Friday 3rd July, 2009
Palin resigning as Alaska governor on July 26
The Sacramento BeeThe former Republican vice presidential candidate made the...
Fire scorches Sacramento auto body shop
The Sacramento BeeThe Sacramento Fire Department is investigating a two-alarm fire at Bertolucci's Body & Fender auto body shop building early this morning.A bicyclist reported the fire at 1751 34th St. just before 3...
Sacramento firefighters agree to wage freeze
The Sacramento BeeSacramento city firefighters approved an agreement Friday to freeze their salaries for 30 months, ensuring none of them will be laid off for at least a year.If the agreement on salary concessions had...
Walter L. Barkdull was corrections official under five California governors
The Sacramento BeeWalter L. Barkdull, a former news reporter who mingled with celebrities before serving as a top state corrections official under five California governors, has died at age 87.He died of...
SMUD pullout dims hopes for big power project
The Sacramento BeeThe public comment period will be extended as officials of the Transmission Agency of Northern California assess the viability of the $1.5 billion 600-mile high voltage power-line project. ...
Deadline passes for California's new-home tax credit
The Sacramento BeeThey're gone for now.The California Franchise Tax Board announced the end Thursday to new applications for a $10,000 state tax credit that was snapped up faster than expected by buyers of new...
Sacramento County workers lose sense of security
The Sacramento BeeTerri Petersen has gone through a series of difficult life circumstances, but now she'll have to endure another blow losing her job as a cook in the Senior Nutrition Services program for...
Schwarzenegger shares blame on chronic deficits
The Sacramento BeeRemember the Arnold Schwarzenegger who, exactly five years ago, denounced state legislators as "girlie men" beholden to unions because they failed to pass a state budget? He's back, sensing that time...
2 moms turn grief over teens' deaths into plea for safety
The Sacramento BeeHad they lived, Kendall Lui and Brian Haight would have graduated from college this spring. They were smart and ambitious, filled with talent and sweetness, the kind of young people whom parents...
Cash-dry California starts churning out the IOUs
The Sacramento BeeMichael Yu, a systems analyst with the state controller's office, processes registered warrants that were being issued Thursday. The IOUs promise a 3.75 percent annualized interest rate and...
California budget gap grows $25 million a day
The Sacramento BeeWith California's budget gap growing by millions each day, Thursday marked a roller coaster of Capitol emotion that veered from optimism about prospects for a deal to eruption of a new fight over...
January's rain deficit hurt Sacramento annual total
The Sacramento BeeAs the Sacramento region settles into its annual stretch of dry summer weather, data from the official rain season that ended Tuesday show that though it could have been worse, a little more...
West Sacramento teens make their voices heard at City Hall
The Sacramento BeeTeenagers complain that no one listens to them. In West Sacramento, their voices are being heard.For three months, a group of teens armed with cameras and microphones roamed the streets, documenting...
State budget crisis scuttles Delta levee hazard detection, repairs
The Sacramento BeeArgus Technologies project manager Mara Johnson scans a levee in Natomas on Friday. The company's imaging system uses an electromagnetic sensor, pulled behind an all-terrain vehicle, to "see inside"...
Here's how you can rescue pets left by others
The Sacramento BeeTalk about a lesson learned.Last Friday's Home Front item about Sacramento Realtor Donald Stitt finding so many abandoned pets these days in repossessed homes drew a barrage of reader criticism for...
Budget battle lines forming over school funding
The Sacramento BeeWith California's budget gap growing by millions each day, Thursday marked a roller coaster of Capitol emotion that veered from optimism about prospects for a deal to eruption of a new fight over...
'Furlough Fridays' for all Not so fast
The Sacramento BeeMost state employees started work Wednesday morning knowing that their pay in coming months will be nearly 5 percent less than June's, since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has added a third monthly...
DMV offices to close three Fridays
The Sacramento Bee... and 24, to comply with the governor's furlough order, department officials said.DMV field offices...
Schwarzenegger hopes IOUs sway budget debate
The Sacramento BeeMembers of SEIU Local 1000, representing 95,Buses from Southern California, Central Valley and the San...
Board sets rate, date for IOUs
The Sacramento BeeState finance officials set a 3.75 percent interest rate and an Oct. 2 redemption date this morning for the IOUs that begin going out this afternoon, while legislators and the governor continue to...
Rival states hope California's economic woes will send businesses their way
The Sacramento BeeCalifornia's budget crisis is turning into a worldwide spectacle that could harm the state's business climate and chase companies away.Rival states are revving up their economic-development...
Judge eyes quick action on Calif gay marriage ban
The Sacramento BeeA federal judge in San Francisco says he wants to conduct a full trial on a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban because he expects the case to one day...
Just destroy class DVD, district tells parents
The Sacramento BeeElk Grove Unified officials have rescinded a request for parents to return DVDs that included "inappropriate images" they say were inadvertently sent home with students at Isabelle Jackson...
Applications for home-buying tax credit to be cut off today
The Sacramento BeeThey're almost gone.The California Franchise Tax Board announced this morning it will pull the plug on its fax machine at midnight tonight, accepting no more applications for a $10,000 tax credit for...
Swine flu quarantine at San Quentin prison
ExaminerSan Quentin State Prison inmates have been quarantined while officials investigate 30 suspected cases of swine flu.Luis Patino, spokesman for the federal receiver who runs prison medical care, says...
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