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Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan gets good early reviews
SACRAMENTO -- Reaction to the budget plan unveiled by Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday was generally positive. Key political and education leaders in Los Angeles immediately endorsed the plan's provisions that would shift more funds to low-income schools and...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Executive Branch, Personal Income, Budgets and Budgeting, Crime, Law and Justice
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California lawmakers approve blank budget bills
One day before Gov. Jerry Brown is scheduled to release his updated spending plan, Democrats in the Legislature began lining up empty bills to streamline the budget process. The annual ritual is a reliable source of controversy in the Capitol, with...
Tags: Bob Huff, Budgets and Budgeting, Jerry Brown, Republican Party, Politics
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New measure could help California to start saving
Over the years, California has careened back and forth from surplus to deficit, a rollercoaster ride that causes whiplash for public schools and social services. Part of the problem is that state leaders have never had much success in building up a...Tags: Voting, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Elections, Politics
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GOP Assemblyman Jeff Gorell endorses Eric Garcetti for mayor
A Republican state assemblyman who represents Camarillo backed Eric Garcetti for mayor of Los Angeles on Friday, one of a group of military service members and veterans to give their endorsement to the city councilman. The announcement at an event in...
Tags: Lindsay Lohan, U.S. Army, Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti, Ted Lieu
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Republicans push overhaul of California budget process
This post has been updated and corrected. See below for details. SACRAMENTO -- Republican lawmakers are trying to resurrect parts of a failed ballot measure in hopes of increasing transparency in the state budget process. Most of the ideas in the...
Tags: Voting, Executive Branch, Budgets and Budgeting, Government, Jerry Brown
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Garcetti has a side commitment: the U.S. Naval Reserve
If he manages to get elected, Eric Garcetti may be the first mayor of Los Angeles who slips away for a little clandestine activity at a secret locale — and doesn't mind if his constituents find out about it. The city councilman and mayoral...Tags: Iraq, U.S. Army, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Vietnam War (1955-1975), U.S. Congress
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State lawmakers weigh competing plans for drone research center
California lawmakers are trying to resolve differences over competing proposals to host a research-and-testing center for drone aircraft that would be sanctioned by the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA has called for competing bids to...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Air Transportation Industry, Federal Aviation Administration, Research
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California lawmakers propose rules, tax breaks for drone aircraft
Anticipating the day when drones will be a routine sight in California skies, lawmakers have proposed tax breaks to encourage companies to build the unmanned aircraft in this state and restrictions to protect the public from invasions of privacy. The...
Tags: Alex Padilla, Steven Bradford, Machine Manufacturing, Manufacturing and Engineering, Federal Aviation Administration
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Will California state workers get a big salary bump?
SACRAMENTO -- Now that the state is no longer in the grips of a budget crisis, public employee unions are optimistic that they finally have some leverage to negotiate a raise. Will Gov. Jerry Brown hold the line on spending, as he has vowed, and keep...
Tags: Government, Jerry Brown, Career and Workplace, Politics, Public Employees
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4 GOP state lawmakers endorse federal immigration overhaul
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7-year freeze on university fee hikes proposed by GOP lawmakers
PolitiCalLegislative Republicans on Monday proposed a seven-year freeze on tuition and fee increases at California’s public universities and community colleges to correspond with the length of tax increases under voter-approved Proposition 30. Two bills were... -
For the record
Leon Leyson: In the Jan. 14 LATExtra section, the obituary of Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson said that he was the youngest member of Schindler's List, the group of 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by German industrialist Oskar Schindler. Definitive records...Tags: Nazi Party, Schindler's List (movie), Obituaries
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