The Sacramento Bee ran this op-ed from Assemblymember Alyson Huber on Wednesday.
The governor has been traversing the state touting his water deal, calling it a historic achievement. Rather than making history by crafting a comprehensive solution to our water crisis that everyone can agree on, this water deal promises [...]
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Our hiatus has come to an end for the Capital Notes Podcast, and we're back with our mostly snarky, occasionally thought provoking weekly dish on politics.
This week: a look back on the big water deal, the guessing game of who gets to be California's next "lite'" [...]
"We were completely rolled" said one Contra Costa County Supervisor, and that pretty much says it all. Bay Area and Delta Counties are none too happy with the new water deal, and taxpayers may soon join that sentiment... here's the situation as we see it:
The legislature has passed a sweeping water bill that will [...]
"We were completely rolled" said one Contra Costa County Supervisor, and that pretty much says it all. Bay Area and Delta Counties are none too happy with the new water deal, and taxpayers may soon join that sentiment... here's the situation as we see it:
The legislature has passed a sweeping water bill that will [...]
While Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Los Angeles) called today’s signing of several water bills “historic,” several San Francisco leaders and environmentalists object to the water deal and believe that it is more of a 19th Century solution to a current day problem.
“This water package [...]
Comedian Paul Rodriguez, who helped lead the California Latino Water Coalition, appeared with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at an event in Los Angeles today. He suggested the next dam be named after Schwarzenegger, and talked about the water coalition:
Some of you are wondering, what the hell am I doing here? I [...]This won't take long to spell out. How long it'll take to fix, I don't know.
Spinning around the radio dial Wednesday, I alighted on a news story about the water deal reached in Sacramento. The announcer said something to the effect that the deal balances both ''human and environmental'' concerns.
What? Stop! When [...]
by David M. Greenwald
Editor
California Progress Report
While the Governor and Democratic Leadership are lauding the water deal as an historic achievement, local leaders and environmental groups are lamenting it as the prelude to a peripheral canal that will end the delta as we know [...]
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? Meg Whitman has already spent $19 million, and plans on spending a lot [...]
There was some question as to what the [...]
As usual, Republicans held up approval of the package [...]
Capitol Insiders' Twitter fees lit up at around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, leading some of us to question who was up too late, and who was up too early. Turns out the Assembly decided to burn the midnight oil and bang out the water deal once and for all. Now at an $11 billion [...]
