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SACRAMENTO - Voters may not face another round of huge public works bonds in two years, as originally planned, according to state officials who gathered Tuesday to eye effective use of a $37 billion bond package approved last month. While acknowledging the measures as a down payment on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's $200 billion infrastructure repair and construction plan, legislative representatives said there may not be a need for another transportation bond proposal as soon as 2008. The $20 billion transportation bond voters approved Nov. 7 -- together with a voter-approved measure that ensures gasoline taxes earmarked for use on roads...

WASHINGTON - The operator of the state's power grid said Wednesday that it expects to have ample power to meet peak summer demands. "We are fine, but it is going to be tight in the south," Yakout Mansour, chief executive of the Folsom-based California Independent System Operator, said at a news conference at the National Press Club. He said Southern California customers can expect conditions similar to last year ... --snip-- Mansour said that overall, conditions have improved dramatically over the 2000-2001 period when the state faced tight supplies, escalating prices, rolling blackouts and market manipulation. ... --snip-- Growth in...

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reason.org For Immediate Release: August 21, 2003 SAN FRANCISCO – In his “no apology” speech on Tuesday, California Governor Gray Davis said that he “takes responsibility” for the “difficult time” California is experiencing. But he failed to mention that California’s budget crisis could have been averted if he had continued the assessment of the state’s core governing functions started by former governor Pete Wilson, thereby limiting spending to essential government services.In 1995, Governor Wilson requested that all agencies examine their missions and determine their core responsibilities. The Governor’s Council on Information Technology reported in 1995: “Just as California’s families focus...

AWESOME This is almost overwhelming when you think about it. You MUST read to the end: (smile) Moses and the people were in the desert, but what was he going to do ith them? They had to be fed, and feeding 2 or 3 million people requires a lot of food. According to the Quartermaster General in the Army, it is reported that Moses would have to have had 1500 tons of food each day. Do you know that to bring that much food each day, two freight trains, each at least a mile long, would be required! Besides you...