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New rules trip up caregivers, cost state more

Advocates for the disabled and for counties told the Assembly Budget Committee that the public is incurring new costs because state officials refused to delay the Nov. 1 start of new rules governing In-Home Supportive Services. The welfare program pays ...

From MARISA LAGOS, San Francisco Chronicle,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Noreen Evans

Fiorina gets down to business

Fiorina -- who recently beat breast cancer -- announced her Senate candidacy this week. Newly-announced U.S. Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina swept through Sacramento Thursday, where she spoke to a building trade gathering about the importance of job ...

From MARISA LAGOS, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Carly Fiorina,  Barbara Boxer,  U.S. Republican Party,  Chuck DeVore

Legislature passes water-system overhaul

The historic legislation, praised by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, enables the state to closely control water delivery and use statewide. It imposes strict conservation rules in urban areas and supports the restoration of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River ...

From WYATT BUCHANAN,MARISA LAGOS, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Darrell Steinberg,  Mark Leno,  Karen Bass,  Chuck DeVore

California legislature passes major water changes

The package of legislation will impact how Californians will receive and use water and won immediate praise from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "Water is the lifeblood of everything we do in California," the Republican governor said. "Without clean, ...

From WYATT BUCHANAN,MARISA LAGOS, San Francisco Chronicle,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Arnold Schwarzenegger,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Darrell Steinberg

S.F. nonprofit may lose stimulus money

It's not the first time the Economic Opportunity Council of San Francisco, which runs child development programs and other efforts to fight the effects of poverty, has run into trouble. In 1998, the agency had to relinquish control of a publicly funded ...

From MARISA LAGOS, San Francisco Chronicle,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jack O'Connell,  Dwayne Jones

Major components of water overhaul pass Senate

Legislative leaders say their proposals create "coequal goals" of a more reliable water supply system for the state and a restored ecosystem in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The Senate approved a $9.99 billion bond, a new state agency for the ...

From WYATT BUCHANAN,MARISA LAGOS, San Francisco Chronicle,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Joe Simitian

Garrido hearing attracts 1976 victim

Katie Callaway Hall glared at Garrido from the front row of the gallery in El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville as he and his wife, Nancy Garrido, sat through a procedural hearing. Hall was kidnapped and repeatedly raped by Phillip Garrido ...

From MARISA LAGOS, San Francisco Chronicle,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nancy Garrido,  Phillip Garrido,  Jaycee Dugard

State paid millions in overtime to its workers

Some workers at the Napa State Hospital and Sonoma Developmental Center more than doubled their pay with overtime while their co-workers received little or no extra work, an audit released this week found. The state paid $2.1 billion in overtime to ...

From MARISA LAGOS, San Francisco Chronicle,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Department of Corrections,  California Highway Patrol

SFPD decrees Halloween in Castro is dead

"There will be no City-sponsored venue in the Castro district for Halloween, Saturday, October 31. There will be no official entertainment provided and no street closures are planned. "The San Francisco Police Department will be enforcing a ...

From HEATHER KNIGHT, MARISA LAGOS, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sean Elsbernd,  Ross Mirkarimi,  National Park Service,  Ken Venturi

Residents want curbs on state pension benefits

Forty percent of the 1,000 registered voters polled said the pension benefits received by most state and local government workers in California are about right, while 32 percent considered them too generous. Just 16 percent said the benefits are not ...

From MARISA LAGOS, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

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