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Mid-term budget proposes gas tax swap
 March 5 –

The California State Senate and Assembly were back in action this week to consider the final piece of the mid-term budget proposals aimed at closing nearly a quarter of California’s $20 billion deficit. The cornerstone of the proposal sent to the Governor today, March 4th, is a controversial transportation package, which provides for a complex gas tax swap aimed at freeing up $1.1 billion in General Fund dollars that are constitutionally tied to transportation due to Prop 42.

The proposal has stirred up considerable controversy between both parties, who are locked into a debate on whether the swap constitutes a tax increase and should therefore be subject to the Prop 13 protected two-thirds vote requirement.  Democrat leaders have maintained that the tax swap does ... » More


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» Little Hoover Commission Report – Office of Economic Development   March 5
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» Federal 'conformity' bill moves out of Assembly committee   Feb. 26
» Meal period reform fails in special session   Feb. 26
» Carpet EPR bill   Feb. 26
» DTSC takes new approach on safer alternatives regulation   Feb. 26
» Mandatory single sales factor   Feb. 19
» Positive CEQA bills   Feb. 19
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State news -  March 11
"Integrity abuses" charged in initiative to suspend California climate law – A bitter split among backers of the controversial November ballot initiative to suspend California's 2006 first-in-the-nation global warming law ...  Margot Roosevelt in the L.A. Times

Microsoft unveils job initiative in California – Schwarzenegger, who made the announcement from Microsoft's Silicon Valley office in Mountain View, said the technology training was necessary to put ...  W.J. Hennigan in the L.A. Times

Los Angeles Electric Rate Linked to Solar Power – Now, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the United States, is poised to pass a roughly 5 percent rate ...  Jennifer Steinhauer in the New York Times

AmCan delays emissions law discussion Kerana Todoro – The issue of climate change is warming up again in American Canyon, where a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Napa County won’t be touched ...  Keranan Todorov in the Napa Valley Register

Poll: Suspend environmental protection laws to reduce unemployment? – In response to California's stubborn 12%-plus unemployment rate, Republicans lawmakers are proposing to roll back a few environmental protection laws ...   Editorial in the L.A. Times


Commentary -  March 11
Poll: Suspend environmental protection laws to reduce unemployment? – In response to California's stubborn 12%-plus unemployment rate, Republicans lawmakers are proposing to roll back a few environmental protection laws ...   Editorial in the L.A. Times

Going green vs. going broke – Will cutting carbon kill jobs in California? That's the premise of a November ballot initiative proposed by Republican lawmakers, whose cause got a ...   Editorial in the L.A. Times


National news -  March 11
Senate passes $140 billion in tax breaks, aid to unemployed – The Senate approved a $140 billion package of tax breaks and aid to the unemployed Wednesday, the most substantial effort by the chamber to boost the ...  Ben Pershing in the Washington Post

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