June 17, 2015 | PressTelegram.com
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The announcement of a California budget deal has not stopped pleas for the state to spend more on social services, as advocates for people with disabilities came to the state Capitol Wednesday, angry after additional funding for services was left out of ... Read More
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June 4, 2015 | CBS Sacramento
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California took the first step Thursday to regulate its nearly 20-year-old medical marijuana industry, one that lawmakers said currently resembles something out of the “wild, wild West.”
AB266 merges what were two competing bills and attempts to set up state regulations that ... Read More
June 4, 2015Administrator
May 30, 2015 | CBSNews
State assembly has passed a bill making "lane splitting" legal. That's when a motorcycle rider drives between other vehicles on congested streets and freeways. Ben Tracy brings us up to speed.
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May 30, 2015Administrator
May 26, 2015 | SacBee.com
It could get more expensive to file a ballot initiative in California.
Legislation hiking the filing fee from $200 to $8,000 passed the Assembly on a 46-24 vote Tuesday. In the background lurked a near-universally condemned proposed ballot initiative that seeks to authorize executing homosexuals. While the ... Read More
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May 12, 2015 | Yahoo News
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge decided not to send a serial rapist back to a psychiatric hospital, outraging the California community where he has lived since his release last year and where some fear he will attack again.
Santa Clara County Judge Richard Loftus ruled ... Read More
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April 29, 2015 | hometownstation.com
A bill to clean out the Bouquet Canyon creek in Santa Clarita and allow for water to flow through the creek once more to refill the canyon’s resident’s wells was passed through the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee, officials said Wednesday.
Assembly Bill 353, authored by ... Read More
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April 21, 2015 | NBCLosAngeles.com
Legislators and advocates gathered Monday to showcase a new tool that will crack down on drugged driving across the state.
DDS2, also known as a roadside drug test, is like a breathalyzer, but it tests for narcotics instead of alcohol.
The technology, in use in states such as ... Read More
April 21, 2015Administrator
February 25, 2015 | LA Times
All of us must have been snoring when Proposition 47 passed. If anyone was awake and noticed a huge flaw, nothing was said. Nary a peep.
That's too often the problem with ballot initiatives. They're products of focus groups and polling to see what sells. They're ... Read More
February 25, 2015Administrator
February 23, 2015 | Reuters
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Illegal possession of so-called date-rape drugs would become a potential felony under a bill in California to reverse what supporters say is an unintended consequence of a voter-approved law reducing penalties for non-violent crimes.
The measure by Republican Tom Lackey, set to be ... Read More
February 23, 2015Administrator
January 9, 2015 | bakersfieldnow.com
The NFL made it public Friday morning on national television that the Bobcats are the winners of the league’s "Together We Make Football" contest. Hall of Fame running back Marcus Allen, among many others, tweeted about it.
As the winners, the whole team is booked for a ... Read More
January 9, 2015Administrator