03/29/2024

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Support For California Water Bond Falls, Poll Finds

Judging by a new statewide poll, California lawmakers were smart to pull an $11.1-billion water bond off last fall’s ballot.

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Reinvigorating ‘Career Tech’ A Worthy Goal

SACRAMENTO — We used to call it “shop.” Wood shop. Auto shop. Then the educators got fancy and renamed it “vocational education.”

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California Unemployment Rate Holds At 9.8%, Highest In U.S.

California’s jobless rate was unchanged at 9.8% in January for the second straight month, and that lack of improvement put the Golden State in a tie with Rhode Island for the worst unemployment in the U.S.

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‘Fracking’ Could Boost California Economy By 14%, Study Says

SACRAMENTO — Tapping California’s oil-rich Monterey shale using hydraulic fracturing could boost the state’s economic activity by as much as 14.3% and create hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to a new USC study.

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Lumberyards Bustling Again As Housing Market Improves

Even before dawn breaks, workers at the lumberyard in Lynwood were bustling around, getting a move on the day. Men in yellow safety vests drove flatbed trucks stacked to the brim with planks of wood. Others were buzzing around in forklifts, ferrying more boards.

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Tapping California Shale Oil Could Add Millions Of Jobs, Study Says

California’s Monterey shale, which holds an estimated 15 billion barrels of oil, has been touted as crucial to the state’s energy future and a boon to its economy. A study released Thursday tries to quantify the potential economic benefits.

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Consumer Spending Surprisingly Robust In February

WASHINGTON — Consumer spending grew at a surprisingly strong pace last month, another encouraging sign that the economy may be gaining momentum despite the hit from higher taxes and gas prices and fears of government spending cuts.

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Labor, Environmental Groups Protest Changes To CEQA

SACRAMENTO — Labor and environmental groups rallied Tuesday on the steps of the Capitol to protest efforts to overhaul California’s landmark environmental law.

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Tapping California Shale Oil Could Add Millions Of Jobs

California’s Monterey shale, which holds an estimated 15 billion barrels of oil, has been touted as crucial to the state’s energy future and a boon to its economy. A study released Thursday tries to quantify the potential economic benefits.

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California Facing Bid Challenges in Improving State Roads

The Reason Foundation, a libertarian-leaning think tank, says in a new report that California is facing big challenges in improving driving conditions on its state-owned roads.

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Lack of Immigration Reform Threatans California Famers

SACRAMENTO — Except for illegal immigrants, no group has more at stake in the national fight over immigration reform than California farmers.

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Democratic Lawmakers Revive Oil Extraction Tax for California

After California voters approved a multibillion-dollar increase to sales and income taxes in November to help fund education, Democratic legislative leaders promised restraint, saying they would not be seeking additional tax increases any time soon.

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Who’s Messing With Whose Jobss?

Gov. Jerry Brown ought to cut his Texas brother, Rick Perry, a little slack. Texas Gov. Perry arrived in the Golden State this week trolling for California businesses he could poach and carry home with him in his saddlebags.

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Rhythm & Hues to File for Bankruptcy Protection

Company: Rhythm & HuesCA Net Job Gain/Loss: -200Reason: LayoffCity/Region Losing Jobs: Los Angeles, CANotes: Layoffs as part of company bankruptcy filing

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Ex-Governors Call for Changes to Environmental Law

Three of California’s former governors have banded together to urge an overhaul of the state’s landmark environmental law, saying the 40-year-old measure needs to be “modernized” to help speed the Golden State’s economic recovery.

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