Tuesday, August 21, 2012
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		AB 2323 - INCREASING GUIDANCE AND TRANSPARENCY AT THE BOE
		
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		TAX HIKES DON'T LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD
		
 - F&H Daily: What's Next? A Crime Prevention Fee?
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		FRBlog: Brown to San Diego: Tax yourselves or else!
		
 - SDUT: Brown visits SD, promises 'real suffering' if tax fails
 
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		CalWatchdog: NEW: Confusion: Each Calif. state agency uses different accounting numbers
		
 - Candidates getting -- and trying to enlist -- some help
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		CalWatchdog: NEW: Bankruptcy no panacea for pensions
		
 - DesSun:Lawmakers vow pension reform ahead
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		Prop 30 supporters announce voter registration drive
		
 - SacBee: Accumulated state worker leave prompted California's park scandal
 - LATimes($): Business, labor groups propose environmental act changes
 - State environmental law could be up for changes
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		LATimes($): Lawmakers OK letting minors appeal life terms after 15 years
		
 - OCReg: Bill could free juveniles in prison for life
 - SFChron: Life-without-parole bill lands on governor's desk
 - SacBee: Brown gets parole bill for juvenile murderers
 - LATimes($): State lawmakers approve better overtime benefits for farmworkers
 - VCS:State Senate approves bill to extend overtime rules to farmworkers
 - LATimes($): Bill extends overtime pay protections to California farmworkers
 - SFChron: State needs to protect farmworkers
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		DesSun:Restructuring of prisons cuts inmate fire crews
		
 - LATimes($): DMV working on issue of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants
 - SCS:California driver's licenses for some illegal immigrants flares into burning question
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		OCReg: New carbon emissions rule could cost UC, CSU millions
		
 - CCT Political Blotter: Ricky Gill to speak at Republican National Convention
 - SacBee: Congressional swim in Sea of Galilee draws criticism
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		ModBee: Gift ban supporters, including Cannella of Ceres, can't resist freebies
		
 - LATimes($): Edison to lay off 730 workers at San Onofre
 - LATimes($): West Hollywood OKs ban on plastic bags in store checkout lines
 - DesSun:Financial analysts: Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians' outlook 'positive'
 - LATimes($): Man behind bars 2 years after judge orders release
 - SFChron: Chevron refinery fire a 'close call'
 - CCTimes: Federal investigators still focused on failing pipe in Chevron refinery fire
 - LATimes($): Social workers build bridges to find foster children homes
 - The Hill:The Hill's 50 Wealthiest lawmakers
 
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The Golden Pen
		FresBee: EDITORIAL: Politicians block access to public information
		
 - SDUT: Barack Obama's unserious re-election campaign
 - SacBee: Bruce Maiman: Caught trashing stimulus but taking the cash
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		LATimes($): Allow inmates to talk
		
 - OCReg: Editorial: Moody's blues for California cities
 - LATimes($): Safety at mental hospitals
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		CalWatchdog: NEW: Government octopus strangling state
		
 - FresBee: EDITORIAL: Both parties making big mess of California
 - F&H Daily: Is CEQA Reform Possible?
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		OCReg: Debra Saunders: Dems wrong to tie Romney to Akin
		
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		SacBee: Overhauling CEQA now a hot topic
		
 - OCReg: Dan Walters: California renews fight over workers' comp
 - SacBee: Twin Rivers probes allegation of unauthorized sports physicals
 - SacBee: Editorial: Consider annexation for county's sad 'finger'
 - SacBee: Sacramento council to consider transit center plans
 - ModBee: Raley's to resume union talks
 - SFChron: Komen controversy hurts local affiliate
 - SFChron: School year begins with great fanfare
 - SFChron: Oakland police radio culprit: cell towers
 - FresBee: Feds threaten to reallocate unused Calif. road funds
 - ModBee: Oakdale OKs partial payment on sewer loan
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		FresBee: Standard & Poor's downgrades Fresno's debt
		
 - FresBee: Fresno seeks eminent domain for land at Willow, Nees avenues
 - SLO Trib: Plan for seismic surveys near Diablo approved by state agency
 - VCS:Simi Valley sex offender law on track for Halloween
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		LATimes($): Baca should release jail records
		
 - OCReg:Will Costa Mesa force light into labor negotiations?
 - OCReg: Student who revealed Troy election-rigging reinstated to post
 - OCReg: Cal State Fullerton professor appointed to state board
 - OCReg: O.C. retail sales tax rises for 8 consecutive quarters
 - RivPE: AIRPORT: Ontario manager floats incentive proposal
 - SBSun: Supervisors to consider approving $200 million project to eliminate 215-15 Freeway bottleneck
 - RivPE: SAN BERNARDINO: Council ward lines redrawn
 - SBSun: San Bernardino council approves new ward boundaries
 - RivPE: RIVERSIDE: School board delays trustee maps again
 - RivPE: RIVERSIDE: College vice president put on leave
 - SDUT: Poway Unified residents fume over expensive bond
 - VOSD: Poway Residents Ask: What Can We Do Now?
 - NCTimes: OCEANSIDE: City to weigh options for Goat Hill golf course property
 - SDUT: Balboa Park lily pond undergoes $19K in repairs
 - VOSD: Bonus Raises Another Transparency Concern in PB
 
