' a bust in California -- The state's over-reliance on taxing the rich has been a disaster during bad times. George Skelton in the Los Angeles Times -- 9/21/11 San Diego moves to shut down 12 pot dispensaries near schools -- The San Diego city attorney Wednesday moved to shut down 12 medical marijuana dispensaries operating within 600 feet of schools. Tony Perry LA Times PolitiCal -- 9/21/11 House rejects temporary funding measure, raising shutdown risk -- The threat of a government shutdown intensified as the GOP-led House failed to muster a majority to approve legislation to fund the government after Republicans insisted that federal disaster aid be paid for with spending cuts elsewhere. Lisa Mascaro in the Los Angeles Times -- 9/21/11 House conservatives revolt on spending bill -- A stopgap spending bill to keep the government funded past Sept. 30 collapsed in the House late Wednesday in a return of the same brinkmanship politics that so soured voters on Congress in the debt fight over the summer. DAVID ROGERS Politico -- 9/21/11 Gallup: Majority now blame Obama for state of U.S. economy -- For the first time in his term, a majority of Americans say that President Obamabears responsibility for the state of the U.S. economy, a new Gallup poll finds. Michael A. Memoli in the Los Angeles Times -- 9/21/11 Prosecutor, councilman to take on Pete Stark -- An East Bay prosecutor and city councilman is announcing today that he’ll challenge Rep. Pete Stark in next June’s primary for the newly drawn 15th Congressional District. Josh Richman Political Blotter -- 9/21/11 Fish tale -- The Fresno jurist who is playing a key role in the legal fights over California water has issued a complex ruling that is all but certain to force federal scientists to go back to the drawing board and rewrite – for the second time in three years – a biological opinion targeting protections for the Chinook salmon and steelhead as they travel through the Delta John Howard Water Wars -- 9/21/11 Gov. Jerry Brown vetoes bill keeping pot-shops away from homes -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday vetoed a bill barring medical marijuana dispensaries from within 600 feet of homes in California, saying it steps on the powers of cities and counties that already have authority to regulate pot shops. Patrick McGreevy LA Times PolitiCal -- 9/21/11 Jerry Brown vetoes parks bill, signs 'infused' spirit, budget bills -- Even though he endorsed the idea, Gov. Jerry Brown today vetoed one of the more innocuous bills of the legislative session, a measure to require the Department of Parks and Recreation to post information on its website before closing a state park. David Siders SacBee Capitol Alert KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI Bay Citizen -- 9/21/11 Jerry Brown plans initiative to guarantee law enforcement funds -- Gov. Jerry Brown said this morning he will put on the November 2012 ballot a constitutional guarantee of funding for law enforcement realignment, the shift of certain offenders from state prisons to local control. David Siders in the Sacramento Bee Marisa Lagos Chronicle Politics -- 9/21/11 Jerry Brown talks shark fins, taxes in Sacramento -- Gov. Jerry Brown promised a series of bill signings and vetoes Tuesday, bemoaning “a legislative machine that is running out of control” as he works through hundreds of bills on his desk. Anthony York LA Times PolitiCal -- 9/21/11 Michael Reagan: I'm 'not crazy enough' to run for U.S. Senate -- Republican Michael Reagan has shot down speculation that he will challenge Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2012, saying he has no plans to jump in the race. Torey Van Oot SacBee Capitol Alert -- 9/21/11 UC Davis unveils major initiative to increase size of student body -- Calling it a response to the dramatic drop in state funding, UC Davis' chancellor today announced a plan to increase the campus' undergraduate population by one fifth, one of the biggest leaps in years. Dale Kasler in the Sacramento Bee -- 9/21/11 Fox: Small Business, State Mandates and SB 469 -- The first question to those seeking the governor's veto of SB 469 at a news conference was a challenge about the bill's effect on small business. Appropriately so. SB 469 is aimed at slowing - some would say stopping - construction of superstore centers such as Wal-Mart and Target Superstores. Joel Fox Fox & Hounds -- 9/21/11 The Solyndra Effect -- In wake of Solyndra's bankruptcy, House Republicans want to cut loan program that helped Tesla Motors open a factory in Fremont. JOHN UPTON Bay Citizen -- 9/21/11 Reports: Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker may be ousted, replaced with Meg Whitman -- Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) board of directors is considering ousting CEO Léo Apotheker after less than a year on the job and replacing him with former eBay (EBAY) CEO and California governor candidate Meg Whitman, two sources familiar with the matter told this newspaper Wednesday. Jeremy C. Owens and Brandon Bailey in the San Jose Mercury -- 9/21/11 Legislation Would End Office Bike Bans -- New legislation would require commercial buildings without secure parking to allow bikes inside. Bryan Goebel Bay Citizen -- 9/21/11 California, here he comes: Texas Gov. Rick Perry returns for fundraising swing..again -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry just barnstormed California this month, hitting six fundraisers in two days – and more than a few “meet and greets” with supporters from north to south in the Golden State. Carla Marinucci Chronicle Politics -- 9/21/11
Poll finds even Republicans would switch initiatives to November election -- Republican legislators in Sacramento are crying foul over an eleventh-hour push to limit future initiatives to November general elections. But the idea behind the union-backed legislation doesn't seem so bad to a majority of GOP voters, according to a new Field Poll. Torey Van Oot in the Sacramento Bee -- 9/21/11 Political Shift in California Trips Brown -- Jerry Brown ran for governor on the argument that his age and experience — the son of a governor, he has spent a lifetime in politics, including two terms as governor himself 30 years ago — was what California needed to rescue it from a spiral of partisanship and financial decline as destructive as anywhere in the nation. ADAM NAGOURNEY in the New York Times -- 9/21/11 Cocktail lovers lobbying Jerry Brown to let bars pour infused spirits -- Cocktail lovers are urging Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a law that would permit bartenders to pour drinks that include "infused" alcohol – booze steeped with fruit, vegetables or herbs to pack an extra kick. Laurel Rosenhall in the Sacramento Bee -- 9/21/11 Republicans likely to abandon referendum on congressional maps -- Republicans backing a voter referendum to overturn California’s new congressional maps are on the verge of dropping the effort, sources say. Malcolm Maclachlan Capitol Weekly -- 9/21/11 Talking jobs in D.C., Mayor Villaraigosa gets cold shoulder from John Boehner -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in town as president of the bipartisan U.S. Conference of Mayors, said that try as he might, he could not get face time with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) to talk job creation. Lisa Mascaro in the Los Angeles Times -- 9/21/11 Darrell Issa to probe government loan programs after Solyndra collapse -- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said that he plans to launch an investigation into government loan programs, in response to the implosion of solar equipment maker Solyndra, which got a $535-million federal loan guarantee in 2009. Neela Banerjee in the Los Angeles Times Andrew Restuccia The Hill -- 9/21/11 Dianne Feinstein donates $5 million of own money to her campaign -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who is up for reelection in 2012, will put $5 million of her own money into her race, the latest sign that a mega-fraud case involving a top Democratic campaign treasurer is roiling California politics. JOHN BRESNAHAN & MANU RAJU in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 9/21/11 The Politics of The L.A. County Redistricting Fight Explained -- With Venn Diagrams! -- Last week, we used pie charts to illustrate the underlying demographic reality of the issue, which is that white people are over-represented on the Board while Latinos are underrepresented -- and that to balance it out, the Board needs to add a Latino seat. Today, we're going to explain why that won't happen. Gene Maddaus LA Weelky -- 9/21/11 CalBuzz: A Bid to Restore George Moscone’s Place in History -- Three decades after the horror, it’s an odd twist of history that the late Mayor George Moscone has become little more than a footnote in popular media narratives about San Francisco’s City Hall assassinations. Dan White, the cowardly ex-supervisor and cop who shot and killed the mayor, then reloaded, walked down the hall and gunned down Harvey Milk, has been the subject of a book, a TV movie and a stage play. Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine CalBuzz -- 9/21/11 Herdt: The alternative to 'Obamacare' is what? -- Give CNN newsman Wolf Blitzer credit: With his provocative question to Rep. Ron Paul at last week's tea party-sponsored GOP presidential debate, he cut through all the blather about health care reform and got to the nut of the issue. What should we as a society do about the uninsured? Timm Herdt in the Ventura Star -- 9/21/11 Parents urge governor to sign measure mandating coverage for autism treatment -- To Jennifer McNulty of Thousand Oaks, there is no question that the intensive behavioral therapy her son, Kyle, received beginning at age 5 was as medically essential as surgery would have been had it been his heart, rather than his brain, that was malfunctioning. Timm Herdt in the Ventura Star -- 9/21/11 Solyndra officials to take the Fifth -- Executives with bankrupt solar company Solyndra will refuse to answer questions at a congressional hearing Friday looking into the company's $528 million government loan, their lawyers reported Tuesday. David R. Baker, Carolyn Lochhead in the San Francisco Chronicle MATTHEW L. WALD in the New York Times -- 9/21/11 San Bruno fills crater, erases a bit of the pain -- The enormous crater that opened when a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. natural gas pipeline blew apart was a wound that scarred the Crestmoor neighborhood for 376 days. Demian Bulwa in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 9/21/11
California sells $2.4 billion of bonds amid falling yields -- California on Tuesday wrapped up its first long-term debt sale of 2011, paying interest rates substantially below what it paid on bonds last November -- a savings for taxpayers. Tom Petruno in the Los Angeles Times David Siders in the Sacramento Bee -- 9/21/11 Boren: Southern California is trying to steal Valley's high-speed rail money -- A secret deal is reportedly being brokered to shift $3.3 billion in federal high-speed rail funds designated for the San Joaquin Valley to Southern California. Those behind the SoCal maneuver are using opposition to HSR by Valley Republican lawmakers as their main talking point: "The Valley doesn't even want this money." Jim Boren in the Fresno Bee -- 9/21/11 Realtors: California home prices to fall before slight rebound in 2012 -- Home sales this year have fallen below expectations, and the California Association of Realtors expects 2012 to be another slow year for the housing market. Andrew Edwards in the San Bernardino Sun -- 9/21/11 State unemployment to remain high, but no recession -- The state's economic outlook is now weaker than it was in June, with slow growth expected until the end of 2012, according to the UCLA Anderson quarterly forecast released Tuesday. Sandra Emerson in the San Bernardino Sun Walter Hamilton in the Los Angeles Times -- 9/21/11 U.S. to have tough time in suits against 17 banks over mortgage bonds -- Federal regulators allege the banks misled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the safety of the bonds. But analysts say the two mortgage giants should have known that the loans behind the bonds were toxic. Jim Puzzanghera in the Los Angeles Times -- 9/21/11
Schools back Brown grab of CRA cash -- Despite facing a potential backlash from City Hall, Los Angeles Unified officials Tuesday voted to side with Gov. Jerry Brown on his plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies throughout the state. Connie Llanos in the Los Angeles Daily News -- 9/21/11 Fensterwald: Meg Whitman funds charter expansion -- GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman vowed to promote the growth of charter schools. Private citizen Whitman made good on the promise Tuesday, donating $2.5 million to Summit Public Schools to start 10 more high-performing charter high schools in low-achieving areas in Silicon Valley, with a promise to double that amount if other tech titans match her $2.5 million. John Fensterwald educatedguess -- 9/21/11 Lopez: Parents aren't ready to quit on L.A. Unified -- Lay off 227 elementary school library aides? Whack the hours of another 190 aides in half and eliminate their healthcare benefits? Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times -- 9/21/11 LA school's cheating prompts new policy for charter group -- All Green Dot charter schools will implement stricter test security procedures in response to the recent disclosure of teacher cheating at one of its Los Angeles-area schools, a district official said. Corey G. Johnson California Watch -- 9/21/11 Students need supervision to make online learning work -- The Fresno Unified School District has figured out a relatively simple way to dramatically increase the pass rates of high school students who enroll in online courses to make up for classes they have failed in a traditional classroom setting. Sue Frey EdSource -- 9/21/11 Universities now urging freshmen to consider studying the forgotten humanities -- On 21st century American campuses, is there room for Shakespeare, Sartre and Sondheim? A declining number of students think so -- a trend that worries leaders at many top universities, where engineers often outnumber humanists. Lisa M. Krieger in the San Jose Mercury -- 9/21/11 Beltran: Schools lose money in wake of pertussis vaccine problems -- Cash-strapped school districts may not have any recourse but to absorb what could add up to millions in lost revenue caused by the absence of thousands of students who were sent home from school last week for not having proper vaccinations – but that could change, state officials said Friday. Kim Beltran SI&A Cabinet Report via Capitol Weekly -- 9/21/11
Fresno County won't pursue health-care funds -- Fresno County supervisors decided Tuesday that the county can't afford to launch a new federally supported health program for the poor, setting back efforts to bring national health-care reforms to Fresno County. Kurtis Alexander in the Fresno Bee -- 9/21/11 Paralyzed patient in major Geron stem cell study -- A Bay Area patient who recently suffered a serious spinal cord injury and is now paralyzed from the waist down joined the world's first-ever embryonic stem cell study in humans last week, when Stanford doctors injected 2 million cells designed to replace damaged neurons in the patient's spine. Erin Allday in the San Francisco Chronicle Lisa M. Krieger in the San Jose Mercury -- 9/21/11 Attorney general denies sale to controversial hospital chain -- In a widely watched decision, the state attorney general's office today denied the sale of Victor Valley Community Hospital to Prime Healthcare Services' nonprofit foundation, saying the sale would not be "in the public interest." Christina Jewett California Watch Andrew Edwards in the San Bernardino Sun -- 9/21/11 Need help with health? There's an app for that -- With dozens, maybe a hundred, fitness apps already competing for consumer attention, the obvious question for King might be, why bother? And the answer is that King, a psychologist at Stanford, wants to find out if this app boom could actually succeed in an area where decades of public health campaigns have failed: getting Americans to take better care of themselves. Erin Allday in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 9/21/11
California earthquake-warning system shows promise -- After years of lagging behind Japan, Mexico and other quake-prone countries, the U.S. government has been quietly testing an earthquake early warning system in California since February. Cochran belongs to an exclusive club of scientists who receive a heads up every time the state shakes. Alicia Chang AP -- 9/21/11 Parts of Delta salmon plan invalidated in court -- A federal judge in Fresno on Tuesday invalidated key parts of a plan to protect endangered winter- and spring-run Chinook salmon and Central Valley steelhead that migrate through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. John Ellis in the Fresno Bee -- 9/21/11
Worker verification bill draws California farmer protests -- A hotly contested bill moving this week would compel employers to verify worker eligibility via the Internet while it ratchets up the nation's perennial immigration debate. Farmers in California and elsewhere fear it. Skeptics sweat potential errors. Michael Doyle in the Sacramento Bee -- 9/21/11 Breton: Let's move beyond America's immigration hostility -- Every time I write about immigration, a certain demographic hurls the same two points at me like jagged rocks. First, that illegal immigrant means illegal immigrant and all "illegals" should be deported. Secondly, that somehow I'm for open borders and lawlessness. Marcos Breton in the Sacramento Bee -- 9/21/11
Study: Medical pot dispensaries don't boost local crime -- A new study casts doubt on many law enforcement agencies' assertion that medical marijuana dispensaries contribute to local street crime. Josh Richman in the Contra Costa Times C.J. Lin in the Los Angeles Daily News -- 9/21/11 'Troubling' frequency of Oakland cops pulling guns -- Oakland police are often too quick to draw their guns, especially when confronting African American suspects, according to a report by a federal court monitor. Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 9/21/11 After realignment, fewer women expected in prison -- Beatrice Smith-Dyer went to Chowchilla prison for killing her abusive husband at the age of 41. Her marriage, she said, was the last in a string of damaging relationships that started when she was a child. Heather Tirado Gilligan HealthyCal.org -- 9/21/11 Sex offenders at state hospital protest ‘violent predator’ designation -- In one unit of Coalinga State Hospital, a few convicts ruled to be sexually violent predators are starting to publicly protest their indefinite incarceration. Ryan Gabrielson California Watch -- 9/21/11 Elder Abuse bill would regulate signature stamps -- Liz Sanders’ elderly mother had a $20 signature stamp that she used for her banking, but that little stamp ended up costing more than $700,000 after a dishonest caregiver got her hands on it. Meda Freeman HealthyCal.org -- 9/21/11 William Ellery McClatchy, 86, last of his generation of newspaper family -- William Ellery McClatchy, a world-class croquet player and the last member of his generation to oversee the family's newspaper business, The McClatchy Co., died Tuesday at age 86. Robert D. Dávila in the Sacramento Bee -- 9/21/11
Shutdown fight looms amid impasse over disaster aid funding -- Republicans and Democrats plunged into another round of brinksmanship on Tuesday as a fight over disaster aid brought the renewed threat of a government shutdown. Russell Berman The Hill Lisa Mascaro and Alexa Vaughn in the Los Angeles Times -- 9/21/11 Marines Hit the Ground Running in Seeking Recruits at Gay Center -- Master Sgt. Anthony Henry, a top Marine recruiting trainer for the southwestern United States, pulled up to Tulsa’s biggest gay community center on Tuesday morning and left his Chevy where he could make a fast getaway. “I have an exit strategy,” he said. “I know where my choke points are, I’ve strategically parked my car right on the curbside, I have an out.” ELISABETH BUMILLER in the New York Times -- 9/21/11 True-blue Google wraps itself in red -- Google has long been known as Barack Obama's BFF: The company and its employees made the top-five list of contributors to the president's 2008 campaign. Its executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, endorsed Obama and donated $25,000 to his inauguration fund. And Obama tapped Schmidt as an unpaid adviser But that's all so 2008. MIKE ZAPLER Politico Politico -- 9/21/11 Twitter to launch political advertising -- Trying to capitalize its status as a hub of the national political conversation, the social networking giant Twitter is beginning for the first time this week to sell political advertising, executives told POLITICO. BEN SMITH Politico -- 9/21/11 |
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