The El Dorado Irrigation District has completed a bond sale to refinance a portion of its debt and is close to a new agreement with employees to reduce labor costs. Mark Price, district finance director, said the debt restructuring, completed Feb. 23, allows the district to postpone $12 million in debt payments for the three-year period of 2010-2012 until 2022-2024.
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Lawmakers send budget package to Schwarzenegger
Legislators approved a complex change to the state’s gas tax system today, in an effort to nibble away at California’s $20 billion budget deficit. On mostly party line votes, the Assembly and state Senate sent a measure to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that would drop the 6 percent sales tax on gasoline at the pump, and replace it with an equivalent 17.3-cent-per-gallon excise tax
Torch Club – Lara Price Band – 2010-02-27
At the Torch Club *** Lara Price Band *** Lara Price is based in the San Francisco Bay area, Lara has built quite a top-notch band, Lara can belt out a song, purr through a ballad, knock you out with her sensuality and make you want to get up and dance.
Retreats, million-dollar salaries paid for as Anthem Blue Cross sought big rate hike
WASHINGTON – While Anthem Blue Cross proposed a 39 percent rate increase on thousands of its California customers, its parent company paid 39 of its executives more than $1 million each and spent more than $27 million on 103 lavish executive retreats, congressional investigators say.
Cuomo accuses BofA, Lewis and Price of securities fraud in Merrill deal
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has accused Bank of America Corp., former chief executive Ken Lewis and former chief financial officer Joe Price of “duping shareholders and the federal government” to complete the bank’s purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co.
Sacramento Museum Day: Where to go, what to see
2010 SACRAMENTO MUSEUM DAY WHEN: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday (all close at 5 p.m.) WHERE: Greater Sacramento area COST: Free SHUTTLES: Catch a free ride to several Sacramento museums at 10th and O streets (outside the California Museum.) No service to Crocker Art Museum because of construction there. INFORMATION: (916) 808-7777, www.sacmuseums.org (click on “Museum Day”) DOWNTOWN AND MIDTOWN • California Museum for History, Women & the Arts, 1020 O St
Sacramento County will pay $2.7 million more on interest in bank deal
Sacramento County’s declining credit rating is costing the county big bucks. On Tuesday, the county learned it will be paying as much as $2.7 million more a year to Bayerische Landesbank. The Board of Supervisors approved a new Letter of Credit with that bank, which has been backing $134 million in Pension Obligation Bonds from 1995.
Government reports strong growth in final months of 2009
The U.S. economy grew at a better-than-expected 5.7 percent annual rate in the final three months of last year, the Commerce Department reported Friday, ending 2009 with a 2.4 percent contraction for the year, the worst performance by the U.S.
Cal State home show off to a strong start
Free admission helped lure potential customers out of the rain today as the 17th annual California State Home & Garden Show opened its three-day run. Shopping for landscaping ideas, George and Joan LaPonsie drove from Jackson to downtown Sacramento for the show’s first day at the Sacramento Convention Center
Copper heist makes for messy day on Sacramento light rail
Regional Transit linemen rebuild copper lines Thursday at Folsom Boulevard and Kilgore Road after thieves stole copper wire from a substation. RT ran buses during the repairs. “The biggest problem is getting my guys home on Christmas Eve,” said RT supervisor Jarrod Burklow
