Sunday, February 5, 2012
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		CalWatch: High-speed rail's coming battle: Powerful land owners
		
 - OCReg: Rail line's pending battle with land owners
 - SanGabTrib:High-speed rail tapped state funds for unusual lobbying contract
 - LAT: High-speed rail ... or fail?
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		SacBee: Dan Walters: Democrats may be Jerry Brown's big hurdle on budget
		
 
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		SacBee: Jerry Brown's call for fewer school tests conflicts with state's new education blueprint
		
 - CCTimes: The cost of dying: It's hard to reject care even as costs soar
 - SacBee: Lawmakers' cars going, going ... gone!
 - SacBee:See the sale prices for California legislators' state cars
 - SCS:California likely to experience the biggest political turnover in 20 years
 - SacBee: Nurses flex their political muscle in Sacramento and across California
 - NCTimes: ENERGY: Customers to get option to dump smart meters
 - LAT: Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth
 - SFChron: 49ers' NFL loan moves team closer to Santa Clara
 - CCTimes: Internal Affairs: Politics be damned -- Feinstein opts for a Republican judge
 - CCTimes: IBM report suggests fewer San Jose cops and firefighters
 - SFChron: Analysis suggests SJ could cut police, fire jobs
 - County: Lamont utility has sewer water options in composter case
 - FresBee: Law allowing bigger trucks on highways is tabled
 - ModBee: Online explosion takes hold in Ripon schools
 - ModBee: Oakdale's Web site remains offline
 - ModBee: 1982 blast in Modesto takes one life, consumes another
 - SCS:Desalination environmental review dealt blow
 - SLO Trib: Paso Robles officer sues over ticket quota claim
 - SLO Trib: Nipomo Mesa is set to consider pipeline cost
 - VCS:Oak View water district accused of pension spiking
 - VCS:Ventura councilwoman kicks off supervisor campaign
 - SanGabTrib:SCAG adopts high-speed rail agreement
 - LADN: Local parents rally to demand more high-quality schools and teachers in L.A.
 - SanGabTrib:Records show some La Puente council members splurge on trips, others frugal
 - LAT: LAX facing head wind in international travel
 - OCReg:Investment returns falter for O.C. public pension plan
 - OCReg:UPDATED: New details on San Onofre steam generator leak
 - OCReg: Caltrans offers to consider changes to I-5 sound wall
 - OCReg: Complaint: Newport chamber using tax dollars for politics
 - DesSun:District leaders enjoy deluxe benefits
 - DesSun:Jim Ferguson seeks to return to Palm Desert City Council
 - RivPE: LIBERTY QUARRY: Second hearing to be held Monday
 - RivPE: SAN JACINTO: Council considers expressway widening
 - SDUT: Stadium plan: Mayoral candidates weigh in
 - SDUT: Both Dems could advance in 'top-two' primary
 - SDUT: Bilbray went to bat for energy aid
 
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The Golden Pen
SacBee: Editorial: Lawmakers shouldn't get too bullish on Facebook tax revenues - 
	
	
	
			
		OCReg: Editorial: Union-backed bill targets charter schools
		
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		CCTimes: With $2.4 billion Contra Costa retirement debt, no one should pop champagne corks
		
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		KEVIN MCCARTHY: We must support business and job creation
		
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		SDUT: Local analysis: Ron Nehring on Nevada
		
 - SCS:As We See It: Moving past redevelopment
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		SFChron: CLASS Act is dead, but Obama won't repeal it
		
 - ModBee: Should the U.S. end restrictions on domestic oil drilling? Yes: We should, but won't
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		IVDB: VA health care is a disaster
		
 - CalWatchdog: NEW: Repetitive Media Bias Denial
 - CCTimes: Contra Costa Times editorial: Limits on use of pesticides posses threat of increases in West Nile disease
 - SDUT: San Diego Unified: triage or bloodbath?
 - CPR: Food Stamp Junk Food Bans Miss The Real Problem
 - Townhall: The Fight to Reform Education
 - Townhall: Lincoln Brown: An ID to Buy Sugar? But Not For Voting?
 - DailyTele: Lost Lessons of Communism's Fall
 - OCReg: Walker Recall's Ripple Effect Across U.S.
 - NatlRev: When Should an Officer Pull the Trigger?
 - BigGov't:Should the United Nations Have the Power to Impose Global Taxes?
 - CPR: The Wealth of Our Nation
 - SacBee: Big cities cautious about privatizing parking after Chicago's effort
 - SacBee: Public Eye: Worker still on job after no-contest plea to theft
 - SacBee: Federal appellate court rejects Forest Service plan for Sierra
 - SFChron: Red-light cameras boost coffers, rile drivers
 - OakTrib: Occupy Oakland protesters march against police again
 - CCTimes: Interim Fremont mayor has no shortage of experience
 - SFChron: Peaceful Occupy Oakland protest
 - CCT Political Blotter: What I was trying to say about Occupy Oakland
 - SFChron: Police hold smaller Occupy Oakland protest in check
 - CCTimes: Two longtime Contra Costa County judges retire from bench
 
