Judge Thomas Anderle rejected arguments that Measure A-the half-cent sales tax confronting voters on this November’s ballot to fund a wide array of transportation and road repair projects-was invalid because no environmental analysis had been conducted on the impacts all the projects might generate.
John MacKinnon takes on Jed Beebe for the black robe.
Tuesday event aimed to draw attention to contract negotiations.
Honored in a Long Beach ceremony by the League of California Cities.
Of all the ballot initiatives confronting voters this November, Measure G enjoys the dubious distinction of being the most obscure. In fact, the Measure G campaign is only just now coming together.
The Santa Barbara News-Press and its owner, Wendy McCaw, lost a legal tussle over the First Amendment last week in Orange County, where a Superior Court judge affirmed that none of the 33 alleged libelous statements contained in Susan Paterno’s December 2006 American Journalism Review article “Santa Barbara Smackdown” were provably false.
Ambulance drivers and emergency response workers rejected the offer of a 13 percent raise.
New offshore leasing measure, however, drew criticism from both liberals and conservatives.
React to appellate judges’ ruling that the practice was unconstitutional.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife proposes raising the species’ critical habitat to 180,000 acres.
