Morrell
By PE Politics
on February 2, 2011 12:06 PM
The beginning of every legislative floor session would include a reading from the U.S. Constitution under a resolution introduced by Assemblyman Mike Morrell, R-Rancho Cucamonga.
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Archive for February 2nd, 2011
Emmerson
By PE Politics
on February 2, 2011 11:52 AM
State Sen. Bill Emmerson, R-Hemet, has been named to an advisory board for the University of California’s Sacramento center.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 – 05:45 a.m.
Will the City of Victorville ever learn from its mistakes?
For a city being investigated by the San Bernardino County Grand Jury, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, it doesn’t look like it at this point.
09:46 PM PST on Tuesday, February 1, 2011
By DUANE W. GANG
The Press-Enterprise
Riverside County supervisors Tuesday rejected a money-saving plan to impose a hiring freeze in the Sheriff’s Department and consider reducing patrols in unincorporated areas.
The recommendations, included in a mid-year budget report, were aimed at helping the department overcome a $10 million budget gap by June 30, the end of the current fiscal year. The deficit is part of an overall $31.3 million shortfall facing the county.
Zellerbach
09:42 PM PST on Tuesday, February 1, 2011
By RICHARD K. DE ATLEY
The Press-Enteprise
Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach has started his review of the pending death penalty cases he inherited from predecessor Rod Pacheco, and he already has removed at least one from the list of about 40.
Filed under: Budget, County of Riverside, Courts, Economy, Finance, In the News, Law Enforcement, Legal, Paul Zellerbach
10:00 PM PST on Tuesday, February 1, 2011
By IMRAN GHORI
The Press-Enterprise
Former San Bernardino County Supervisor Paul Biane spent almost twice as much as Janice Rutherford on last year’s race, according to campaign finance statements filed Monday.
However, Rutherford, who went on to defeat the two-term incumbent in the Nov. 3 election, nearly matched Biane in the days leading up to the election.
10:00 PM PST on Tuesday, February 1, 2011
By ALICIA ROBINSON
The Press-Enterprise
Riverside City Council members who drive city-owned vehicles successfully defended that benefit Tuesday, despite Mayor Ron Loveridge’s assertion that, “There are no other cities that I know of where this happens.”
San Bernardino County road work
Repair costing time, business along freeways
Jesse B. Gill, Staff Writer
Posted: 02/01/2011 07:25:51 PM PST
Debbie Davis used the words “crazy” and “outrageous” when she described traffic on the 215 Freeway and how it has affected her life.
Davis, 53, uses the 215 Freeway every day to travel from her home to work, school and to doctor appointments.
Vote may ban sites in unincorporated areas
Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 02/01/2011 05:32:51 PM PST
With narrow exceptions, medical marijuana distribution may soon be banned in unincorporated San Bernardino County.
The county Planning Commission will vote Thursday on whether to turn a moratorium on permits for new dispensaries into a ban on marijuana dispensaries, which would only allow medical marijuana to be distributed at hospitals and other strictly defined providers that opponents of the move say wouldn’t allow for any significant distribution.
Chantal M. Lovell, Staff Writer
Posted: 02/01/2011 07:33:51 PM PST
REDLANDS – The city soon will begin what leaders admitted will be an arduous and painful, but much-needed, task.
With support of the City Council, Councilman Bob Gardner will work in the coming week with city staff and City Manager N. Enrique Martinez to develop a process by which the city will approach budgeting.
Michael J. Sorba, Staff Writer
Posted: 02/01/2011 09:16:56 PM PST
Top officials from Rialto and Colton have made plans to soon meet and discuss mutual concerns such issues as traffic planning and perchlorate contamination as well as possibly settling ongoing litigation.
Filed under: Budget, Cities, Colton, Economy, Environment, Finance, In the News, Legal, Politics, Redevelopment, Rialto
Kevin Modesti, Staff Writer
Created: 02/01/2011 06:42:50 PM PST
Farmers Insurance may have tipped the scales in favor of a football stadium in downtown Los Angeles, dashing hopes of bringing a professional team to the edge of the Inland Valley.
Farmers Insurance has agreed to pay $700 million to attach its name to the proposed downtown stadium.
February 01, 2011 11:11 PM
Brooke Edwards
VICTORVILLE • Before a City Hall packed with Tea Partiers, Mayor Ryan McEachron called Tuesday night for the city to investigate what it will take to remove its 10 red light cameras.
Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
(02-02) 04:00 PST Sacramento – –
A day after Gov. Jerry Brown challenged Republicans to put tax measures on the ballot and chided them for not having an alternative plan, GOP leaders said that proposing a balanced budget is the governor’s job, not theirs.
Filed under: Budget, Democrats, Finance, In the News, Jerry Brown, Politics, Republicans, State Assembly, State of California, State Senate
By Steven Harmon
Contra Costa Times
Posted: 02/01/2011 04:46:51 PM PST
Updated: 02/01/2011 10:06:42 PM PST
SACRAMENTO — Labor allies of Gov. Jerry Brown are actively considering backing moderate challengers in next year’s Republican legislative primary campaigns with the aim of forcing GOP incumbents to think twice about opposing Brown’s plan to push a tax extension measure on the ballot.
Filed under: Campaigns, Democrats, Elections, In the News, Jerry Brown, Politics, Republicans, State Assembly, State of California, State Senate, Unions
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
February 1, 2011 | 10:20 pm
Gov. Jerry Brown took to the radio Tuesday to defend his budget plan asking for a public referendum on extending temporary taxes, and predicted that in the end he would have the votes in the Legislature to place such a measure on the ballot.
Filed under: Budget, Economy, Finance, In the News, Jerry Brown, Politics, Republicans, State of California
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
February 1, 2011
Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed 2011-12 budget has many controversial aspects, but one of the most contentious is his call for eliminating 425 local redevelopment agencies and redirecting about a third of their property tax revenues into other state and local services.
Filed under: Budget, Cities, Counties, Economy, Finance, In the News, Jerry Brown, Local Government, Politics, Redevelopment, State of California
Money & Company
Tracking the market and economic trends that shape your finances.
February 1, 2011 | 10:27 am
Following up on the hullaballoo in the city of Bell, where a Los Angeles Times investigation found council members and administrators receiving six-figure salaries for part-time work, State Controller John Chiang has scurried to unveil salaries of state employees. His office unveiled a new website Tuesday where anyone can look up how much, for instance, an animal control officer is paid in Calaveras County.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com The Sacramento Bee
Published: Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Jerry Brown’s plan to balance the state budget is wonkishly complex and exhibits a certain intellectual elegance.
It would, he says, prioritize the state’s limited resources on the highest-priority programs and services, realign state and local government responsibilities, and temporarily increase some taxes to cope with effects of recession.