Thursday, August 14, 2008
- The ATR Pledge and Governor Schwarzenegger's Sales Tax Increase Proposal
- A Tax Increase Is A Tax Increase
- SacBee: Perata's talk of budget compromise goes poof
- CapWkly: Old ideas percolate anew in state budget discussion
- LAT: Subprime lenders get hefty tax break under Schwarzenegger plan
- SacBee: Federal medical receiver wants $8 billion for California prisons
- SJMerc: Prison health care bill: $8B
- StockRec: Prison care suit targets billions
- VentStar: Kelso asks for court order for $8 billion It would go for prison hospitals
- LADN: $8 billion sought for California prisons
- SDUT: Court asked to take hold of $8 billion for prisons
- CapWkly: Greenhouse gas institute slips under the radar
- CapWkly: Knock, knock--they're coming to take your softener!
- LAT: Baby bottles, metal theft among targets of California bills
- SFChron: Budget standoff sidetracks update of rail bond
- SacBee: High-speed rail bill put on side track
- FresBee: Assembly OKs high-speed rail bill
- CapWkly: Show me the money: Pro fund-raisers play key Capitol role
- CapWkly: Tribes, bingo operators at war
- CCTimes: Republicans want more aggressive forest thinning
- SJMerc: State burning through fire budget at breakneck clip
- SFChron: State top court to review medical pot limit
- CapWkly: Personnel Profile: Bobby Shriver
- WashPost: Republicans' Fortunes Falling in Nevada
- McCain hints at pro-choice running mate
- McCain not ruling out pro-choice VP
- LAT: Pelosi joins Democrats softening stance against offshore drilling
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The Golden Pen
HumEvnts: Why do we Tolerate Mexican Troop Incursions? - OCReg: California Focus: Storm clouds of debt gather on the horizon
- CapWkly: Reforming redistricting: Let independent citizens draw the lines
- SFChron: Boxer bullies Senate's birthing doc
- WSJ: I See Four Key Battleground States
- SacBee: Mayoral-race friction pops up in Sacramento City Council sessions
- SacBee: Some in Delta mobilize to oppose peripheral canal proposal
- SacBee: The Public Eye: Embattled library chief hires PR firm to manage crisis
- SacBee: Drivers give wildest excuses for violating new cell phone law
- CapWkly: Developer says he wasn't paying Half Moon Bay's lobbying bills
- CCTimes: School board races set for November
- BakCal: 52,000 people, not one council challenger. What's the deal?
- LAT: Compromise gets a proposed L.A. County sales tax hike to pay for transit projects one step closer to November ballot.
- LAT: Port funds could be diverted
- OCReg: Police agencies beef up security for presidential forum
- OCReg: Cheney asset or liability? Sides weigh in on VP's O.C. visit
- OCReg: S.A. candidate takes on 'Mafia' and 'Puppetmasters'
- LAT: Designers underestimate Orange County Great Park building costs, firm says
- OCReg: La Palma hopes to tone down loud house colors
- IVDB: Election code differs in cities
- RivPE: Postmus: S.B. County chairman trying to 'destroy me' with statement on drug allegations
- DesertSun: New voter numbers challenged
- SDUT: Chicken challenges Bilbray on debates
- SDUT: Democrats, colleagues lend councilman support
- SDUT: Ballots are shaping up for election in the fall
- SDUT: Cheney drops by base for tour of operations