Posted on 01/28/2005 12:22:22 AM PST by goldstategop
So a special election is a big risk even for a celebrity politician considered by many to be invincible. If there's no compromise with the Legislature on these proposals, there'll be a bitterly partisan shootout between Schwarzenegger and Democrats — between his special interests and the Democrats' interests, including the potent California Teachers Assn.
The Terminator could meet his match in teachers — and schoolkids and parents.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
Skelton and the LA Times are spokesmen for the Democratic machine. When they're upset, Arnold is doing something right. If they praise him, he's doing something badly wrong.
It will be a great day for this badly abused state when the LAT collapses under the weight of its own arrogance and goes bankrupt.
Are they messed up or what?
"Starving" Education on the 'All You Can Eat' Plan (California)
Posted by AVNevis
On News/Activism 01/27/2005 11:34:25 PM CST · 28 replies · 283+ views
McClintock Website ^ | January 25 | Tom McClintock
State schools superintendent Jack O'Connell this week called for massive tax increases for the public school bureaucracy while issuing a blunt warning to Gov. Schwarzenegger: "Stop starving our schools." Here's how the governor is "starving our schools." According to the Legislative Analyst's Office, the governor's proposed budget provides $9,508 for every pupil in the California public schools. That's $206 per pupil more than last year. That means every classroom of 30 students will receive $6,180 more next year than it did this year - or a total of $285,240 per classroom. In fact, over the past ten years, total funding...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1330361/posts
Environmentalists sue to stop logging of sequoias, other trees at California national monument
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1330354/posts
Four California newspapers call for Shelley to go (Hey HEY Ho HO!!! ShmelleyGate got to go!!)
SACRAMENTO (AP) - A fourth major California newspaper called Thursday for the departure of Secretary of State Kevin Shelley from public office, following three other calls by major newspapers since Tuesday for him to resign or be impeached. The Sacramento Bee said Thursday that Shelley has become ineffective while combating numerous charges and investigations into his performance in office.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1329952/posts
California: Governor moves to reopen Kern private prisons. Move prompts outcry from critics
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1326214/posts
FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Police in a prosperous Californian city near San Francisco will begin ignoring most burglar alarms, prompted by too many false alarms and too little money.
Police in California City to Ignore Burglar Alarms
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1325845/posts
Gay Marriage Fight Heads to California
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1330368/posts
CA: Biowasteful spending? DHS can't say how it spent $100 million
California politicians love to gripe about how the state gets shorted by the federal government. Those complaints sound peculiar against the background of some recent news. Over the last three years, the state Department of Health Services has received about $100 million in federal funds to fight bioterrorism, and officials there can't seem to account for it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1330154/posts
CA: Sacking sacks ( San Francisco may tax grocery bags to increase recycling ~SF~ needs money )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1330007/posts
CA: Underfunded national parks must turn away children, study says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1329960/posts
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