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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
More grim news Wednesday for state workers: California's general fund faces a $21 billion deficit through the middle of 2011. The red ink could flow for years to come, according to a forecast by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office. The state's 200,000 or so workers, already taking a 15 percent pay hit from three furlough days per month, knew this was coming. What does the state's rotten financial...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Photo by rappensuncle via Flickr A state water board's administrative error has basically left a polluting company off the hook. In what Heal the Bay president Mark Gold calls "one of the most polluted beaches in Santa Monica Bay"--that would be Paradise Cove in Malibu--a mobile park owned by the Kissel Company "has been one of the largest sources of fecal pollution to the beach."...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Gov. Schwarzenegger in Milan, Italy today (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) He can't run for Governor again, and his Austrian birth means the Presidency is out of the question, but Arnold Schwarzenegger told reporters in Europe yesterday that he won't be vying for votes once his term is up in 2010, according to an Associated Press report . While traveling in Milan, the actor-turned-Governator said "I...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli Billions taken healthcare and education, a 32 percent hike under consideration in the University system, the list could go on. The big question is, after this year, what more is there to cut? It's an especially important question considering a new projected deficit puts California almost back in the same spot when dealing with this year's budget. A report to be released today...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is the acting governor. Ever since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger departed on his latest foreign trip, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento has served as acting governor of California. Will he seize the moment? Normally, with the Big Cheese out of the state, the job of leading one of the world's largest economies falls to the state's lieutenant...
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Aguanomics (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Read this interview (via DW) with State Senator Wolk (D-Davis). Here are some nice (?) quotations: She told The Record's editorial board Monday that, realistically, the efforts [water bills] were a waste. "It was awful, incredibly awful," Wolk said. "I've never seen anything like this." She said the legislation was written by Westlands Water District, which serves western Fresno...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
OAKLAND – Lawyers representing unions and a few government agencies pounded away at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's furlough policy for nearly five hours in Alameda Superior Court on Monday. They argued the policy is illegally harming the government, that it's an executive overreach, a violation of minimum wage laws and irrational because it applies to nearly all state workers – even those...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger shakes hands, passes out cigars, and otherwise flexes his charm during a visit Monday to a military camp outside Baghdad, praising the troops there and promising to work out with them today. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visited troops Monday in Iraq at a military camp outside Baghdad for the first time as California governor, signing autographs and recounting his own experience...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
BAGHDAD -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has dropped in on U.S. troops in Iraq, thanking them for the sacrifices they and their families are making.
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LAist (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Inside the charred grounds of Oakridge in Sylmar, Nov. 15, 2008 (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) The Sayre Fire broke out late in the night on November 14th, 2008, and burned for several days in the Northeast San Fernando Valley and into Santa Clarita, ravaging across thousands of acres and destroying nearly 500 homes in the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar alone. This community became emblematic of the Sayre...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the "Green Governor," last week signed a five bill package that will lead to the construction of the peripheral canal, more dams and the destruction of the California Delta unless this insane plan is stopped. Governor's Office Photo: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger held a press conference at the Set Back Levee on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Isleton, California...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The Center for Biological Diversity Friday filed two lawsuits against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Obama administration for failing to protect two critically imperiled San Francisco Bay-Delta fish species, the longfin smelt and delta smelt. Responding to a 2007 petition under the Endangered Species Act, the Service in April 2009 improperly denied federal listing for the longfin smelt....
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Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
As detailed in this Los Angeles Times article, which is headlined "Governor submits plan to cut prison population: But he also disavows the proposed solutions as being illegal," California's "Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday gave federal judges a road map...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
One thing is clear from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's interview Thursday with The Bee's editorial board: He's not quietly settling into lame duck status. Clearly delighted with the historic water deal reached last week, Schwarzenegger plans to spend his last year in office addressing several other items on the state's long list of seemingly intractable issues. It's encouraging to hear about some of...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Governor will speak at Saban Center before heading to Iraq, aide says. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is stopping in Jerusalem to participate in a moderated conversation at a Middle East policy conference Sunday before heading to Iraq next week, an aide said Friday.
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trymi | 03/25/2009
JE Design unveiled today its latest kit for the Porsche Cayenne dubbed the “Progressor”. We know this sounds like a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger but it is not! The new kit consists in a front spoiler with integrated daytime running LEDs connected to a front lip, headlights masks, side skirts and a new rear apron with integrated air diffuser.
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nadias | 02/26/2009
Neal H. Moritz and his Original Films are in final negotiations to develop and produce for Columbia Pictures a contemporary version of Total Recall , the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action movie directed by Paul Verhoeven, says The Hollywood Reporter . more
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123_123 | 01/26/2009
Hercules (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the bodybuilder business. Click to Watch Online
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