Interior Dept.: Calif water a national priority
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- Interior Dept.: Calif water a national priority
- McClatchy extends wage freeze
- Brunson leads Monarchs in win over Silver Stars
- Fugitive Sex ffender Returned To Sacramento
- FHS football to play in 1st Annual West Coast Classic in Sacramento
- Lawsuits are the latest roadblock for California budget
Interior Dept.: Calif water a national priority
The Associated Press
: Calif water a national priorityBy GARANCE BURKE(AP)–29 minutes agoSACRAMENT Calif. — Top bama administration officials say fixing California’s ongoing water crisis is a national priority akin to restoring Florida’s Everglades or the Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast. Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes says the administration plans to host a meeting in Washington next month designed to spur solutions. Hayes made the announcement while in Sacramento Wednesday to discuss federal efforts to free up water for irrigation and drinking water supplies as the state experiences its third year of drought. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will hold a similar meeting in September about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The large freshwater estuary supplies drinking water to two-thirds of Californians and serves as one of the most important wildlife habitats on the West Coast.
McClatchy extends wage freeze
Bizjournals.com
will extend its companywide pay freeze until at least the end of the year ending hope by employees that pay increases would resume next month. The Sacramento-based company — publisher of the Wichita Eagle and 29 other daily newspapers — announced a one-year companywide pay freeze in September. McClatchy treasurer Elaine Lintecum said the pay freeze would continue through December according to a report in the Kansas City Business Journal a sister publication to the Wichita Business Journal. McClatchy like most newspaper publishers is battling declining revenue and fewer print subscribers especially during the 20-month-old recession. Last month the nation’s third-largest newspaper chain reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings — $42. 2 million compared to $19.
Brunson leads Monarchs in win over Silver Stars
The Associated Press
Nicole Powell added 17 points for the Monarchs (6-17). Scholanda Robinson scored 13 points Kara Lawson had 12 and Ticha Penicheiro added 11 assists. Brunson who returned to the lineup on Saturday after missing the previous seven games with a right knee strain hit 8 of 10 shots as Sacramento shot 56 percent from the field. Sophia Young scored 14 points and Vickie Johnson had 12 to lead the Silver Stars (10-12) who have lost four of their last six and squandered a chance to move into a tie with Minnesota for third place in the Western Conference.
Fugitive Sex ffender Returned To Sacramento
KCRA.com
– A fugitive registered sex offender and convicted child molester has been returned to California after his capture in Minnesota the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department says. Wednesday August 12 2009.
FHS football to play in 1st Annual West Coast Classic in Sacramento
Reno Gazette Journal
5 at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento. In that game Fernley will play a California Interscholastic Federation Section champion in Whitney High of Rocklin (east of Sacramento on I-80) with that game expected to open the day with a 1 p. This first-annual one-day high school varsity football showcase will feature some of the top teams in northern California along with a top team from northern Nevada in Fernley with coach Jeff Knutson expecting to field one of the best teams in school history.
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Lawsuits are the latest roadblock for California budget
Los Angeles Times
YSArticleContent { background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:18px;line-height:16px; }–>Lawsuits are the latest roadblock for California budgetLitigators go to court to undo cuts made by legislators and the governor. The state is spending billions of dollars fighting the lawsuits and dealing with increasingly unfavorable rulings. By Evan Halper August 10 2009Reporting from Sacramento — Well-connected lobbyists political pressure and a good turnout at committee hearings used to be the special interest recipe for protecting turf in the state budget. Now a potent new ingredient is being increasingly thrown into the mix: top-shelf litigators. Lawyers are being drafted in droves to unravel spending plans passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor. The goal of these litigators is to get back money their clients lost in the budget process. They are havingconsiderable success winning one lawsuit after another costing the state billions of dollars and throwing California’s budget process into further tumult.
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