http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ A quick take on Capitol news. en-us dweintraub 2008-05-13T05:39:37-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012531.html Nissan plans to mass market an electric car by 2010.... 12531@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-13T05:39:37-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012525.html Responding to environmental concerns, Nestle has scaled back its plans for a huge water bottling plant at the base of Mt. Shasta.... 12525@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-12T15:55:42-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012484.html A Rancho Cordova company is designing one of the largest experiments around to inject CO2 from a power plant into the earth rather than emitting the gas into the atmosphere.... 12484@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-12T05:39:46-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012483.html One detail I wasn't able to cram into this column on fourth-grade teacher Elizabeth Nesci: she says she moved to California from Florida after seeing former Gov. Gray Davis touting education reform in a speech on C-Span. Davis was laying... 12483@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-12T05:32:46-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012482.html This story on a new school-within-a-school at LA's notoriously bad Jefferson High School is interesting not just because the students in the smaller school are doing so much better. It's interesting because it shows that LA Unified is focused on... 12482@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-12T05:28:40-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012396.html The city council of Vallejo voted Tuesday night to file for bankruptcy protection. FYI, the most recent annual reports from the state controller show that the city's general purpose revenues climbed dfrom $42 million in 1998-99 to $62 million in... 12396@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-07T09:56:13-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012393.html Pomona has essentially banned convicted sex offenders from legally moving into the city. Opponents of Proposition 83 on the 2006 ballot, known as Jessica's Law, warned that the measure would lead to this and now it has. First came registration,... 12393@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-07T09:39:53-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012376.html Outgoing Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez has introduced a three-part political reform proposal that includes a redistricting commission, a liberalizing of term limits and a ban on fundraising from May 15 until a budget is enacted. Nunez released his proposal on... 12376@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-06T14:25:45-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012368.html This fight over a quarry proposed near Temecula might be a sign of things to come as the cosntruction industry searches for new sources of gravel to build all the highways and bridges that will be funded by the Prop... 12368@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-06T11:29:48-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012303.html We hear a lot of talk about the shortage of nurses in California and elsewhere. A federal study recently projected a shortage of 1 million nurses nationwide by 2020. But this article by a Georgia economist says not to worry.... 12303@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-02T07:56:48-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012289.html Whenever an endangered species battle erupts over a lowly insect, conservative politicians and pundits try to mock those who want to save the bug from extinction. But Matt Weiser's story in today's paper on a newly discovered fly species... 12289@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-01T12:52:10-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012288.html Frank Gehrke measures the paltry snow depth near Echo Summit in the Sierra. Frank Gehrke has been checking the snow's depth and water content every winter and spring for 21 years, and he's rarely seen less snow than he... 12288@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-05-01T12:31:44-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012235.html The FTB has just updated its public list of delinquent taxpayers who owe the state more than $100,000 in taxes. You can find it here. On the top of the list is Pinehill Investment of Rye, NY, which the state... 12235@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-04-29T15:48:50-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012211.html The Register looks at the question and deconstructs the region's housing construction patterns. One finding: new homebuyers (and regulators) are demanding more open space. Ironically, this is probably going to lead to denser development in the "inner cities" of places... 12211@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-04-29T06:23:56-08:00 http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/archives/012210.html Why is it that supposedly freedom-loving places like Santa Monica, Berkeley and San Francisco also seem to have the most intrusive local governments? SF is now issuing $100 citations to people whose city-issued recycling bins are visible from the street.... 12210@http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitol_alert/insider/ 2008-04-29T06:16:37-08:00