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		<title>Illegal immigrants would be harder to deport under immigration bill &#8212;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A California lawmaker is making a renewed push to limit the detention and deportation of immigrants who are in the country illegally after his legislation was vetoed last year by Gov. Jerry Brown.  LA Times article;Sacramento Bee article]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Walters: A perilous tax trend materializes –</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When voters passed Proposition 30 last year, they unwittingly accelerated one of the most perilous trends in California governmental finance – an ever-increasing reliance on income taxes from rich people to finance schools and myriad other state and local services.  Walters column in Sacramento Bee]]></description>
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		<title>Council approves long-range plan to manage Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta –</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A California agency on Thursday unanimously adopted a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. After several hours of public comments and protests by opponents, the Delta Stewardship Council voted 7-0 to approve the final version of the Delta Plan, a blueprint for restoring the delta&#8217;s ecosystem and improving water-supply reliability. AP article; Stockton Record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge to hear lawsuit over high-speed rail bonds –</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State officials on Thursday agreed to drop a request to consolidate all lawsuits challenging California&#8217;s use of voter-approved high-speed rail bonds, allowing a trial seeking to stop their sale to begin later this month.  AP article; Fresno Bee article]]></description>
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		<title>Obama says ‘no apologies’ over U.S. security leak probe &#8212;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama said on Thursday he makes &#8220;no apologies&#8221; for his concern about leaks to the media that could compromise U.S. national security or put American military and intelligence officers at risk. Reuters article]]></description>
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		<title>Governor’s budget proposal to provide millions for jobs in Valley &#8212;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown&#8217;s new budget proposal pours millions of dollars into California&#8217;s welfare-to-work program, offering a boost for the Valley, where unemployment ranks among the highest in the state. The governor&#8217;s plan adds roughly $48 million to bolster employment services statewide for the jobless and subsidize the payrolls of businesses that hire off the unemployment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers test Brown’s no-tax resolve with call to hike levies –</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democrats who control the Legislature have proposed about 20 tax and fee measures affecting such things as soda, cigarettes, plastic bags and bullets.  LA Times article]]></description>
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		<title>UC Merced expansion proposal approved –</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A plan to reshape the face of the UC Merced campus by developing more buildings on less acreage through partnerships with private firms won approvalTuesday of the Board of Regents. The plan was praised by regents as an innovative approach to solving the capital-development needs of the UC system&#8217;s newest campus amid ongoing state budget challenges.  Merced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California short on key state water workers, officials say &#8212;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California officials say the state cannot retain enough trained workers to efficiently run and maintain its complex water delivery system, a problem that has consequences for cities and farms statewide.  Sacramento Bee article]]></description>
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		<title>Human trafficking focus of conference &#8212;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When thinking about crime in the Central Valley, thoughts often turn to gangs and burglaries. Not many bring up human trafficking, which generates an estimated $32 billion worldwide every year. Soroptimist International of Hanford hopes to change public perception this week. On Thursday, they will host a free conference at the Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino [...]]]></description>
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