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Friday Legislative Update

October 9, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

The Legislature passed many of CALCASA’s priority support bills before the end-of-session deadline. CALCASA Public Policy is advocating for the Governor to sign a number of bills that have been passed by the legislature and are awaiting his signature. The Governor must sign any new laws by Sunday. The Governor will not take “action on

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Weekly News Update: Week of September 14th

September 21, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

The Best Question from the Last Two Weeks The tragedy of the Jaycee Dugard case has (rightly) resulted in quite a bit of media attention and interest.  At this early stage, reliable facts are just starting to emerge – despite the volume of coverage and conversation.  The paucity of new information, however, hasn’t stopped more

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Financial Couch Potato or Financial Fitness Routine

September 14, 2009

posted in: leadership

What is the financial condition of your agency? Is it more frightening to ponder the idea or not knowing what your current predicament is?  Many people talk about having diverse funding, creating a fund development plan, and doing financial forecasting.  All of these are excellent ideas that should be considered by your agency. Before that

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California prison overhaul plan stalls Assembly

August 21, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

The Sacramento Bee reported earlier this morning that “the Assembly adjourned at midnight Thursday without approving a Senate-passed plan to reduce the prison population by 27,300 inmates this year and to create a commission to overhaul California’s sentencing laws.” Assembly Speaker Karen Bass said there were a number of reasons her caucus objected to the

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Weekly News Update

August 17, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Week of August 10th CALCASA Media Advocacy Guide CALCASA is pleased to release our Media Advocacy Guide! Our goal is to share how we use media advocacy. For some of you, this will be a nice introduction to working with the media. For others, you may find that this is a simple text for sharing

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Sacramento Bee: "Schwarzenegger signs budget fixes"

July 28, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Earlier this morning, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a package of budget bills. The Governor said the package “contained ‘the good, the bad and the ugly,’ including no new tax increases and deep cuts in education and health care.” Additional cuts were made “in parks and child welfare services because lawmakers sent him a package that

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