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California Supreme Court to fast-track ruling on Senate maps -- The California Supreme Court expects to rule "as early as the end of January" on which state Senate districts would apply to next year's state elections if a referendum challenging newly drawn maps qualifies for the November ballot. Jim Sanders SacBee Capitol Alert -- 12/10/11 Myers: Reporter's Notebook: From Budget Cash to Court Clash -- Few things make eyes bleary and heads throb more than reading government ledger sheets and complex, legalese court rulings. Throw in some minutiae about best budget practices and gubernatorial style... and you've got a full week. John Myers Capitol Notes -- 12/10/11 San Francisco campaign-finance rules may get overhaul -- A public campaign-financing plan that cost San Francisco more than $4.6 million and counting for this year's mayoral race may be changed to make it tougher for would-be candidates to quality for city cash. John Wildermuth in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 12/10/11 Part-time status proposed for California Legislature -- California's Legislature would become part-time under a constitutional amendment proposed Friday by a Republican lawmaker and the head of a political watchdog group. Jim Sanders in the Sacramento Bee -- 12/10/11 Jeffe: Newt Could Sink CA for GOP -- I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: California could wind up playing a decisive role in the GOP Presidential nominating process. This time, the possibility is real. Sherry Bebitch Jeffe NBC LA Prop Zero -- 12/10/11 Billionaire 'playboy' has a $20 million vision to save California -- He's a little like Bruce Wayne without the cowl, Thomas Crown without the thievery, Howard Hughes without the planes (or the weirdness). Now Nicolas Berggruen is trying to do what even a superhero governor couldn't: Save California. Josh Richman in the Contra Costa Times -- 12/10/11 Prisons dept. makes strides toward meeting court crowding order -- State prison officials announced Friday that they are converting a Chowchilla women’s prison into a low-to medium-security men’s lockup, the latest step in an ongoing effort to ensure California complies with a U.S. Supreme Court order to reduce its prison population. Marisa Lagos in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 12/10/11 California's county jails struggle to house influx of state prisoners -- Overcrowding forces the early release of some county jail inmates because of the so-called prisoner realignment. Another alternative is electronic monitoring of some low-level offenders. Richard Winton and Andrew Blankstein in the Los Angeles Times -- 12/10/11 CalAccess database for campaign money crashes again ... and again -- Want to know how much oil companies are donating to your local assemblyman? How much the tobacco industry is spending on lobbying? Good luck. Patrick McGreevy in the Los Angeles Times -- 12/10/11 A park, a school — and a lot of wasted money -- L.A. spent more than $600,000 designing and building a pocket park in South Los Angeles. But the school district is now using the land for a much-needed campus. Exasperated neighbors wonder why neither side knew what the other was doing. Jessica Garrison in the Los Angeles Times -- 12/10/11 Jean Quan's crime plan faces obstacles, skeptics -- Nearly two months after Oakland Mayor Jean Quan unveiled her plan to restore order and safety to what she said are 100 of the city's most violent blocks, her administration refuses to name the 100 blocks or detail how it will increase safety. Matthai Kuruvila in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 12/10/11 Poseidon asks to sell up to $780M in tax-exempt state bonds -- Poseidon Resources, developer of a desalination plant in Carlsbad, is asking the state to approve a sale of up to $780 million in tax-free bonds to help finance its construction ---- $250 million more than its original request two years ago. BRADLEY J. FIKES in the North County Times -- 12/10/11
UC Davis protesters dismantle tent camp as winter break arrives -- In the end, the calendar did what the UC Davis police force could not. Ed Fletcher in the Sacramento Bee -- 12/10/11 Occupy supporters ask union members to join march on port -- Members of the Occupy Oakland movement held a news conference Friday in hopes of gaining support from union members and residents for a planned Monday attempt to shut down the Port of Oakland. Paul J. Rosynsky in the Contra Costa Times -- 12/10/11 City sends letter to public about Occupy Claremont encampment saying it's no violation of ordinance -- The city will not remove an Occupy encampment stationed outside of City Hall anytime soon. Residents have requested Claremont officials use the city's camping ordinance to break up Occupy Claremont, which consists of a couple of tents. Wes Woods II in the Inland Daily Bulletin -- 12/10/11 Rose Parade security beefed up as Occupy plans protest -- Authorities are beefing up security for the Tournament of Roses Parade this year but hope a planned Occupy protest will be peaceful and not disrupt the event. Joe Piasecki in the Los Angeles Times -- 12/10/11
California still an expensive place to live -- California's housing market may be in the dumps along with its economy, but it's still a very expensive place in which to live, a new nationwide comparison indicates. Dan Walters SacBee Capitol Alert -- 12/10/11 Oakland mayor hopes to woo Warriors, A's with 'Coliseum City' complex -- Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said today she is going to reveal the plans for "Coliseum City" -- a sports and entertainment complex -- and the Warriors are excited about the potential. Marcus Thompson II in the Contra Costa Times -- 12/10/11 SpaceX poised to make history with space station docking -- Hawthorne-based commercial space venture SpaceX is set to send its Dragon space capsule to dock with the $100-billion International Space Station -- a feat that's been accomplished only by the world's wealthiest nations. W.J. Hennigan in the Los Angeles Times -- 12/10/11 Six Wal-Mart heirs are wealthier than U.S.' entire bottom 30% -- Does an annual income of $150,000 make a person rich? Depends on whom you ask. As Americans fret over how to tax the rich and Occupy protesters rail against the 1%, new reports find that the definition of wealth is a tenuous one. Tiffany Hsu in the Los Angeles Times -- 12/10/11
Parcel tax helps Davis music programs grow -- Participation in orchestral and other music programs in the Davis Joint Unified School District is booming. Edward Ortiz in the Sacramento Bee -- 12/10/11
Nurse who contracted HIV with jab sheds anonymity -- Mary Magee is Jane Doe. Twenty-four years ago she was a young nurse, just two months into a job on San Francisco General Hospital's HIV/AIDS ward, when she accidentally stuck herself with a needle while changing a patient's intravenous line. Erin Allday in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 12/10/11
Napa River restoration project serves as model -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's top man in the region shook his head after tromping through a restored Napa River floodplain and then motoring on a boat through one of the nation's premier riparian revitalization projects. Peter Fimrite in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 12/10/11 Dirty air triggers Valleywide ban on burning -- The air this week was filled with soot and tiny specks, triggering a wood-burning ban Friday for all eight Valley counties from Stockton to Bakersfield. It was the first Valleywide burning ban this fall. Mark Grossi in the Fresno Bee -- 12/10/11 Google founders offer '100 percent' funding to save Hangar One, but no word back from NASA -- Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt -- the CEO, co-founder and executive chairman of the Web search giant, respectively -- have, through a company they control, proposed paying the full $33 million cost of revamping the iconic hangar. But there's a catch: They want to use up to two-thirds of the floor space of the hangar to house their fleet of eight private jets. Troy Wolverton and Kristen Marschall in the San Jose Mercury -- 12/10/11 Facebook must pay Menlo Park millions of dollars if it can't improve Bayfront Expressway -- Menlo Park could collect millions of dollars from Facebook in five years if the social networking company can't improve intersections along the Bayfront Expressway to ease the traffic congestion its proposed expansion is expected to create. Bonnie Eslinger in the San Jose Mercury -- 12/10/11
City panel formed to investigate clear-cutting of trees in Sacramento park -- Faced with a large homeless camp near an old city landfill on the American River, Sacramento city officials chose a drastic response: chop down an acre of trees sheltering the campers. Ryan Lillis in the Sacramento Bee -- 12/10/11 Medical marijuana initiative delayed -- An association of medical marijuana collectives that intended to unveil a city ballot measure this week postponed those plans over a few outstanding legal questions. Christopher Cadelago in the San Diego Union-Trib -- 12/10/11 Candidates for Thunder Valley tribe council effectively banned from voting -- One of America's wealthiest casino tribes will convene today in a strange and bitter tribal council election – with two candidates banned from tribal lands and effectively barred from voting. Peter Hecht in the Sacramento Bee -- 12/10/11
Reality and Re-election Sharpen Obama’s Zigzags -- President Obama thrilled liberals on Tuesday when, blending Theodore Roosevelt with Occupy Wall Street, he renewed his commitment to temper untrammeled, “you’re on your own” capitalism. JOHN HARWOOD in the New York Times -- 12/10/11
Dem ads target House GOP on payroll tax -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says it is launching a paid advertising campaign to pressure House Republicans to approve an extension of the payroll tax cut. Russell Berman The Hill -- 12/10/11 Trump might scrub his GOP presidential debate -- Business mogul Donald Trump said Friday he might scrub a presidential debate that so far has drawn only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. AP -- 12/10/11 |
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