California on Wednesday November 04, 2009

CA: California Legislature passes state water conservation bill
By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times
The state Legislature finished with one piece of a multi-part water package Tuesday when the Assembly approved a bill mandating a statewide drop in per capita water use.
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CA: Legislators call for inquiry into former Brown communications director
By Staff Reports, The Sacramento Bee
Two Republican state lawmakers sent a letter Tuesday calling for an investigation into reports that Attorney General Jerry Brown's top spokesman recorded phone conversations with reporters without their consent.
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CA: Card clubs and other special interests give to Jerry Brown charities
By Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles Times
Gambling halls and arts education may make strange bedfellows. But over the last three years, five Los Angeles-area card clubs have showered more than $100,000 on a Bay Area school for the arts some 400 miles away.
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CA: Meg Whitman's campaign spending is causing a stir
By Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles Times
The Republican gubernatorial candidate in California has spent $19 million so far, with the election still seven months away. Her pace is called 'unprecedented' by one campaign veteran.
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CA: Environmental groups turn in paperwork for DMV fee to fund California state parks
By Paul Rogers, The Mercury News (San Jose)
Hoping to break the recent cycle of proposed state parks closures, a coalition of California environmental groups took the first major step Tuesday toward qualifying a measure for next November's ballot that would roughly double the state parks budget by imposing a new annual fee on vehicle registration.
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CA: Water plan has local goodie
By Steve Wiegand and Jim Sanders , The Sacramento Bee
A nonprofit tolerance center in midtown Sacramento, championed by state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, could get a vital economic boost from an unlikely source: a mammoth $10 billion water bond proposal.
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CA: Garamendi wins Tauscher's seat in special election
By Judy Lin, The Sacramento Bee
Democrats retained control of a left-leaning Northern California congressional district Tuesday, electing a career politician who said he will side faithfully with the Obama administration on health care, climate legislation and other hot-button policies.
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