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California government payroll grew by $500 million in 2011 as furloughs eased
Sacramento Bee
By Phillip Reese State government payroll increased by half a billion dollars last year, even as California cut thousands of state worker jobs, according to a Bee analysis of new data from the Controller's Office. The payroll increase added about $140 ...
State Mental Health Department Saw High Pay Increases in 2011California Healthline
Despite massive layoffs California state payrolls increaseCivSource

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Los Angeles Times

Rethinking redevelopment in California
Los Angeles Times
(Los Angeles Times / May 16, 2011) By Madeline Janis Last week, one of the country's oldest and largest public economic development programs came to an inglorious end when the governor and Legislature pulled the plug on California's 400 redevelopment ...

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California public employees among highest paid in country, firefighters at the top
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
By JD Velasco, Staff Writer Public employees in California were among the best paid in the nation in 2010, according to data released by the US Census Bureau last week. Full-time employees of state and local governments received an average of $5774 in ...

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The Guardian

The Ninth Circuit's Attack on Self Government
National Review Online (blog)
The Ninth Circuit held that, once the uber-liberal California Supreme Court determined that the 150-year-old California state constitution should be read to include a right to same-sex marriage, the people of California were now prohibited from ...
Prop. 8 ruling: The legal path aheadLos Angeles Times
Court Rejects State Ban on Gay MarriageWall Street Journal
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Analysis: Recent California newspaper editorials
Victoria Advocate
The California Public Utilities Commission took a small step last month toward rebuilding public trust in the wake of the San Bruno tragedy. The PUC voted unanimously (4-0) to support state Sen. Leland Yee's proposed SB 1000, which would make the ...
Fewer employer retirement benefits lead to high retirement insecurity in ...healthycal.org

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AP Enterprise: CA mine dispute recalls wild past
Fox News
California's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills that some officials describe as one of the most egregious cases of ...

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US rejects California health-care copayment plan
Reuters
| SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The government blocked an effort on Monday by California to reduce its health-care spending by requiring those enrolled in its Medi-Cal program for the needy to make copayments for medical services. The Centers for Medicare ...
Obama administration rejects Calif. Medicaid co-pay proposalNews-Medical.net

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Fox News

Fisker Automotive lays off workers while renegotiating government loan
Fox News
Fisker Automotive, an electric car maker that received a half-billion-dollar loan from the federal government, said Monday that it has laid off workers in Delaware and California. The layoffs include 26 workers at a former General Motors plant in ...
Fisker is not another Solyndra ... yetCNNMoney
Fisker, out of government money, begins layoffsUSA TODAY
Electric car maker Fisker lays off workers while hoping to renegotiate ...Daily auto news
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Jon Coupal: State payroll drives demand for tax hike
OCRegister
While nearly every major California newspaper reported the controller's warning about waning cash in the state's accounts, few media outlets published a closely related story. New Census Bureau statistics confirm that government employees in California ...

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Feds unseal indictment accusing company owned by Chinese government of trade ...
The Republic
PAUL ELIAS AP SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors are accusing a company owned by the Chinese government of conspiring with a California couple to steal trade secrets from Dupont Co. The indictment unsealed Wednesday alleges that Pangang Group stole ...
China firm indicted for DuPont conspiracy: filingReuters
Californian, Pangang Charged With DuPont Trade-Secret TheftBusinessWeek

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