Archive for December 21st, 2016

The Sacramento Bee: CalPERS moves to slash investment forecast. That means higher pension contributions are coming.

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  • Posted December 21, 2016 at 10:59 am

By Dale Kasler
Business & Real Estate
dkasler@sacbee.com
December 20, 2016 – 5:17 PM

The cost of that government pension is about to go up again, for California taxpayers as well as some public employees.

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Filed under: Budget, CalPERS, Cities, Counties, Finance, In the News, Local Government, Pension Funds, Pensions, State of California

The Sacramento Bee: California Supreme Court blocks new law to speed up death penalty

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Voters passed Proposition 66, a ballot measure that aims to speed up the death penalty. No one has been executed in California since 2006 because of legal challenges to the lethal injection protocol. (Manny Crisostomo/Sacramento Bee file)

By Alexei Koseff
Capitol Alert
akoseff@sacbee.com
December 20, 2016 – 3:04 PM

A new voter-approved law intended to speed up California’s fractured death penalty system will not take effect while a court considers a lawsuit from its opponents.

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Filed under: Courts, In the News, Law Enforcement, Legal, State of California, State Supreme Court

Los Angeles Times: L.A. County politicians and donors had the most campaign law violations in California this year

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Patrick McGreevy
California politics
Dec. 20, 2016 – 3:23 p.m.

Los Angeles County had more cases of politicians and others successfully prosecuted for violating campaign finance and ethics rules than any other county in California this year, the state Fair Political Practices Commission reported Tuesday.

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Filed under: Campaigns, County of Los Angeles, Elections, Fair Political Practices Commission, In the News, Politics, State of California