The Federal Trade Commission is trumpeting its settlement with Intel Corp. as a victory for consumers who have overpaid for computer chips for a decade, though computer buyers shouldn’t expect a sudden drop in prices.
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Developer’s woes make city anxious about railyard project
One of the railyard’s two bridge projects, for Fifth Street to connect the development with downtown, has begun. Construction manager Steve Tuthill, left, and engineer Juan Zermeno of Vali Cooper & Associates walk out of an excavated pit last month
Public Eye Update: Flood agency mum about raise rumors
This blog previously reported our efforts to find out if the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency was about to give large compensation increases for its staff members. The agency is governed by representatives from several local government bodies and is mainly funded by the state. Government employees are suffering from furloughs and layoffs in the continuing economic malaise (as Sacramento County’s grim numbers below show.) As of Friday afternoon, the agency’s executive director, Stein Buer, and its external press representative, Barbara Gualco of Gualco Consulting, still declined to respond to direct questions about possible compensation changes that may have been approved at the $279 million agency’s Thursday board meeting although they were nowhere to be seen on the agenda.
Capitol Alert: Panel votes to keep elected officials’ pay at current level
Charles Murray, Chairman of the California Citizens Compensation Commission, top center, talks with Brett Granlund, a lobbyist and former Yucaipa Republican assemblyman, who said that cutting pay for a second consecutive year would be punitive, would not dent the state’s budget deficit and would “dumb down” the legislature by discouraging qualified candidates from running for office.
AM Alert: Time’s up for term limits initiative
Today is the deadline for county election officials to report whether proponents are projected to have turned in petitions with enough valid voter signatures to qualify for the November ballot. The initiative, backed by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, would create a 12-year cap on legislative terms, allowing lawmakers to serve 12 years consecutively in one house or split the time between the Assembly and the Senate
AM Alert: Debate in the works?
When Democrat Jerry Brown invited Republican Meg Whitman yesterday to join him in 10 town halls, she told him to release more policy details first. So we won’t hold our breath about town halls. But it looks like one Brown-Whitman meeting is in the works.
AM Alert: Filling the FPPC post
The state’s political watchdog agency could have a new top dog as soon as this week. The top post at the Fair Political Practices Commission has been vacant since former Chairman Ross Johnson resigned April 30.
Pension funds: We’re complying with Iran law
Officials with California’s two public pension funds tried to convince legislators today that they’re complying with a law requiring the sale of stocks of international companies doing business in Iran – even though they’ve dumped almost none of their holdings. CalPERS and CalSTRS told the Assembly Accountability Committee that they’re following the law by pressuring the companies to pull out of Iran.
Review: Coming to town, Conan’s stage show is prime time
FILE – In this April 12, 2010 photo, Conan O’Brien performs at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene, Ore. O’Brien is joining the board of directors of the John F
Panel postpones vote on Crocker children’s art program
Second thoughts and personal anguish among First 5 Sacramento commissioners delayed a decision Monday over a controversial public spending proposal involving the Crocker Art Museum.
