November 3, 2010, 9:03 AM
Kamala Harris slight lead for attorney general Democrat Kamala Harris, the district attorney of San Francisco, has pulled ahead of Republican Steve Cooley in the race for California attorney general. Harris was receiving 46.1 percent of the vote compared to Cooley, the Los Angeles...
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October 26, 2010, 12:06 AM
A group of mental health and disability rights advocates filed a class-action lawsuit against state and local agencies in federal court last week to put a stop to the governor’s veto of a long-standing mental health program. For a quarter of a century, AB 3632 provided critical mental...
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October 26, 2010, 12:06 AM
The state will be taking a closer look at how nursing homes care for patients, scrutinizing staffing levels and playing a role in evaluating patient satisfaction and staff turnover under a law signed last week by the governor. The changes are part of a package of “quality and...
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October 11, 2010, 12:05 AM
The long effort to create a system to track the progress of students from kindergarten through college and into the workplace received another setback when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger eliminated $6.8 million in state funds intended for the project. * This is the second major setback for the...
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October 7, 2010, 12:05 AM
Despite Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's promises to reduce California's indebtedness, the state's debt has nearly tripled during the seven years he has been governor. Today is the seventh anniversary of the 2003 recall election, so it is an appropriate time to review how a...
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October 6, 2010, 12:05 AM
Next school year, all students in junior high and high school will be required to get a whooping cough booster, a measure motivated by an ongoing epidemic of the illness like none seen since 1955. And in the 2012 school year and thereafter, students entering seventh grade will be required...
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October 4, 2010, 12:14 AM
When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two laws establishing a health reform exchange Friday, it was a historic moment. It was also, more subtly, a defiant moment, as the governor drafted into law concepts that some health insurers and the California Chamber of Commerce bitterly opposed. ...
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September 28, 2010, 12:05 AM
The free health clinics that have filled stadiums across the nation got a big boost in California on Friday when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill allowing out-of-state health workers to volunteer here. The bill will benefit Remote Area Medical, a group that was formed to provide health...
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September 28, 2010, 12:05 AM
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office released a long list of signed and vetoed bills Friday, and among the losers was a measure to regulate health insurance for pets. As I wrote in August, the bill would have required pet health insurers to tell consumers about co-pay amounts, lifetime...
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