State to audit family courts in Marin Sacramento
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- State to audit family courts in Marin Sacramento
- How the budget crisis has unfolded in Sacramento
- Chicago Sky defeats Sacramento Monarchs 74-72
- Sacramento agency pulls support for transmission lines
- Witnesses denounce capital punishment at Sacramento hearing
- January’s rain deficit hurt Sacramento annual total
State to audit family courts in Marin Sacramento
San Jose Mercury News
—State officials are calling for an investigation into the family court systems in Marin and Sacramento counties after a relatively high number of complaints from their litigants. The state’s Joint Legislative Audit Committee voted Wednesday to conduct audits on the two counties. Auditors will investigate how court-appointed specialists such as mediators investigators and therapists are selected. The audit will also look into how the appointees are trained and evaluated and how their fees and complaints against them are resolved. Critics say appointees can create a system that is more concerned about making money than helping children get through custody battles.
How the budget crisis has unfolded in Sacramento
San Francisco Chronicle
Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a fiscal emergency saying the state faces a $14. 5 billion deficit through June 2009.
Chicago Sky defeats Sacramento Monarchs 74-72
Chicago Tribune
A furious late fourth-quarter spree — including seven straight points from guard Jia Perkins — propelled the Sky to a 74-72 victory over the Sacramento Monarchs. The Sky improved to 6-3 on the season and remains unbeaten (5-0) at home. The Sky is three games over. 500 for the first time in its four-year history. Sacramento (1-8) led for much of the game behind the sharpshooting of forward Nicole Powell who wound up with 21 points.
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Sacramento agency pulls support for transmission lines
Appeal-Democrat
A spokesman for the Transmission Agency of Northern California said with the district’s decision to withdraw other agency members will re-evaluate the project. “bviously this is a major development so some things will change” said TANC spokesman Brendan Wonnacott based in Sacramento. “The bottom line is we believe this line is needed. TANC had three proposed routes for the transmission lines: one down the western side of the Sacramento Valley through part of Colusa County; one that would have bisected Sutter County near the Sutter Buttes; one through Yuba County east of Marysville on the valley floor.
Witnesses denounce capital punishment at Sacramento hearing
Los Angeles Times
nly two of some 50 speakers at a hearing before officials of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation expressed support for resuming executions if and when the procedures earn state and federal approval. The death penalty has been on hold in California since February 2006 out of concern that the former lethal-injection practices subjected some of those put to death to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution. Religious leaders teachers medical professionals and relatives of both condemned prisoners and their victims called for an end to executions. Gavin Lee a doctoral candidate at UC Irvine who studies lethal injection criticized the proposed procedural provisions as still insufficient to ensure that a condemned prisoner is unconscious by the time the last painful and fatal dose in the three-injection practice is administered.
January’s rain deficit hurt Sacramento annual total
Sacramento Bee
3 2009 – 12:00 am| Page 3B As 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 precipitation would not have hurt. Predictions from the National Weather Service provide no hope that the new rain season – it runs annually from July 1 through June 30 – will start any differently than the previous one ended: It will be warm and dry. This holiday weekend forecast is for mostly clear skies and high temperatures in Sacramento reaching 96 degrees on Independence Day. After that experts say to expect a moderate slide to 92 degrees Sunday and into the mid-80s the first three days of next week. Weather service forecaster Johnnie Powell provided a breakdown of precipitation data for the just-ended rain season:• Total rainfall: 16.
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