Obama Urges Bipartisan Stimulus Support

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(Sacramento) – Today, Assemblymember Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) introduced Assembly Bill 91, which creates a pilot project in four counties that requires the installation of ignition interlock devices (IID) on any vehicle owned or operated by an individual convicted of a driving under the influence (DUI) offense. When installed, an IID links into a vehicle´s ignition system, and a driver blows into the device to start the vehicle.

SACRAMENTO: Senator Sam Aanestad (R-Grass Valley) is joining a large and concerted effort to block the implementation of $10 billion in new taxes approved by the State Legislature last month without the constitutionally required two-thirds vote.

Bill Requires Installation of Ignition Interlock Devices.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has announced the following new laws that go into effect in 2009.

City Councilmembers also get early backing from leading environmental organization.

Mayor Newsom announced a proposed list of revenue increases and spending reductions totaling $118.29 million.

Sacramento - State Senator Huff recently represented California at the American Legislative Exchange Council´s (ALEC) Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force´s annual Tax Academy in Washington, D.C., on December 3, 2008.

WASHINGTON, DC – Emphasizing the importance of transparent and accountable distribution of economic rescue funds, Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (CA-45) today joined 82 of her colleagues in sending a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-08) and Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (MA-04) to request that CEOs from institutions receiving taxpayer funds through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) be called before the Financial Services Committee to answer questions about their use of TARP funds. "American taxpayers deserve to know how their hard-earned money is being spent," said Bono Mack.

SACRAMENTO: Senator Sam Aanestad (R-Grass Valley) says he´s ready to work with the Majority Party in the State Legislature to enact a series of measures to formally address a growing, current year, budget deficit of more than $11 billion.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today Mayor Gavin Newsom signed a resolution endorsing a $2 billion dollar financing plan for the combined redevelopment of Candlestick Point and Phase 2 of the Hunters Point Shipyard. The financing plan will fund the creation of the largest parks project since the construction of Golden Gate Park, over 3,000 below market affordable housing units, and hundreds of millions of dollars of area-wide transit improvements, without using any General Fund dollars. "In these very difficult fiscal times, it is more important than ever that we smartly partner with the private sector to help pay for critical public benefits like parks and affordable housing, and to stimulate huge economic investments in the City, particularly in the Bayveiw Hunters Point community," said Mayor Gavin Newsom. The financing plan also provides for the contribution of at least $100 million dollars of private financing from the project developers towards the construction of a new stadium for the San Francisco 49ers, if the 49ers elect to build a new stadium on the Shipyard. Last year, the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors approved preliminary development plans for the site, that include over 10,000 new homes (more than 32% of which will be offered at below market rates), a 2.5 million square foot green tech campus, over 700,000 square feet of retail, and over 300 acres of new waterfront parks.

Santa Barbara-Assemblymember Pedro Nava, Chair of the Joint Committee on Emergency Services & Homeland Security announced today that an oil spill has occurred off the Carpinteria Coast in Santa Barbara County.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.,/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study released today concludes that state-of-the-science economic models, including those used for CARB's economic analyses of California's Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), are not capable of simulating the fundamental changes in California's economy that AB 32 measures are likely to cause.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Mayor Gavin Newsom and Bike and Roll launched a new neighborhood bike share program that will allow North Beach residents to borrow bicycles for use around San Francisco for leisure or work, or specialized bikes for shopping. "Bike and Roll´s bikesharing program provides neighborhood residents a convenient, healthy way to shop in their neighborhood and travel about town," said Mayor Newsom.

SACRAMENTO, CA – Facing an economic crisis that could leave the state without cash by March 2009, Assemblymember Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge) introduced legislation which would provide California immediate savings by prohibiting any pay raises, bonuses, overtime pay, or any other increase in compensation to state employees earning over $150,000 per year.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Mayor Newsom announced that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger presented the City of San Francisco with the 2008 Governor´s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA).

AB 20 Would Save the State and UC Money by Streamlining Contracting Process.

SACRAMENTO, CA – The State Assembly began its work one hour ahead of schedule yesterday as Assemblymembers, Assemblymembers-Elect, faculty, and students gathered to announce the introduction of a House Resolution that calls for a bold recommitment to public higher education in the United States. "Our current economic crisis has been called the worst since the Great Depression, and most experts fear that more bad news is forthcoming," said Portantino, Chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee.

SACRAMENTO – Protecting the marine environment and reducing fire danger statewide are the primary goals of the first 2009 bill by Sen.

(Sacramento) Assemblymember Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) introduced Assembly Bill 49, which will reduce California´s urban per capita water use by 20 percent by December 31, 2020.

SACRAMENTO –Assemblymember Pedro Nava, Chair of the Banking & Finance Committee announced the introduction of a legislative package to reform regulatory oversight of the financial services and banking industry and provide increased protections for consumers in California. "The time for reform is now.

Sacramento: On the first day of the new legislative session in Sacramento, Assemblymember Kevin Jeffries (R-Lake Elsinore) introduced two bills which will address critical public safety and fire issues facing much of California.

Today Mayor Gavin Newsom unveiled the second webisode of his first-ever, web-only "Interactive State of the City" on his YouTube channel, youtube.com/mayorgavinnewsom. "Instead of a traditional speech behind a podium, this year I am delivering my State of the City address directly to my constituents in a series of ten webisodes," said Newsom.

Sacramento – Senator Jeff Denham (R-Merced) today introduced his "State Properties Reform Package." The first three measures of a multi-bill package are designed to shed the state of underutilized property to raise needed revenue and reduce costs to help cut the multi-billion dollar budget deficit: "California needs to get off its lazy assets," said Denham.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today Mayor Gavin Newsom joined Alaskan Mayors and Oceana, the largest international non-governmental organization focused on ocean conservation, in petitioning the federal government to establish comprehensive regulations for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act. "Coastal communities around the globe, including San Francisco, could be harmed by rising sea levels and ocean temperatures," said Mayor Gavin Newsom.

The University of California Board of Regents decided on Thursday to remove student fee and tuition increases from its budget proposal for the 2009-10 school year. It was a decision that now puts the burden on the state Legislature to either provide funding that would avert the need for such increases or force those enrolled in the UC system to come up with the money themselves. The move - depending on who you talked to - was a strategic triumph, a bad idea or totally meaningless. "For the first time in my recollection, the budget goes forward without student fee increases in it," said Lt.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums announced a nine-step policy plan for transforming the Bay Area into the "Electric Vehicle (EV) Capital of the U.S." In conjunction with the news, Better Place, a global electric transportation company, announced that it would enter the U.S. market with California as its first state, beginning in the Bay Area. "Our aim is to make the Bay Area — and eventually California — the electric vehicle capital of the U.S.," said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Commercial availability of electric cars is targeted to begin in 2012, and Better Place estimates its network investment in the Bay Area will total $1 billion when the system is fully deployed.

A State Auditor´s review of five large state agencies has discovered improper disposal of hazardous electronic waste contrary to state requirements.

LONG BEACH – Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi, a California State University trustee, today joined 150 protesters in Long Beach to fight the proposed state budget cuts that will prevent 10,000 qualified students from being admitted to CSU campuses and reduce the quality of education of California´s future workforce.

SACRAMENTO — California Attorney General Edmund G.

Sacramento, CA – Assemblymember Pedro Nava, Chair of the Joint Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security and member of the Governor´s Emergency Council announced that disaster relief legislation is being drafted for victims of the Santa Barbara County Tea Fire. "My measure will bring much needed assistance to those who suffer losses and devastation as a result of the Tea Fire currently being fought in Santa Barbara County," said Nava.

SACRAMENTO - Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi, who serves as a University of California regent and a California State University trustee, said today´s announcement that the CSU system will eliminate 10,000 admission spots for the 2009-10 school year will in the long-term damage California´s economy and ability to compete. "The bottom line is there will be 10,000 qualified California graduating students from the largest high school senior class ever in California´s history who will not get into the CSU system because of budget cuts and the probability that next year´s budget will be even worse," Lieutenant John Garamendi said.

SHANGHAI, CHINA – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom joined Vincent H.S.

SACRAMENTO – The Green Party will assume the No.

(SACRAMENTO) – Senate President pro Tem Don Perata (D-Oakland) and Senate President pro Tem-Elect Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said that legislative leaders should begin meeting daily to hammer out an agreement on how to tackle the state´s growing budget deficit. California´s tax revenues are now expected to be $11.2 billion lower than assumed in the 2008-09 budget, which was signed two months ago.

SACRAMENTO – Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi issued the following statement on the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States of America: "The voters have spoken and made history.

LANCASTER, CA – As part of her campaign to create a stronger economy for the region, Democratic Assembly Candidate Linda Jones (36th District) today announced her "High Desert Region Green Jobs Initiative" - using ´green jobs´ to increase opportunities for unemployed and underemployed adults in the High Desert communities.

SACRAMENTO - The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held its first-ever special sitting in Sacramento to hear an appeal of California´s violent video game law authored by Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo). In 2005, the Legislature passed and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Los Angeles) signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 1179 to prevent the sale and rental of violent video games that depict serious injury to human beings in a manner that is especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, by persons who are under 18 years of age.

Taxpayers Association smears Democrats running for nonpartisan offices.

To do so, two Virginia Tech geotechnical engineering students went to New Orleans and obtained about 2,000 pounds of different soil samples that have organic contents greater than nine percent.

While in Bangladesh, Uddin will work with local educators and researchers to study the feasibility, reliability and livability of low cost coastal housing designed to endure hurricanes using environmentally friendly composite building techn

The National Science Foundation-funded study group is developing a strategic plan for sustaining barrier island ecosystems in the face of increases in storm frequency and intensity, as well as sea level rise associated with global climate c

One way you can stimulate the economy at very little cost is to lower or, at minimum, freeze the existing tax rates on long-term capital gains.

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The page- in PDF form at http:// www.uiowa. edu/ifdebook/ timeline/Credit_ Crisis_ Timeline. pdf- has a meticulously detailed timeline of events leading up to the economic collapse, and it highlights news reports of every struggling investm

The Babson College/Olin College team, Bottled Solutions, won Best Overall award.

E.M. " Mick" Kolassa, who earned his doctorate in pharmacy at the UM School of Pharmacy in 1995, owns Medical Marketing Economics, which deals with research and pricing strategies in the pharmaceutical industry.

The Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative was co-founded and is supported by the United Nations Global Compact and the European Foundation for Management Development ( EFMD).

Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST)

" A 62.3 percent increase in Buffalo Wild Wings value and a 9.2 percent share gain by McDonald's, in addition to positive returns by another 23 components of the index, shielded the index from the brutal fall suffered by the broader indices

Give Kids A Smile stems from a partnership among the Dental School, the Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore, and the Maryland State Dental Association.

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