Archive for October 14th, 2012

InlandPolitics: Cook receives more Super-PAC help

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  • Posted October 14, 2012 at 12:30 pm

Cook

Sunday, October 14, 2012 – 12:30 p.m.

State Assemblyman Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) received a strong boost to his pretty much invisible campaign last week.

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Filed under: Campaigns, Education, Indian Tribal Governments, National Tea Party Movement, Politics, Republicans, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, State of California, U.S. House of Representatives

The Sun: San Bernardino just one of many cities where cashouts for accrued time off pose problems

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Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/13/2012 03:53:03 PM PDT

Retirement doesn’t just bring a watch for employees leaving many local cities – it can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in cashouts for unused vacation, sick time and other benefits.

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Filed under: Budget, Cities, Finance, In the News, Local Government, San Bernardino, State of California, Upland

Desert Star: ‘Gloves are off’ in fight for county supervisor

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San Manuel Tribal Member James Ramos failed to show at another community forum. This time in Yucca Mesa.

Posted: Saturday, October 13, 2012 5:30 am
By Stacy Moore Hi-Desert Star

YUCCA MESA — Neil Derry, defending his county supervisor’s seat against James Ramos, said the challenger tells lies and doesn’t understand county issues during a speaking engagement Wednesday at the community center here.

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SacBee: Dan Morain: Brown struggles against Mungers

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Dan Morain

By Dan Morain, Senior editor
dmorain@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 1E
Last Modified: Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012 – 9:39 am

Gov. Jerry Brown must be feeling like he has left California and landed in the State of Munger.

It’s not a hospitable place. Mungerland is populated by Molly and Charles Munger, two of nine children of Charles Munger, the billionaire partner of billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

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SacBee: Dan Walters: Jerry Brown’s tax hike in jeopardy

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Dan Walters

By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A

As he began his second governorship last year, Jerry Brown warned that California faced a potential “war of all against all” if the state budget was not fairly balanced, or as the former Catholic seminarian put it in Latin, “bellum omnium contra omnes.”

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