The Orange County Transportation Authority, not wanting to be
seen as supporting the project, delayed approving a regional
pact.
State’s Fair Political Practices Commission cutting back
regulation of lobbyists, holding fewer open meetings and keeping
mum on investigations.
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Educator and Community Editorial Board member Michael Matsuda
warns that standardized testing could threaten innovation in
America.
The city lost nearly $8.5 million for the project when Gov.
Jerry Brown eliminated redevelopment.
A statewide experiment is aimed at cutting costs and
streamlining care for people eligible for both Medi-Cal and
Medicare.
Irvine officials maintain that the park should still get $1.4
billion in property tax funding despite Gov. Jerry Brown’s
elimination of redevelopment. But the decision is now up to a
separate board.
Councilman Jeffrey Lalloway unsuccessfully pushed for a
reduction after the state Supreme Court axed the park’s primary
source of funding.
Diane Harkey and Mimi Walters say money should not go to bullet
trains while education and human services funding is being cut.
Irvine’s redevelopment agency — the primary means of funding
construction of the Great Park — could disappear because of a state
Supreme Court decision. Great Park leaders have yet to devise solid
alternatives.
In a span of two days in November, county supervisors quietly
granted managers bonuses retroactive to 2010, then publicly voted
down the 2012 managers’ contract, citing objections to such
bonuses.
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