Wednesday, July 18, 2012
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		After 26 Years Royalty Retires As President of OCTax
		
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		LATimes($): Bid to curb union spending gets big Democratic backer
		
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		SacBee: Assemblywoman Gaines calls for fiscal probe of California parks agency
		
 - FresBee: EDITORIAL: Corruption by parks officials violates public trust
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		CalWatch: Muni paid bonuses tied to inflated on-time rate
		
 
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		Dubunking Brown: Temporary Taxes Really?
		
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		LATimes($): Cal State students, faculty decry pay hikes for campus presidents
		
 - SLO Trib: Cal State trustees OK 10% pay hikes for 2 leaders
 - OCReg: CSU weighs 5 percent tuition increase
 - LADN: Raise approved for CSUN's Dianne Harrison as trustees talk budget cuts, tuition hikes
 - NCTimes: EDUCATION: Cal State mulls fiscal woes, but OKs president pay hikes
 - CalWatchdog: Star-Studded Cal State fundraising galas net little profit
 - LATimes($): Regents' panel OKs UCLA conference center, hotel
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		SacBee:Republicans attack Barack Obama for his ties to Steve Westly
		
 - Silicon Valley venture capitalist Steve Westly...
 - SFChron: GOP labels Steve Westly Obama 'crony'
 - LATimes($): National GOP aims at Westly
 - LATimes($): Top executive for insolvent state athletic commission resigns
 - RivPE: SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Trade group calls condemnation plan illegal
 - Marion Ashley: Mortgage program out of Karl Marx playbook
 - RivPE: SAN BERNARDINO: Bankruptcy decision back before the council
 - SBSun: San Bernardino officials debate role of union money in decision-making
 - SacBee: The Buzz:: Assembly tax chair's math, spelling go awry in campaign solicitation
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		SacBee: Schools decay as they await state emergency repair funds for years
		
 - FresBee: Valley schools tap state repair fund for $36 million, hope for more
 - FresBee: State defunds programs to fix 'slum schools'
 - LATimes($): 9th Circuit panel rejects challenge to delta water contracts
 - OCReg: State treasurer, ex-Santa Ana trustee to divorce
 - SFChron: Crash adds to Nadia Lockyer's woes
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		LATimes($): Largest-ever settlement reached in Northern California wildfire case
		
 - LATimes($): Drive fails to overturn teaching the accomplishments of gays
 - SacBee: California law targets legal loophole in police rape cases
 - SDUT: Brown signs double-dipping bill
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		VCS:Gorell urges California to prepare to fight base closures
		
 - LADN: California eateries are ducking the foie gras ban
 - OCReg: Assemblyman Jose Solorio to run for community college board
 - SCS:Cities, county dispute redevelopment bills: Reporting glitch could cost local jurisdictions millions
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		SacBee: SMUD Director Bill Slaton named to CalPERS board
		
 - VOSD: Taxpayer-Funded Abortions: Fact Check
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		Critics keep up attack on high-speed rail despite 'improved' review
		
 - CCT Political Blotter: Pete Stark wants Olympic uniforms made in USA
 - CalWatchdog: NEW: Studies predict AB 32 will crash Calif. economy
 - SFChron: States' fiscal woes to persist, experts warn
 - FresBee: Despite protests, Boy Scouts reaffirm ban on gays
 - ModBee: Denham leads money race
 - OCReg: Romney returning to O.C. for fundraising
 - The Hill:House Ethics panel has track record of leniency
 - Politico: Arpaio: Birth certificate a fraud
 
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The Golden Pen
		Sen. Tom Coburn: How Both Parties Bankrupted America
		
 - WSJ: Review & Outlook: Staples vs. Solyndra - WSJ.com
 - LATimes($): California, look to Wisconsin on budget lessons
 - LATimes($): Face your rival, Sen. Feinstein
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		SacBee: Proposition 40 on redistricting sets up tricky situation in California Senate
		
 - OCReg: Dan Walters: Unfunded pension liabilities threaten California
 - SDUT: Courts need to block Brown's dirty trick
 - OCReg: David Dickey: Don't yield to 'outsourcing' fears
 - F&H Daily: Fiscal Hits Keep Coming
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		How smart-talking is your Congressman?
		
 - SacBee: Sacramento County supervisors OK Walmart in North Highlands smart growth area
 - SacBee: Sacramento police union and city resume pension talks
 - SacBee: Davis delays vote on water project
 - SFChron: Ranked-choice mayoral elections continue
 - SFChron: Redwood City police use video-text chat
 - SFChron: PG&E's ads: Utility 'lost its way'
 - CCT Political Blotter: ACLU, Guardian sue FBI for Occupy records
 - CCTimes: Delta island ejects board member who hasn't paid his taxes
 - SFChron: Marissa Mayer will mix Yahoo, motherhood
 - SFChron: Marissa Mayer may need a little magic
 - SJMerc: New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has her work cut out for her
 - SJMerc: Palo Alto Mayor Yiaway Yeh says he won't run for re-election
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		FresBee: Fresno County supervisors approve library tax vote
		
 - County protects farmland from solar development
 - ModBee: Stanislaus mayors urging vote on growth
 - ModBee: Candidates to lead Riverbank differ on pivotal matters
 - FresBee: Supervisors scold sheriff over Fresno County Jail overtime
 - Election notebook: Phillips to open Bakersfield campaign office
 - SLO Trib: Vote snuffs smoking at county sites
 - SCS:Santa Cruz County hires economic development coordinator
 - VCS:Property tax information sent to wrong addresses
 - VCS:County to double spending on road paving
 - VCS:Study finds Ventura County needs highly skilled workers but hasn't received funding
 - LATimes($): Investment advisor suspected in string of window shatterings
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		LATimes($): L.A. Fire Department task force will examine response times
		
 - LATimes($): L.A. County sheriff's official clarifies 'gray area' comments
 - LADN: Charter expert teams with LAUSD on Future Is Now project
 - OCReg: Kelly Thomas case: A second cop leaves city
 - OCReg: Nuclear-plant opponents call for public license review of San Onofre
 - OCReg: H.B. council takes first look at $2.5 million in cuts
 - SBSun: Employees leaving San Bernardino as frustration, fear build
 - SBSun: Pomona council gives go-ahead to building waste transfer station
 - RivPE: LAKEVIEW: County must rescind approval of 11,350-home project
 - RivPE: INLAND: Bus agencies report significant ridership gains
 - RivPE: Region's groundwater contaminated, study says
 - SDUT: Padres sale talks continue in N.Y.
 - SDUT: The county may owe you money
 - NCTimes: SOLANA BEACH: Pot clinic vote coming to City Council
 - NCTimes: CARLSBAD: Council questions outsourcing savings, salary figures
 
