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Governor Says His Revised Budget in May Will be “Fully Balanced”
Gov. Jerry Brown said April 5 he would offer a revised budget plan in May that balances – mainly through more than $13 billion in additional spending cuts.
Speaking to a Sacramento conference of the California Medical Association, the Democratic governor told the doctors the state was “facing a real challenge” but that despite stalled budget negotiations with Republicans, “breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.” Read more »
Changes Sought to State’s Religious Freedom Protections
Among the initiatives seeking signatures for placement on the ballot is “The Free Exercise of Religion.”
Its sponsor is Yes Jesus is Lord.Org. Below the group’s name on the stationary of the letter seeking title and summary from the state Attorney General for the measure is a portion of the King James Version’s Philippians 2:11. Read more »
End To State Aid Crippling, Say California’s Network of Fairs
One of the victims of the $11.2 billion in state spending cuts signed by Gov. Jerry Brown is the state’s network of fairs that will no longer receive $32 million in subsidies.
Restoration of that money is on a list of actions Republicans want Brown to take before they agree to have two of their members in each house vote to place a five-year extension of set-to-expire taxes on the ballot. Read more »
Property Rights Group Urges End to Redevelopment Agencies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 31, 2011
The Institute for Justice—the nation’s leading legal advocate against eminent domain abuse—is calling on Republicans in the California Legislature to approve a proposal currently before them that would eliminate more than 400 redevelopment agencies across the state.
The Institute sent a letter to Republicans today urging them to set aside partisan politics and focus on protecting the private property rights of California’s hard-working home, small business and farm owners. Read more »
The Three-Generation Saga That Created Moraga
The City of Moraga is named after the builder of the 1841 adobe on the knoll above Orinda’s Miramonte High School.
It’s the oldest building in Contra Costa County. And looked every year of it in 1935.
Joaquin de la Santisima Trinidad Moraga, who called the adobe home, was the third generation of one of California’s most notable pioneer families. Read more »
Today’s Latin Lesson Is a Good Legislative Goal
Ne Plus Ultra
“The Highest Point Attainable or Attained.”
Don’t Saturate Lawns But California’s Drought Officially Over
(Editor’s Note: A March 17 article in the Capitol Weekly, penned by the chief correspondent of California’s Capitol, noted that despite the state’s strong hyrdrologic condition, California was officially still in a drought because a February 27, 2009 executive order by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared the state in a drought emergency. Read more »
GOP Demands Lead a Testy Jerry Brown to Halt Budget Talks
A seven-page document generated by Republican legislators made public March 25 is a key reason why, four days later Gov. Jerry Brown has called a halt to budget talks with the GOP.
This voluminous list, posted by the Los Angeles Times, catalogues what Republican negotiators want in return for two of their members in each house voting to place before voters the question of extending $12 billion in taxes for five years. Read more »
The First Dog Cometh and, Shortly Thereafter, Goeth Away
(Editor’s Note: The chief correspondent of California’s Capitol was recently inside the Governor’s Office, obtaining a new press credential for which, mercifully, an extensive background report is not required. He files this report:)
Standing in the hallway and chatting with a friend near the Governor’s Press Office – the rooms previously occupied by First Lady Maria Shriver and her staff – an unescorted corgi waddles around a corner from another office. Read more »
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