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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the tardiest state budget ever today.
The $144.5 billion spending plan did see some line-item vetoes from the governor, including cuts to a program that lowered prescription drug prices for low-income residents.
(Read "Schwarzenegger signs Calif. budget 85...
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Could the longest budget stalemate in California history almost be over?
Here are the key health components of the latest budget compromise.
The 10 percent cuts to Medi-Cal provider rates would remain until March 2009.
Healthy Families premiums would increase.
Supplemental...
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A new Web site aims to collect tales of health care troubles due to the Medi-Cal cuts and the budget impasse.
MyCAStory.org features videos, photos and stories from California residents.
According to the site, "Our purpose is to share the stories behind the numbers of everyday Californians...
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Nicole Parra is being kicked out of the Capitol, probably because she didn't vote for the state budget proposal last night. Read more here.
“That’s the most severe punishment I’ve ever heard of,” said Vic Pollard, who covered the Capitol for The Californian until last...
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BAKERSFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT PRESS RELEASE
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Heard the news? ExpessJet is pulling out of Bakersfield come Aug. 23.
That means no more flights to San Diego and Sacramento.
An airport representative told reporter Vanessa Gregory there will be one more last-ditch-effort meeting June 4 to try to save the service, but an airline rep told...
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An Amber Alert issued recently for a 3-year-old Sacramento-area boy believed to have been abducted by his father has been deactivated. The child was located, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department.
The boy, Aleksandr Olteanu, was taken allegedly by his father, David Olteanu, 28,...
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From a Capitol Weekly blog today:
The Skinny
By Capitol Staff (published Thursday, February 28, 2008)
Some former staffers of Nicole Parra, who incidentally has publicly committed to Chuck Calderon for speaker, are planning a reunion. Let’s hope they’ve booked a big room. The...
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Today Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's task force on nontraditonal mortgages launched radio announcments meant to help people struggling with payments learn about ways to keep their homes.
It's known as the 90 Days of Hope campaign.
You can listen to them in English and Spanish.
Here's a summary...
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Over the long weekend, beginning on Saturday, January 19th, I took a trip with my wife and 2 1/2-year-young daughter to Sacramento. I made a pilgrimage to 19th and J to begin work on my new CD, 19th and J (The Place I Used to Play).
When we arrived in Sacramento, it was cold as hell (oh...
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That's the premise of a new play-in-progress by former Bakersfieldian and Sacramento English teacher Natalia Mercado.
According to the Elk Grove (Sacramento County) Citizen's news blog, "Zeus and Hera, the Later Years" "...throws Greek gods Zeus and Hera into the 21st century...
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On March 14th 2007 at 5:30 p.m. there was a fund-raiser put on by Jean Fuller for Assembly 2006. Presumably, this fund-raiser was to help the 32nd District Representative put a little money in the coffer for her forthcoming re-election campaigns (if anyone runs against...
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Hello Bakersfield! For those of you who like to subscribe to podcasts, I want to invite you to check out mine. My very first podcast will feature songs from my 9/11 Retrospective CD, One September Mournin'. I wrote these songs, brought the other artists together and recorded them in the weeks and...
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