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Lawmakers and landlords: More than a quarter of California legislators are bothApril 18, 2019 at 2:01 PM  Tags: California, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sport, Soccer, California Apartment Association, Carlton, Santa Monica, State, Capitol, Legislature, Assembly, Alameda, Gloria, Singh 148 people like this. Like Battles over local tax measures heat upApril 18, 2019 at 12:00 PM A change in the governor’s office and expanded Democratic supermajorities in the Legislature have emboldened long-frustrated advocates of increasing taxes to expand health, welfare and education services.
The California Tax Foundation calculates that bills already introduced this year would raise Californians’ taxes by $6.2 billion a year with others to come.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is clearly not tax-averse, since he’s proposed a new tax on water to finance improvements to substandard local water sys...Tags: Supreme Court, California, Opinion, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sport, Soccer, Lausd, Oakland, Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles Times, Gavin Newsom, Southern California, Capitol, Legislature, Jacobs 4 people like this. Like How California budget ‘trailer bills’ are misusedApril 17, 2019 at 5:58 PM In the jargon of the Capitol, “trailer bills” are measures that accompany the annual state budget – in theory making the changes of law necessary to implement the budget’s fiscal policies.
In practice, they serve another, much different function – to sneakily do things that might otherwise be difficult to do if they were fully exposed in advance to the public.
Because trailer bills are considered part of the budget, they can be enacted with simple majority legislative votes and take effect immed...Tags: Supreme Court, California, Opinion, Senate, Sacramento, Sport, Soccer, Paris, Bill, Department Of Justice, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Brown, Capitol, Legislature, General Fund 17 people like this. Like Anti-charter school bills will scuttle competition, limit choiceApril 17, 2019 at 12:30 AM California’s charter-school movement has made remarkable progress in providing a quality education for some of the state’s neediest students.
However, its long, successful journey — sparked by landmark 1992 legislation that made it relatively easy to start charter schools — has run into an existential threat that has rightly been referred to as “Charter-mageddon” by one news publication.
The Assembly Education Committee, dominated by lawmakers who are allied with the state’s teachers’ unions, re...Tags: California, Opinion, America, Sport, Soccer, Editorials, Paris, Jerry Brown, Oakland, Gavin Newsom, Southern California, Capitol, State Board of Education, California Teachers Association, Tony Thurmond, Assembly Education Committee 17 people like this. Like Texas bill toughening voting crimes advances over protestsApril 15, 2019 at 8:39 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A sweeping Texas bill that would toughen penalties for election-related crimes advanced Monday over protests from civil rights groups who say it punishes voters with jail time for making potentially honest mistakes. The GOP-backed measure, which has now tentatively cleared the Texas Senate, has intensified voting rights battles in the Capitol […]Tags: Texas, News, Ap, Nation, Gop, Capitol, Austin Texas, Texas Senate 15 people like this. Like California’s DMV crisis could make or break Gavin NewsomApril 15, 2019 at 12:00 PM Ambitious politicians like to dazzle us with what Hollywood screenwriters call “high concept” pitches that reduce complex ideas to a few succinct words.
Gavin Newsom is certainly an ambitious politician and is extraordinarily oriented toward high-concept gestures. His latest emerged during a quick trip to El Salvador last week, ostensibly to learn why so many Salvadorans are making arduous treks to the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to gain asylum.
Newsom floated the notion that he and California ca...Tags: Hollywood, California, Opinion, Mexico, San Francisco, Sport, Soccer, DMV, Julian Assange, El Salvador, Jerry Brown, Donald Trump, Bond, Gavin Newsom, Brown, Capitol 23 people like this. Like Bond issue transparency still under assaultApril 14, 2019 at 5:00 PM Two years ago, in a rare display of support for transparency in government finance, the Legislature and then-Gov. Jerry Brown required local governments and school districts to tell voters how proposed bond issues would affect their property taxes.
That would seem to be just common sense and good government, but local officials complained that Assembly Bill 195 would be too difficult to implement. Their real motive, however, was a fear that telling voters that their tax bills would increase migh...Tags: California, Opinion, Sport, Soccer, San Jose, Jerry Brown, Sam Liccardo, Capitol, Legislature, Clippers, Big Bear Lake, Dan Walters, Johnny Khamis, Liccardo, Khamis, Guest Commentary 15 people like this. Like Years of bad rules led to California’s unfixable housing messApril 12, 2019 at 8:00 PM SACRAMENTO – Whenever I write about complex public-policy problems, I hear from readers who ask something like this: “OK, wise guy, if you’re so smart then tell me how we fix the problem.” Unfortunately, there aren’t many vexing issues that can be resolved in an 850-word column or a 50-word email rebuttal. Most of California’s myriad “crises” have been years in the making, and they will take years of unraveling – provided they are fixable at all.
The best example is the state’s housing mess, whi...Tags: California, Opinion, Senate, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sport, Soccer, Bill, Jerry Brown, Vox, Ucla, Gavin Newsom, Bay Area, Southern California, Brown 10 people like this. Like Foxconn is Confusing the Hell Out of WisconsinApril 12, 2019 at 8:50 PM  Tags: Tech, Mit, Wisconsin, Madison, Foxconn, Trump, Capitol, State House, WEDC, Nilay Patel, Josh Dzieza, Hintz, Gordon Hintz, Foxconn Place Madison 74 people like this. Like Foxconn buys building across street from Wisconsin CapitolApril 12, 2019 at 2:49 PM Foxconn Technology Group announced Friday it was buying a six-story office building across the street from Wisconsin's state Capitol to house an off-campus research center it will run as part of a partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Tags: Finance, Article, Wisconsin, Associated Press, Foxconn, Scott Bauer, Capitol, Foxconn Technology Group, FBN, Fbn/markets, Fox-business/markets, Fox-business/industries, Fox-business/markets/mergers-and-acquisitions, Fox-business/industries/industrials, Wisconsin Capitol, Fox-business/features 43 people like this. Like Oklahoma governor tries ‘American Ninja Warrior’ courseApril 12, 2019 at 11:46 AM OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt is taking a shot at the “American Ninja Warrior” obstacle course outside the state Capitol in Oklahoma City. Organizers of the reality television show that features high-level athletes racing through grueling obstacles say the 47-year-old ex-CEO is the first governor to give the course a […]Tags: Television, News, Entertainment, Ap, Nation, American Ninja Warrior, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Capitol, Kevin Stitt 45 people like this. Like House Dems Mark First 100 Days With Triumphs, StumblesApril 12, 2019 at 7:50 AM  Tags: New York, News, Obama, Congress, Washington, Senate, Israel, Georgia, Ap, Chicago, Gop, House, New Jersey, Mitch McConnell, Kansas, Michigan 60 people like this. Like Washington Gun Rights Activists Prep for April 27, 2019, RallyApril 11, 2019 at 9:28 AM  Tags: Guns, Washington Post, Washington, Oregon, Senate, Salem, Republican, Washington State, Seattle, Cleveland, Tacoma, Northwest, City Hall, Nra, Olympia, U S Supreme Court 132 people like this. Like Dueling use-of-force bills spur heated Capitol debateApril 11, 2019 at 4:44 AM Community activists packed the state Capitol on Tuesday as an Assembly committee mulled a controversial measure that would require police officers to conform to a stricter standard before using deadly force.
Assembly Bill 392 by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, is one of two high-profile police use-of-force bills making its way through the Legislature.
Police and activists don’t agree on much, except that the issue has become highly emotional and is in need of legislative action. Police...Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, California, Opinion, Senate, Sacramento, Sport, Soccer, Editorials, San Diego, Weber, Capitol, Assembly, Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, Assembly Public Safety Committee, Legislature Police 5 people like this. Like California job killer bills may be more difficult to killApril 10, 2019 at 11:54 AM For two decades, the California Chamber of Commerce’s annual descriptions of certain legislative bills as “job killers” have framed the Capitol’s sharpest economic conflicts.
The chamber, working in concert with other business and employer groups, has been remarkably successful in modifying or killing the two or three dozen measures that find their way onto the list each year.
Even though most of the bills are carried by the Legislature’s dominant Democrats and are sponsored by some of the party...Tags: California, Opinion, Senate, Sport, Soccer, San Diego, Jerry Brown, Donald Trump, Chamber of Commerce, Brexit, Gavin Newsom, Trump, Brown, Capitol, Legislature, Dan Walters 13 people like this. Like Victims of Pittsburgh synagogue massacre honored in CapitolApril 10, 2019 at 11:36 AM  Tags: News, Ap, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Capitol, Pennsylvania Capitol 83 people like this. Like Water concerns linger at Legislature, Maui mayor reveals past sex assault, DOE accelerates school repairs, tobacco tax hike snuffed out, more news from all the Hawaiian IslandsApril 9, 2019 at 4:54 PM  Tags: Travel, Senate, Hawaii, House, DOE, Waikiki, Maui, Honolulu, Hawaii County, Capitol, Legislature, West Hawaii, State Capitol, Oahu, Mauna Kea, Circuit Court 55 people like this. Like Report highlights abuses, preventable deaths in Minnesota's assisted-living facilitiesApril 9, 2019 at 10:42 AM Senior advocacy groups intensify push at the Capitol for stronger oversight.Tags: Minnesota, Capitol 19 people like this. Like Capitol Investment Corp IV to buy NescoApril 8, 2019 at 7:16 AM Capitol Investment Corp IV said April 8 that it agreed to buy Nesco. Energy Capital Partners is the seller. Financial terms weren’t announced. Nesco provides specialty equipment, parts, tools, accessories and services to the electric utility transmission and distribution, telecommunications and rail markets in North America. Capitol Investment Corp IV is the fourth SPAC from Mark Ein. The deal is reportedly valued at $1.1 billion.
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Capitol Investment Corp. IV to Combine with Nesco
S...Tags: Washington, Trends, Indiana, United States, SEC, New York Stock Exchange, North America, Delaware, Energy Capital Partners, Securities And Exchange Commission, Cic, Reit, Nyse, U S Senate, Arlington VA, Capitol 28 people like this. Like Murder charge sought for driver as CHP officer fatally injured in Lake Elsinore is recalled as ‘beloved sergeant’April 7, 2019 at 7:07 PM  Tags: News, California, La, Sport, Crash, Soccer, Chrysler, Dui, California Highway Patrol, CalTrans, Las Vegas, Homicide, CHP, Riverside County, Winchester, Gavin Newsom 148 people like this. Like Managerial miscues plague California governmentApril 7, 2019 at 5:00 PM Politics being what they are, officeholders habitually pitch new services and projects to their constituents, seeking favorable images that will carry them through their next election.
Viewed through the prism of short-term elective politics, management of existing services and projects is seen as humdrum, lacking political sex appeal. But that neglect ill-serves the public and wastes immense amounts of their money.
It’s why, for instance, that in a state renowned for its advanced technology ind...Tags: California, Opinion, Sacramento, Sport, Soccer, Social Security, DMV, Jerry Brown, Baker, Gavin Newsom, Brown, Capitol, Department of Finance, Dan Walters, Elaine Howle, Howle 14 people like this. Like Black plaintiffs accept 2 new Mississippi Senate districtsApril 5, 2019 at 1:07 PM JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — African American residents who sued Mississippi say they accept legislators’ plan to redraw two state Senate districts in a way that could increase black representation at the state Capitol. A lawsuit filed by black plaintiffs challenges a Senate district stretching from mostly black and poor parts of the rural Delta into […]Tags: News, Mississippi, Senate, Ap, Nation, Delta, Jackson, Capitol, Mississippi Senate 16 people like this. Like Reporter: Rep. Don Young Apologized For Shoving MeApril 4, 2019 at 2:30 PM  Tags: News, Congress, House, Young, Capitol, Sean Duffy, Don Young, Matt Shuham, Zack Brown, Don Yong, Melanie Zanona, Zanona, Twitter Don Young, John Boehner R OH Young 134 people like this. Like The ‘Queer Eye’ Gang Met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy PelosiApril 4, 2019 at 12:51 PM Jonathan Van Ness, Bobby Berk and Antoni Porowski paraded around the Capitol with the two.Tags: News, Nancy Pelosi, Capitol, Antoni Porowski, Gang Met Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Jonathan Van Ness Bobby Berk 30 people like this. Like A crackdown on misuse of taxpayer money?April 4, 2019 at 11:49 AM As documented in this space on several occasions, local government officials throughout California have been thumbing their noses at a state law that prohibits them from using taxpayer funds for political campaigns.
Officials in cities, counties, school districts and special purpose districts routinely hire campaign management firms, often with multi-million-dollar fees, to manage every stage of their ballot measures seeking voter approval of new taxes or new bond issues (which require new taxes...Tags: California, Opinion, Sport, Joe Biden, Soccer, Garcia, Capitol, Legislature, Dan Walters, Bell Gardens, FPPC, Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, Guest Commentary, Political Cartoons California, Fair Political Practices Commission FPPC 2 people like this. Like California politicians disrespect our rightsApril 3, 2019 at 8:06 PM The Constitution’s very specific list of inviolable human rights sets the United States apart from almost every other nation on Earth.
Unfortunately, California’s Democratic politicians tend to ignore the Constitution’s Bill of Rights in their zealous efforts to impose “progressive” dogma on their constituents.
Periodically, therefore, federal judges must remind them that Californians are also American citizens who must have their constitutional rights, even unpopular or politically incorrect on...Tags: Supreme Court, Obamacare, California, Opinion, Sport, Joe Biden, Soccer, United States, New York Times, UC Berkeley, Gavin Newsom, Democratic, Benitez, U S Supreme Court, Capitol, Dan Walters 36 people like this. Like Michelle Williams aids cause of equal pay for equal workApril 2, 2019 at 9:16 PM  Tags: News, Entertainment, Washington, Ap, Nation, Capitol, Creek, Michelle Williams, Dawson 122 people like this. Like Oregon Democrats pursue gun safety measuresApril 2, 2019 at 6:44 PM SALEM, Ore. (AP) — As part of an ambitious Democratic agenda, Oregon lawmakers are considering a range of gun control measures, including a provision that would penalize gun owners who fail to safely store their weapons at home. Advocates from both sides of the aisle flooded the Capitol on Tuesday to weigh in on an […]Tags: News, Oregon, Ap, Northwest, Capitol, SALEM Ore 30 people like this. Like In late night meeting, House Dems take first step on term limits proposalApril 1, 2019 at 10:51 PM More than two dozen House Democrats huddled in a small room in the Capitol late Monday night to discuss the term limits proposal that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to several months ago in exchange for support for her speakership.Tags: Cnn, House, Nancy Pelosi, Capitol 3 people like this. Like House Dems take first step on term limits proposalApril 1, 2019 at 10:51 PM More than two dozen House Democrats huddled in a small room in the Capitol late Monday night to discuss the term limits proposal that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to several months ago in exchange for support for her speakership.Tags: News, House, Stories, Nancy Pelosi, Capitol 3 people like this. Like |
