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The California Senate chief refuses to hold a hearing for Rachelle Chong, who had the backing of AT & T and Verizon, which benefited from her successful push to deregulate most land-line services. The leader of the state Senate on Tuesday rejected a controversial appointee of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger who had been bidding for a second term on the commission that regulates state utilities.
"Hello, this is Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with another California Report. This week our state Assembly has been debating education legislation that is crucial to the future of California schools.
The state Senate will block confirmation of a Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointee to the Public Utilities Commission because Democratic leaders say she sides too often with the telecommunications industry, a spokesman for Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said Tuesday.
Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson unveiled the new bullet-shaped commercial rocket plane that will give tourists the opportunity to take a ride into space and see the Earth while experiencing the thrill of weightlessness.The spacecraft, about the size of a large business jet with wide windows and seats for six, represents a costly gamble on a commercial space tourism industry.The British ...
Ostensibly, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators are working to qualify California for a big chunk of the $4.35 billion the Obama administration will hand out in grants to improve public education.The “Race to the Top” money, however, is merely a side issue. At best, California might get $700 million in one-time funds, scarcely 1 percent of what the state spends on its 6 million ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday urged state lawmakers to get serious about education reforms California must make to compete for a share of $4.3 billion the Obama administration is offering to improve failing schools.
California's promise of an affordable higher education for its residents is being jeopardized by state budget cuts, the leaders of the state's college and university systems warned.
The state would face numerous procedural hurdles in carrying out capital punishment as in Ohio, which put a murderer to death with single-drug lethal injection. An Ohio murderer put to death with the nation's first single-drug lethal injection died swiftly Tuesday, inaugurating an execution method some analysts consider more humane than the three-drug procedure used in California and 33 other ...
As we finish off with 2009, 2010 is looking like the year of the remake.
The millions of dollars spent on a decade-long effort to create or enlarge coastal sanctuaries could fail to enhance protection for marine life because the state lacks funding to enforce or manage the project.
The California Air Resources Board must decide today whether the bad economy justifies giving truckers and construction firms more breathing room on the state's toughest-in-the-nation diesel pollution regulations.
The sleek, bullet-shaped spacecraft is about the size of a large business jet - with wide windows and seats for six well-heeled passengers to take a thrill ride into space.
"The future of California is tied to education." -- Charles Reed, California State University chancellor, speaking to a state legislative committee Monday In 1960, California adopted a far-reaching plan to offer higher education at little or no cost.
San Francisco - For once in his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger was looking scared. The anxious look c...
Three members of the Orange County Fair Board are abandoning a nonprofit foundation they formed to buy the fairgrounds -- and two believe the rest of their colleagues should disband the group. The resignations crack a shaky foundation, already...
• An overall long-term goal for a new state-of-the-art middle school serving children starting in sixth grade rather than seventh was unanimously approved by the San Bruno Park School District Board of Trustees previously.
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