December 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
Dozens of bills vetoed during the final legislative session of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration have found new life with Jerry Brown in the governor’s office, a California Watch analysis has found. The bills range from high-profile initiatives like the California Dream...
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May 3, 2011, 12:05 AM
Two years ago former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have made access to clean water a legislative mandate. Now community advocates and legislators are trying again. The Human Right to Water package – consisting of six bills – would expand efforts to improve...
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April 18, 2011, 10:49 AM
The Schwarzenegger administration hamstrung the ability of state regulators to ensure schools are built safely by imposing hiring freezes and furloughs during a school building boom, an official with a prominent architects lobby said recently. Kurt Cooknick, director of regulation for the...
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April 11, 2011, 8:30 AM
A bill aiming to make it safer to get inked up in California has been introduced for the third time. Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger twice vetoed Assemblywoman Fiona Ma’s proposal to implement new regulations for tattoo parlors, calling them unnecessary. Ma introduced a new bill, AB...
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February 4, 2011, 12:05 AM
For months, officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation have faced a stream of questions about their 521 grams of sodium thiopental, a key lethal injection drug. And now attorneys representing death row inmates want to put former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger under...
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January 26, 2011, 9:05 PM
California voters appear to be initially supportive of Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to hold a special election this summer that would help plug the state's budget deficit by extending taxes and fees, according to a Public Policy Institute of California poll released tonight. The poll...
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January 18, 2011, 12:05 AM
Salaries for top posts in Gov. Jerry Brown’s office are down by about 11 percent from the pay scale set by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, records show. And, as Brown promises to impose big cuts in state government, there are fewer jobs in the governor’s office. Brown has...
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January 6, 2011, 12:04 AM
It was a meeting of the minds fit for Hollywood. Or Bollywood as the case may be. Two of the world's most prominent women, representing two of the world's most famous political dynasties, coming together for an hour in 2006 under the torrid New Delhi sun. On one side: California's...
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January 4, 2011, 12:06 AM
Tom Torlakson, the new state superintendent of public instruction, chose to be inaugurated in the gymnasium at Mount Diablo High School in Concord where he used to teach – a school district that like many others around the state, faces a perilous financial future. Torlakson once taught...
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January 4, 2011, 12:06 AM
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's last-minute decision to shorten the prison sentence of Esteban Nunez, the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, brought immediate condemnation from victim's groups and the San Diego County district attorney. But while Schwarzenegger's action was...
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January 4, 2011, 12:06 AM
In one of his final acts as governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed a politically connected interior designer and wife of a long-time aide to a six-figure post on the state's Public Employment Relations Board, which oversees and enforces collective bargaining rules among the state's...
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January 3, 2011, 12:06 AM
It was the worst of times. In this tale of two governors, the state's precarious financial condition is about all that unites Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gov.-elect Jerry Brown, set to be inaugurated today in Sacramento. When Schwarzenegger came into office, he faced budget...
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December 6, 2010, 12:05 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court’s pending decision on how California must address its colossally overcrowded prisons is about the unconstitutional state of inmate health care. But it’s also about money. Specifically, the hundreds of millions of dollars the state spends each year to house...
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December 3, 2010, 12:05 AM
Environmentalists are accusing the Schwarzenegger administration of gutting a landmark California law designed to reduce the number of harmful chemicals in consumer products. Expectations were set high when the Green Chemistry Initiative was created two years ago and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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November 30, 2010, 12:05 AM
A major squabble between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his adversaries on K-12 funding early in his administration has had a positive outcome: higher test scores in many of the state's lowest performing schools. That is the finding of a report to be released today by the California...
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