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Absent deal, Legislature sends main budget bill to Gov. Jerry Brown -- On a mostly party-line vote, both houses of the Legislature sent Gov. Jerry Brown a $92.1 billion spending plan Friday without a deal on welfare cuts. Kevin Yamamura SacBee Capitol Alert Chris Megerian LA Times PolitiCal$ JUDY LIN Associated Press Wyatt Buchanan, Marisa Lagos in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/15/12 Transitional kindergarten funding spared under Democrats' budget -- Money for programs aimed at getting youngsters ready for kindergarten will be spared the budget ax under a proposal expected to be passed by state lawmakers Friday. Anthony York in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12
New Obama policy will spare some from deportation -- The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies. ALICIA A. CALDWELL and JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press Christi Parsons and Kathleen Hennessey in the Los Angeles Times$ BEN GOAD in the Riverside Press -- 6/15/12 Oakland: Student protesters at Obama HQ welcome immigration immunity plan -- News that the Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants was welcome to a group of undocumented students who spent the night at the president's Oakland campaign office to protest deportations. Matt O'Brien in the San Jose Mercury -- 6/15/12 Obama interrupted by heckling reporter -- In a surprising breach of normal etiquette, President Barack Obama's Rose Garden remarks on Friday were interrupted by heckling from reporter Neil Munro of the website Daily Caller, where conservative commentator Tucker Carlson is the editor-in-chief. BYRON TAU and DONOVAN SLACK Politico -- 6/15/12 Lopez: Easy to be skeptical about Obama immigration motives -- So who is the real President Obama? The dogged enforcer who stepped up deportation of illegal immigrants and split up thousands of families in the process? Or the one who today did a neat election-year flip and announced an end to the deportation of immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally before they were 16? Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 Young illegal immigrants block freeway ramps, cheer Obama -- More than 100 jubilant college students and graduates -- some of them undocumented -- rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Friday in support of President Obama’s decision to halt deportations of young illegal immigrants. Esmeralda Bermudez in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 Arizona governor calls Obama immigration change 'outrageous' -- Hours after the Obama administration announced a change in immigration policy that would allow some young illegal immigrants to work legally in the United States, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer blasted the order as “blatant political amnesty.” Laura J. Nelson in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 GOP lawmaker announces plans to sue Obama over immigration policy -- Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Friday announced plans to sue the Obama administration over its newly announced immigration policy aimed at keeping illegal youths in the country temporarily if they meet certain standards. Jordy Yager The Hill -- 6/15/12
California Runs With Health Law Without Waiting On Supreme Court -- Many states have done nothing to implement the health overhaul law, saying they'll wait and see how the Supreme Court rules. Not California. PAULINE BARTOLONE Capitol Public Radio -- 6/15/12 Senator wants mitts off tribal proposals -- Sen. Joel Anderson says it is time for state agencies to stop impeding tribal proposals to annex land, citing the Attorney General’s protest against an application by the Sycuan Band of Kumeyaay Nation to use 1,350 acres near El Cajon for housing, an RV Park and equestrian center. Michael Gardner UT San Diego -- 6/15/12 California employers add 33,900 jobs; jobless rate falls to 10.8% -- California’s labor market showed resilience in May, a sign that the state’s slow recovery is still on track. Ricardo Lopez in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 Increase in farm jobs shrinks Fresno County unemployment rate in May -- Big gains in farm employment were augmented by increases in the number of nonfarm jobs to drop the unemployment rate in Fresno County to under 15% in May. Tim Sheehan in the Fresno Bee -- 6/15/12 Sacramento, state unemployment rates dip -- California's job market showed surprising strength last month, driving the unemployment rate down to 10.8 percent, state officials said today. Dale Kasler in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/15/12 Steinberg: CA 'sober' budget will pass today despite differences -- As lawmakers prepare to approve a budget bill today, Senate Democratic leader Darrell Steinberg released a video address defending the plan, but noted that "there are small but important differences to resolve in the coming days" with Gov. Jerry Brown. Dan Smith SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/15/12 GOP howls as Dems move to ram budget through -- As we told you on this blog earlier this week state legislators need to send a budget to the governor by midnight tonight or they lose their paychecks. Doesn’t have to be a good one, a balanced one, even one that Gov. Jerry Brown approves, just a budget, any budget. Chris Knap in the Orange County Register -- 6/15/12 California lawmakers set budget vote as deadline looms -- California lawmakers have scheduled a Friday budget vote on their plan to balance a $15.7 billion deficit as they run up against a constitutional deadline or risk losing their pay. JUDY LIN Associated Press Chris Megerian in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 Lawmakers target violence at community colleges -- Worried about violence on community college campuses, state lawmakers are proposing to make it harder for those who are expelled to enroll in a different college. Patrick McGreevy in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 L.A. mayor touts 'positive' Democratic convention -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, preparing to chair the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina this summer, said his party will offer a vision of "diversity and inclusiveness," including events expected to draw tens of thousands of Americans to the Charlotte Speedway, with a grand finale starring President Obama before 65,000 people. Carla Marinucci in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/15/12 Fox: Pay Attention Business Community: A Proposal to Raise SIX Taxes on Business -- I see in the San Francisco Chronicle op-ed page our old tax-raising friends Lenny Goldberg and Roy Ulrich of the California Tax Reform Association are at it again promoting not one … not two … or even three tax increases — but six! Joel Fox Fox & Hounds -- 6/15/12 Solyndra close to filing bankruptcy plan -- The Fremont-based solar panel manufacturer that received a half-billion dollar loan from the federal government before filing for bankruptcy protection is close to filing a proposal for what to do next. RANDALL CHASE Associated Press -- 6/15/12 Romney steps outside his comfort zone -- Mitt Romney is stepping out of his comfort zone, giving a Sunday morning interview to a network that is not Fox News and conducting a travel-intensive bus tour. Justin Sink The Hill -- 6/15/12 Children born in 2011 to cost $234,900 each to raise -- Children: They bring you untold joy and hope for the future. They also cost $234,900 each to raise. And that doesn’t include college. Tiffany Hsu in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 Tobar: A union job gave her the bootstraps she needed -- Tarita Ventura is a rarity, a female member of the sheet-metal workers union. Her job has rescued her from a life of need and debt. Hector Tobar in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 Norquist wants GOP to reaffirm pledge -- Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist will be on the hill next week talking to Republican members and their staff in a closed-door meeting to give some insight on what the pledge means “as the GOP-led House prepares to take action to both prevent the largest tax hike in history on families and job creators and lay the foundation to pass and enact comprehensive tax reform,” according to an invite obtained by POLITICO. KATE NOCERA POLITICO -- 6/15/12
California lawmakers race to pass a budget bill with little time to read it -- The main budget bill coming before California lawmakers today is a 777-page piece of legislation that spells out how the state will spend billions of dollars over the next fiscal year. Kevin Yamamura in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/15/12 Democrats poised to vote on California budget -- With Friday's constitutional deadline looming, Democrats sent their main budget bill to both floors of the Legislature on Thursday, setting up a showdown with Gov. Jerry Brown over how deep cuts will be made to programs serving California's neediest. Steven Harmon in the San Jose Mercury -- 6/15/12 Walters: New California budget looks a lot like old budgets -- The Legislature's Democratic leaders insist that their new state budget is balanced, honest and contains an adequate reserve. Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/15/12 GOP rehashes California primary, looks to November -- Democrats lost their premier opportunity to gain a California seat in the U.S. House of Representatives by failing to pay closer attention to the 31st Congressional District, National Republican Congressional Committee Deputy Political Director Brock McCleary said. Ben Goad in the Riverside Press -- 6/15/12 Ethics panel investigates state Sen. Mimi Walters -- Inquiry focuses on possible conflict of interest in calls by the legislator's office to state prison officials over a financial claim filed by her husband's company. Patrick McGreevy in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 California lawyers fight back on 'job killer' label with study -- Each year, the California Chamber of Commerce chooses a few dozen bills it and other business groups oppose and labels them as "job killers" for imposing new regulations, business costs or taxes. Dan Walters SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/15/12 State pension funds sticking with JPMorgan despite $2B loss -- The agencies that manage retirement benefits for California teachers and governmental employees are standing by JPMorgan Chase for now despite a recent $2 billion trading loss that has sparked two federal investigations and reignited calls for tougher bank oversight. COREY G. JOHNSON Bay Citizen -- 6/15/12 State could take millions from Rancho Cucamonga Fire District -- After the blow of having lost millions of dollars in redevelopment funds, city leaders expressed further disgust Thursday over news that state lawmakers are considering taking even more money away. Neil Nisperos in the Inland Daily Bulletin -- 6/15/12 Jeffe: Gov. Brown's Taxing Problem -- Prospects for resolving California's budget mess rest squarely on Governor Jerry Brown's relationship with the state's voters. Sherry Bebitch Jeffe NBC LA Prop Zero -- 6/15/12 GOP, not Dems, back Gov. Brown for a change -- Gov. Jerry Brown‘s budget trimming proposal to tighten provisions for CalWORKS – the state’s welfare-to-work program – is being applauded by county Republicans and getting the thumbs down from county Democrats, according to a new OC Political Pulse poll. Martin Wisckol in the Orange County Register -- 6/15/12 work release bill OKed over MADD objections -- Offenders who are sentenced to jail could get credit toward a work release program if they participate in educational, vocational, drug treatment and other programs under a bill approved by the California Senate. DON THOMPSON Associated Press -- 6/15/12
Massive LA County court layoffs to begin Friday -- Squeezed by state budgets cutbacks, the Los Angeles County court system is launching massive job layoffs, pay cuts and transfers, court officials said Thursday. LINDA DEUTSCH Associated Press -- 6/15/12 An L.A. County court for young offenders closes -- Budget cuts force the shutdown of California's only Informal Juvenile and Traffic Court. Some saw it as a dumping ground for problems, but others say it was a speed bump for kids racing toward more serious trouble. Alexandra Zavis and Ashley Powers in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 With more inmates to guard, deputies' overtime hits $32 million -- Poking around in the county's employee payroll database for 2011, we quickly discovered that some sheriff's department employees are pulling in a whole lot of overtime pay. In fact, 65 deputy sheriffs, investigators, and sergeants earned $50,000 or more each in overtime last year. ANDREW GALVIN in the Orange County Register -- 6/15/12 California home sales surge 17.6% in May -- Home sales and prices strengthened throughout the Golden State in May, new reports show, providing the latest evidence housing might be snapping out of its long slumber. Alejandro Lazo in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 Report: Bay Area housing market shows signs of recovery -- The Bay Area's recovery from the housing crisis gathered strength in May, with big gains in sales of all types of homes across the region and price increases in nearly every county. Pete Carey in the San Jose Mercury -- 6/15/12 While Sacramento area still lags rest of state, prices have stabilized, and foreclosure sales are falling -- Sacramento's housing market continued to stabilize in May – but still lagged the recovery picking up speed elsewhere in California. Dale Kasler in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/15/12 Gas prices below $3.80 appear in Southern California -- With averages just above $4, 'drivers should easily be able to find gas stations now charging less than $3.90 a gallon, and a few that are even below $3.80,' an Auto Club spokesman says. Ronald D. White in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12
L.A. Teachers Face New Evaluations -- In the past three years, at least 30 states have begun to use student achievement to evaluate teachers, spurred in part by President Barack Obama's Race to the Top education initiative as well as by some Republican governors. California isn't one of them. ERICA E. PHILLIPS and STEPHANIE BANCHERO in the Wall Street Journal$ -- 6/15/12 Fensterwald: API has served its purpose (if it ever did) -- A court decision this week involving Los Angeles Unified has raised again the contentious issue of evaluating teachers using standardized test scores. John Fensterwald educatedguess -- 6/15/12 UC Santa Cruz students try crowdsourcing research; Kickstarter used to raise funds -- For cash-strapped college students, scraping together enough money to buy a burrito can be a chore. Now try coming up with the money to fund a research trip to Alaska. JASON HOPPIN in the Santa Cruz Sentinel -- 6/15/12 Oakland Unified board orders investigation of church school -- General counsel will examine whether it inflated enrollment numbers to get more taxpayer funding. WILL EVANS Bay Citizen -- 6/15/12 Humanities have a place, even at Caltech -- Although science rules at Caltech, humanities and social sciences courses are 'crucial' to learning how to write and communicate, administrators say. Larry Gordon in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12
Bill seeks to bring down patient costs for cancer pills -- Robert Adler was shocked at 50 when what seemed like pneumonia was actually multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. He was in for another shock when he found out that his first monthly prescription for an oral anti-cancer drug would cost $3,200. CHRISTINA JEWETT Bay Citizen -- 6/15/12
Police response to Occupy Oakland was flawed, report says -- The Oakland Police Department's response to an Occupy Oakland protest in October was flawed by poor planning, inadequate staffing and outdated policies and protocols, an independent study has found. Robert J. Lopez in the Los Angeles Times$ Matthai Kuruvila in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/15/12
California leads U.S. in immigrant entrepreneurship, study finds -- Immigrants own 33% of California's small businesses, the highest share in the U.S., and make up 27% of the state's population. Paloma Esquivel in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 Undocumented students occupy Obama's Oakland headquarters -- A group of undocumented immigrants has occupied President Barack Obama's campaign office in downtown Oakland, refusing to leave until his administration stops deporting students. Matt O'Brien in the Contra Costa Times -- 6/15/12 At U.S. border, expensive drones generate lots of buzz, few results -- An aerial drone, zooming somewhere out of sight high above the cooling scrubland, first spotted the group of nearly two dozen migrants. Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz California Watch -- 6/15/12 Mexican immigrants following homeland's presidential race -- Tens of thousands of Mexicans living abroad are voting by mail in the July 1 election — a race being closely watched as Mexico confronts soaring violence. Daniel Hernandez in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12
IRS seizes bank accounts of Sacramento medical marijuana provider -- The Internal Revenue Service has seized bank accounts it says took in more than $870,000 in cumulative deposits in recent months, part of a federal probe into alleged money laundering involving a Sacramento marijuana dispensary. Peter Hecht in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/15/12 Prisoners receiving poor counseling, report says -- Inadequate staffing is depriving Riverside County jail prisoners of their legally entitled mental health services and compromising fiscal oversight by the internal audit department, according to two civil grand jury reports released Wednesday. DUG BEGLEY in the Riverside Press -- 6/15/12 Funding delays could increase cost of (San Francisco) Central Subway -- For the past six months, as crews have begun preparing to dig a tunnel for the Central Subway, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and city transit officials have assured residents that the federal government will approve $942 million needed to pay for the project. ZUSHA ELINSON Bay Citizen -- 6/15/12 Alameda County judge charged with elder theft -- Alameda County Judge Paul Seeman may have had good intentions when he offered to help the couple that lived across the street from him in Berkeley - an elderly pair with no family, no friends and a home made uninhabitable by years of hoarding. Henry K. Lee in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/15/12
Obama tells Ohio voters they can end stalemate with November vote -- President Obama, in an attempt to reset his campaign after weeks of missteps and setbacks, cast the November election as a chance for voters to break a "stalemate in Washington" between two sharply different philosophies. Michael A. Memoli in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12
Obama and Romney face off across Ohio -- President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney duel from opposite ends of Ohio, a state vital to their November chances, framing the election as a choice between failure and progress. Michael Finnegan and Mark Z. Barabak in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/15/12 Romney Green Energy Fund Draws Fire From Democrats -- Mitt Romney reiterated this week his belief that government shouldn't be "picking winners" in the private sector, and his campaign is pounding away at the argument that the Obama administration did exactly that in its failed investment in the Solyndra solar panel company. SARA MURRAY in the Wall Street Journal$ -- 6/15/12 Inside Koch World -- The Koch brothers’ political operation has increasingly come to resemble its own political party — and later this month in San Diego, it will hold what amounts to its most ambitious convention to date. KENNETH P. VOGEL Politico -- 6/15/12 The Republican family feud -- It turns out Democrats are not the only ones with a surrogate problem. MAGGIE HABERMAN Politico -- 6/15/12 |
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