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Community Calendar
Sep 2, 2010 — The Oakland Tribune
Sept. 9, guest fee $3, El Cerrito Community Center, 7007 Moeser Lane, 510-233-9365. religion --Kol Hadash -- Events, Rosh Hashanah, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 8, Northbrae Community Church, 941 the Alameda, Pre-Tashlikh Walk, meditative walk, 10:30 a.m., Noon Tashlikh and Picnic, Sept. 9, Tilden Park, Day Solano Stroll Table, can be found between Tulare and Ventura Streets, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sept. 12, Yom Kippur, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17, Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Ave., Albany,...
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Five vie for three seats on Discovery Bay board
Sep 2, 2010 — Contra Costa Times
Incumbents Brian Dawson and Kevin Graves, appointed to the board last winter, are hoping to win election to full terms. Water and wastewater management constitute two of the board's three responsibilities, the other being landscaping. Dawson's appointment last winter caused some grumbling among board members and residents. When two vacancies arose on the board, Piepho differed with the other two directors about filling one of the seats.
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Highest paid county employees - HHSA doctors top pay list
Sep 2, 2010 — The Porterville Recorder
He was paid a total of $190,127.96.
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Ban on plastic bags rejected
Sep 1, 2010 — Ventura County Star
The plastics industry lobbied heavily against the measure. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, warned that if the measure failed in the Senate that local government officials in Los Angeles would begin working today on county and city legislation to ban the bags. Mimi Walters, R-Irvine. Countered Cedillo: "The bags already cost.
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Governor says it takes more courage, not more time, to pass budget
Sep 1, 2010 — Ventura County Star
...tax reform panel last year, would expand sales taxes to cover most services (they are now levied only on tangible goods). That change, administration officials say, would allow the state to receive the same amount of revenue while also lowering income taxes paid by high-income earners and lowering the sales tax rate across the board. The changes would be designed to lessen the volatility of the state's revenue stream, which is now largely dependent on personal income taxes paid by the...
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Los Medanos Health Care District race focuses on spending practices
Sep 1, 2010 — Contra Costa Times
...grand jury report, it has a good way to go," said Fardella, a Pittsburg planning commissioner who runs a small business in the city. Contra Costa pays $100,000 a year in rent to the district for the former Los Medanos Hospital building, a figure that is far below market value, Fardella said. Condit said the district keeps the rent low so that the county can provide additional health services to Pittsburg residents. Strong, a health care staffing coordinator for Kaiser...
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Looming tax cut debate already ripples through Boxer-Fiorina race
Aug 31, 2010 — San Jose Mercury News
A May poll by the Public Policy Institute of California suggests, at first blush, that Boxer's position is a popular one.
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Runner asks court to reverse federal order
Aug 31, 2010 — Daily Press (Victorville, Calif.)
...t h re e -j u d ge p a n e l 's decision affirmatively threatens public safety." The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 states a federal court "shall enter a prisoner release order only if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that crowding is the primary cause of the violation of a federal right and no other relief will remedy the violation of the federal right." According to Runner, California inmates have lower mortality rates t h a n i n m at e s f ro m 37 other...
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Sen. Runner asks court to reverse early release of 38,000 prisoners
Aug 31, 2010 — The Desert Dispatch
Aug. 31, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- SACRAMENTO --Sen.
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Taxpayers fund mayor's double benefits
Aug 31, 2010 — The Orange County Register
Cavecche also does not currently have city health coverage, although she does get $17,700 a year from the city to cover insurance and other benefits, which she currently puts into a savings plan.
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Unemployment, and my new car
Aug 31, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
I am embarrassed about it because my husband has a good job. Now my unemployment barely covers our COBRA payment.My old car, with 150,000 miles, is paid off, and I gave it to my daughter to get her to work and school. I wanted to keep working at that job.
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Valley counties rank high in new obesity study
Aug 31, 2010 — The Fresno Bee
Obesity can lead to diabetes. Merced and Tulare were the second- and third-fattest counties behind Imperial County. More than 34% of Merced County's population, and 31.1% of people in Tulare County were obese. In Fresno County, 28.7% of the population was obese, the lowest in the Valley, but the 12th fattest in the state.
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BRIEF
Aug 30, 2010 — The Business Press
...mission, defined their principal customers and their expectations, and indicated how they are striving to meet their customers' needs. The facility's achievement will be formally honored along with the other Quality Award winners at the AHCA/NCAL Annual Convention held Oct. 10 -- 13 in Long Beach. The AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award was created in 1996 and is modeled after criteria from the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's premier recognition for quality...
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The Sacramento Bee, Calif., Dan Walters column
Aug 30, 2010 — The Sacramento Bee
Now they want to repeal them via a ballot initiative, Proposition 24. Democrats are also sending Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a series of bills that would require more reportage of business tax breaks and limit their existence. Schwarzenegger and GOP legislators are flatly rejecting any tax hikes as damaging to the economy.
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San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Mike Cassidy column
Aug 29, 2010 — San Jose Mercury News
McNealy is taking on an educational bureaucracy that is notoriously hidebound. I can't say that Curriki is the answer. And even McNealy, a fierce competitor in golf, hockey and business, says this isn't some contest that Curriki must win.
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UCD Med Center's new pavilion is a leap into the future
Aug 29, 2010 — The Sacramento Bee
While much of the new building is not yet operational, some areas are already open -- including a new dining area that looks more like a restaurant than a hospital cafeteria.
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Pacific Plastic and Engineering expands facility, adds jobs
Aug 28, 2010 — Santa Cruz Sentinel
The smaller incision speeds up recovery and shortens the patient's hospital stay, reducing the overall cost. Before 1990, laparoscopy was used for tubal ligation, a procedure to prevent pregnancy. Jimmy Chung, a Santa Cruz surgeon, performed a laparoscopic colectomy using a single incision instead of the usual three to five incisions. The operation at Dominican Hospital was the first of its kind in Santa Cruz County. Dominican's chief medical officer, Dr.
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Marin hospital district sues Sutter Health
Aug 27, 2010 — The Sacramento Bee
Sutter" before transferring management of the Greenbrae hospital to the Marin Healthcare District. "Sutter asked Marin General for a 'divorce' and then decided they'd just clean out the bank account before the divorce became final," said attorney James Brosnahan, who filed the lawsuit on the district's behalf. According to the 50-page suit, Sutter transferred about $30 million a year from Marin General's reserves into Sutter accounts, starting in 2006. A Sutter Health...
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Reform to further strain health work force
Aug 27, 2010 — The Record (Stockton, Calif.)
These work-force issues are not in isolation.
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California won't block individual health care rate hikes
Aug 26, 2010 — The Sacramento Bee
The public furor helped revive the national effort to overhaul health care. Most people get their health insurance coverage through their employer, while a small fraction purchase their own policies.
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