Thursday, April 28, 2016 – 03:00 p.m.
Republican Front-Runner Donald Trump is firmly in the driver’s seat in reaching a first ballot GOP convention nomination.
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Archive for April 28th, 2016
By Scott Schwebke / Staff Writer
Published: April 27, 2016
Updated: April 28, 2016 – 7:12 a.m.
PLACENTIA – Placentia’s chief financial officer announced her resignation Wednesday amid a criminal investigation into a co-worker’s suspected theft of $4.3 million in municipal funds.
Alene Tchekmedyian and Cindy Chang
April 27, 2016
A top Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department official forwarded emails with jokes containing derogatory stereotypes of Muslims, blacks, Latinos, women and others from his work account during his previous job with the Burbank Police Department, according to city records.
California Republican Party Chairman Jim Brulte addresses the group’s fall convention in Anaheim in September 2015. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Phil Willon
April 27, 2016
Lost in the excitement over the top three GOP presidential candidates dropping by this weekend’s California Republican Party convention in Northern California is a proposed rules change that could have a big impact on the party’s leadership.
California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks at a gathering of political, business and community leaders at the annual California Chamber of Commerce Host Breakfast in May 2015. Brown will release his revised budget proposal next month. (Rich Pedroncelli AP)
Capitol Alert
By Jim Miller
jmiller@sacbee.com
April 27, 2016 – 2:29 PM
- Two-fifths of taxpayers saw gains in average real income from 1995 to 2014, new data show
- That is an improvement over 1994-2013 span, when only top-fifth had real growth
- Average income of top 1 percent almost doubled over past 20 years
The wealthiest Californians paid nearly half of the state’s income taxes in 2014 after seeing an uptick in their average income from 2013, according to updated income distribution data compiled by the state Franchise Tax Board.