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California bill to regulate medicinal marijuana put on hold -- Assemblyman Tom Ammiano today canceled a scheduled Senate committee vote on Assembly Bill 2312, saying he has decided to allow the Businesses, Professions and Economic Development Committee to hold more committee hearings and issue a report on the issue after the legislative session adjourns. Torey Van Oot SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/25/12 Kamala Harris 'pleased' with Supreme Court immigration decision -- California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris on Monday praised the U.S. Supreme Court for striking down key parts of Arizona’s immigration law. Patrick McGreevy LA Times PolitiCal$ -- 6/25/12 Supreme Court immigrant decision draws mixed reaction in L.A. -- Immigration advocates and attorneys gave a mixed response Monday to the Supreme Court decision that struck down most of Arizona’s law targeting illegal immigrants but upheld a clause that allowed police to stop, question and detain immigrants based on their legal status. Melissa Leu in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/25/12 Farm workers prepare to push Jerry Brown on overtime rules -- Two years after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation that would have given California farm workers the same overtime benefits most other wage earners receive, the United Farm Workers union is preparing to try again with Schwarzenegger's successor, Gov. Jerry Brown. David Siders SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/25/12 California budget includes harsher school-year trigger cut -- A new education budget bill allows schools to cut 15 days in each of the next two school years if voters reject additional taxes on sales and income in November, double what Gov. Jerry Brown proposed in his May budget plan. Kevin Yamamura SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/25/12 Plan would freeze UC, CSU fees if voters pass tax -- Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic leaders have come up with a plan to freeze tuition rates at California's public universities if voters approve a tax hike in November, the Senate leader said Monday. JUDY LIN Associated Press -- 6/25/12 Fox: California Forward Waits and Waits -- Is today the day the Secretary of State will announce if the California Forward governance reform initiative has the signatures necessary to appear on the November ballot? Time is running out. The constitutional deadline for achieving ballot status is Thursday. Supporters of the measure are demanding to know why the count is not done yet. Joel Fox Fox & Hounds -- 6/25/12 Stockton faces end of mediation, weighs bankruptcy -- Stockton, the California city with the nation's second-highest foreclosure rate, is facing a moment of decision on whether to become the biggest city to file for bankruptcy, as a deadline for talks between the city and its creditors approached late Monday. GOSIA WOZNIACKA Associated Press -- 6/25/12 Why people hate Congress — in one chart -- Congressional approval has resided in used car salesman/reporter/trial lawyer territory for the better part of the last few years as members of the House and Senate are increasingly regarded as out-of-touch by the men and women who elect them. Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post -- 6/25/12
Supreme Court gives split verdict on Arizona immigration law -- The court upheld the most controversial part of the law, which allows law enforcement officials to verify a person’s legal status when they’re stopped on suspicion of committing a separate offense. But the court sided with the Obama administration on three of the four specific challenges, and said the “show me your papers” section could be challenged again when it is implemented. Sam Baker and Jonathan Easley The Hill -- 6/25/12 UC student groups: Budget will contain UC, CSU tuition freeze -- The state budget will freeze tuition rates for the state's two university systems if voters approve tax hikes in November, University of California student groups said this evening. Kevin Yamamura SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/25/12 New pro-business super PAC sidesteps state GOP -- With the California Republican Party's registration declining, its prospects dim and major donors panicked, two powerhouse GOP fundraisers have boldly sidestepped the party and launched an independent state super PAC to raise millions in unlimited contributions aimed at electing business-friendly candidates to the state Legislature this year. Carla Marinucci in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/25/12 Walters: California lawmakers now face water, pensions, bullet trains -- With the state budget more-or-less completed for the time being, Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislators must turn to other business, particularly to three very big and very immediate issues – water, pension reform and the bullet train – that may be even more contentious than the budget. Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/25/12 Skelton: California GOP sinking into third-party status -- 'There's no middle,' says a longtime Santa Cruz County Republican who has joined the more than one-fifth of registered voters who have no party preference. George Skelton in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/25/12 Rally targets Koch brothers' political influence -- A group of about 15 left-leaning protesters gathered in downtown San Diego on Sunday morning to criticize the political influence of the billionaire Koch brothers. Mike Lee UT San Diego -- 6/25/12 Orlov: L.A. Council's vote on district boundaries a result of hardball politics -- It was one of the most blatant examples of hardball politics seen at Los Angeles City Hall in some time. City Council President Herb Wesson turned aside requests by members Jan Perry and Bernard Parks to allow public testimony on new political maps for the council. Rick Orlov in the Los Angeles Daily News -- 6/25/12 State appellate justices at center of conflict-of-interest concerns -- Two California appellate court justices may have violated state conflict-of-interest rules by hearing a multimillion-dollar case involving Boeing Co. while they owned stock in the company, according to court documents and financial disclosure forms obtained by The Bay Citizen. JENNIFER GOLLAN Bay Citizen -- 6/25/12 Schrag: Bad News: We’re No Longer the Nation’s Biggest Nuts -- It’s just a half-century since California was widely regarded as the nation’s cradle of kookiness. It was because of the sunshine, famously said Jesse Unruh, the “Big Daddy” speaker of the Assembly in the 1960s, that we grow so many fruits and nuts. Peter Schrag Cal Progress Report -- 6/25/12 CalBuzz: Dems’ Idiocy on Pensions Recalls ’70s Tax Fiasco -- Not since the disco era, when a young Jerry Brown and a tone-deaf Legislature dithered away their chance to head off Prop. 13, has Sacramento seen such a spectacle of fatuous folly as legislative Democrats now display over pension reform. Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine CalBuzz -- 6/25/12 Issa: No evidence White House covered up 'Fast and Furious' fallout -- House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa said Sunday that he has no evidence the White House was involved in what could be a Justice Department "cover up” to contain fallout from the botched “Fast and Furious” operation. Kathleen Hennessey in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/25/12
Farmers opposing high-speed rail get good legal news -- Three environmental lawsuits rooted in the central San Joaquin Valley challenging high-speed rail plans got a boost last week when Gov. Jerry Brown dropped efforts to limit legal challenges to the controversial project. Tim Sheehan in the Fresno Bee -- 6/25/12
City in California Nears Bankruptcy -- Stockton, Calif., is set to declare bankruptcy as early as this week, according to local officials, a move that would make it one of the largest U.S. cities ever to file for reorganization. BOBBY WHITE in the Wall Street Journal$ -- 6/24/12 Google's Larry Page says 'nothing seriously wrong' -- Google CEO Larry Page took the unusual step this week of sending an email to reassure employees that he's not seriously ill, after Google announced Page missed the company's annual shareholder meeting because he lost his voice. Brandon Bailey in the San Jose Mercury -- 6/25/12 California among 5 states with highest average car repair bills -- California, Wyoming, Utah, Montana and Arizona have the highest average car repair costs, a study by CarMD.com finds. These states are also home to half the nation's top driving destinations. Hugo Martín in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/25/12
Fensterwald: First, keep the lights on -- Given more control over how they could spend state money, school districts not surprisingly chose survival over experimentation. And if legislators want otherwise – to encourage districts to innovate or target money on low-achieving students – then they should be more explicit about their intentions. John Fensterwald educatedguess -- 6/25/12 Spending, governance questions still dog migrant worker ed program -- For the first time in decades, a troubled parent advisory panel representing migrant farmworkers has completed its primary mission to provide a report to the state superintendent of schools on their community’s K-12 educational needs. Tom Chorneau SI&A Cabinet Report -- 6/25/12 LAUSD will not close continutation schools -- Thirteen continuation high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District - including two locally - will not be closed as initially proposed, schools officials said last week. Rob Kuznia in the Torrance Daily Breeze -- 6/25/12 Debt-ridden ICEF spent nearly $1.4 million on harassment claims -- Amid financial struggle, the charter school organization settled three sexual-harassment claims filed against a high-profile teacher. Howard Blume in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/25/12 Long Beach City College tries an alternative to placement tests -- The two-year college is making some placement decisions based on new students' high school grades instead of their scores on a standardized exam. Carla Rivera in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/25/12 Accrediting agency questions culinary school's job placement rates -- One of the agencies that accredits San Francisco's California Culinary Academy is questioning the veracity of the college's reported job placement rates – ordering the school's parent company to provide audited placement data by September in order to maintain its accreditation status. Erica Perez California Watch -- 6/25/12
Proposed mandate on immunization triggers new fight over old issue -- Prompted by recent outbreaks of pertussis and other communicable diseases, a new effort is taking shape in Sacramento to restrict the number of unimmunized students while reigniting the ongoing debate of parental rights versus government oversight. Kimberly Beltran SI&A Cabinet Report -- 6/24/12 State cut dooms Sacramento County's in-home care task force -- Sacramento County is eliminating a task force responsible for oversight of In-Home Supportive Services, once called an "ATM for fraud" by a grand jury. Brad Branan in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/25/12
Solar panels at LAUSD schools convert Valley's blazing sun into energy -- When triple-digit temperatures hit Woodland Hills this summer, Alma Aguirre isn't going to be thinking about her vehicle baking in the parking lot at Taft High, but the electricity generated by the solar panels covering the school's new carport. Barbara Jones in the Los Angeles Daily News -- 6/24/12
South San Francisco ferry loaded with subsidies -- That new ferry line to South San Francisco opened to a lot of fanfare, offering rides to and from Oakland and Alameda in less than 55 minutes. Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/25/12
Romney shows his softer side -- A series of campaign appearances by Mitt Romney and his family appear designed to show the candidate in a softer light and counter one of President Obama’s strengths. Justin Sink The Hill -- 6/25/12 |
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