Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference executive director Nadine Bailey said Palin will kick off the weeklong timber industry gathering Feb. 8 in Redding.
http://urlet.com/splitting.machine
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/2326286.html?mi_rss=Latest%20News
From its glamorization on TV to a major push toward its legalization in California next year, marijuana is enjoying the spotlight in pop culture. But in the shadows of that glow, African Americans using the oft-maligned weed are at far greater risk of arrest than their white counterparts, the Pasadena Weekly has learned.
For the past five years, Pasadena police officers have arrested African Americans on marijuana charges at rates wildly disproportionate to Pasadena’s demographics, according to a review by the Weekly of nearly four decades worth of arrest data.
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/just_too_high/7833/
Last month, we reported that California’s poverty rate jumped from 12.7 percent in 2007 to 14.6 percent in 2008. That means that 5.3 million Californians – nearly one of every seven – were officially considered to be living in poverty last year.
New data from the US Census Bureau suggest that many more Californians may be in poverty. Many experts believe the official poverty rate is deeply flawed, and the Census Bureau has designed several alternative poverty measures that may reflect families’ spending and resources more accurately than the official poverty numbers do now.
Governor vetoes routine legislation.
But wait — there’s a real message, an actual missive from the Gov to Tom, embedded in this text. And it’s not hard to find — in fact, it’s hard to believe it could have been a coincidence.
http://urlet.com/creates.dramatically
http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2009/10/arnold_to_sf_fuck_you.html
By Patrick McGreevy
October 9, 2009
Reporting from Sacramento – As California’s public retirement funds reel from losses of nearly $100 billion in recent years and lack enough cash to cover their long-term costs, thousands of state employees are collecting government pension checks along with their paychecks.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-double-dip9-2009oct09,0,834754.story
The San Diego Association of Governments, the region’s planning agency, identified the $377 million in rail improvements between San Clemente and downtown San Diego.
About 70 trains travel that section on weekdays, including Amtrak, the Coaster and freight cars. Transit officials want to add a parallel set of rails to improve reliability, replace bridges and install new technology to avoid collisions.
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/14/1n14train183934/?metro
By Dale Kasler
dkasler@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Stepping into a widening national probe of investment marketing agents, CalPERS on Wednesday launched a “special review” of a former board member who made $50 million in fees pitching deals to the pension fund.
http://www.sacbee.com/business/story/2254804.html?mi_rss=Business
There is a way to deal with both of the problems described above: recast the Legislature into a single, or unicameral, body. Radical? Perhaps, but long overdue.
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