A former San Bernardino County legal counsel’s year off is the example that leads supervisors to put a cap on such benefits

BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com

Published: 05 January 2012 10:12 PM

Until November 2010, top San Bernardino County employees could rack up an unlimited number of vacation, holiday or administrative hours.

The policy allowed them to stockpile vacation time and earn large payouts when they left the county, said Supervisor Neil Derry, who proposed the cap.

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Josh Dulaney, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/05/2012 05:29:17 PM PST

An administrative law judge from the U.S. Department of Labor has ruled in favor of a San Bernardino man who says he was wrongfully fired from an aircraft maintenance company that he worked for at San Bernardino International Airport.

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Staff Reports
Created: 01/05/2012 05:38:23 PM PST

Assemblyman Tim Donnelly on Thursday said he was assaulted and threatened on Dec. 26 by a man in Rancho Cucamonga due to his opposition to the Dream Act.

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Wes Woods II and Sandra Emerson, Staff writers
Created: 01/05/2012 03:34:25 PM PST

UPLAND – A week later: It’s still open.

Medical marijuana collective G3 Holistics Inc. continues to be open for business, but it may not be so for long.

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By Michael B. Marois and James Nash – Jan 5, 2012 9:01 PM P

California (STOCA1) Governor Jerry Brown proposed a budget that would lop off the equivalent of three weeks from the public school year if voters reject his proposal for $7 billion in temporary tax increases.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
January 5, 2012

California’s top Senate Democrat today shut the door on Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal to make deep cuts to social services programs in the first few months of the year.

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Dan Walters

By Dan Walters
Published: Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A

The state Constitution requires governors to unveil their proposed budgets for the next fiscal year by Jan. 10.

Jerry Brown’s 2012-13 proposal was hastily released Thursday, five days before its scheduled delivery, after it inadvertently found its way onto a state website.

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Money & Politics | Daily Report
January 6, 2012 | Will Evans

Behind the legislative record of newly chosen Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff is a host of special interests that have funded his campaigns and given him expensive gifts.

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