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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/17/115263/rs6975_172765550-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115292\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS6975_172765550-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Dollars \" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-115292\">\u003c/a>Last year, Cyber Monday had a distinctly different feel for Californians: Under \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_155_bill_20110923_chaptered.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a state law\u003c/a> passed in 2011, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/09/14/161083090/california-online-sales-tax-faces-enforcement-hurdle\" target=\"_blank\">they were paying sales tax\u003c/a> for the first time on purchases they made on Amazon and many other online sites. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon had resisted collecting the sales tax for years. The company argued that under U.S. Supreme Court precedents, it wasn't required to charge tax because it had no physical presence in the state. But a 2011 California law, drafted to level the playing field for local brick-and-mortar businesses and capture lost sales tax revenue, declared that online merchants with affiliate sellers in the state did indeed have a taxable presence here. (Affiliate sellers are usually independent merchants who earn a commission from a larger company by referring customers there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon and some other major retailers fought the law. But in the end, Amazon cut a deal with the state to delay the requirement to collect the tax in return for an agreement to locate new fulfillment centers (and thousands of jobs) here. Amazon started collecting the tax in September 2012 while another big retailer, Overstock.com, decided to cut ties with thousands of affiliates based in the state so that it wouldn't be obligated to collect the sales tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The world has changed dramatically in the last two decades, and it may be that the physical presence test is outdated.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Of course, the California action didn't settle the issue for the rest of the country. Other states, also watching sales tax proceeds decline as more people buy merchandise online, have passed similar laws. And Congress has gotten involved, too. The Senate has passed \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/22/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-senates-online-sales-tax-bill/\" target=\"_blank\">an online sales tax measure\u003c/a> ; it's unclear whether the House will go along, even as \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/14/state-republicans-making-the-case-for-internet-sales-tax-to-congress/\" target=\"_blank\">Republican state officials say\u003c/a> they need a national measure to help deal with a loss of revenue due to growing online sales. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which brings us to the state of New York's online sales tax and today's non-decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon and Overstock have been fighting the New York law, which like California's statute says that affiliate sellers create a taxable business presence. The companies lost a March decision in the New York Court of Appeals. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/business/new-york-ruling-on-sales-tax-collection-by-online-retailers-will-stand.html?_r=0#h%5BIasTMF,3,FnAAti,1,3%5D\" target=\"_blank\">According to The New York Times\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[The court] ruled that the companies had a sufficient presence in the state because of affiliated independent sites that linked to the retailers in return for a commission. “The bottom line,” Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman wrote for the majority, “is that if a vendor is paying New York residents to actively solicit business in this state, there is no reason why that vendor should not shoulder the appropriate tax burden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief judge added that it might be time to reconsider the basic rule that states may not collect taxes from out-of-state companies without some physical presence in the state, a principle recognized by the United States Supreme Court in its 1992 decision in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world has changed dramatically in the last two decades,” Chief Judge Lippman wrote, “and it may be that the physical presence test is outdated. An entity may now have a profound impact upon a foreign jurisdiction solely through its virtual projection via the Internet. That question, however, would be for the United States Supreme Court to consider.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The next stop for Amazon and Overstock was the U.S. Supreme Court. Today, without comment, the high court declined to take the case. The bottom line for shoppers: state online sales tax laws in California, New York and elsewhere will stand. Maybe, somewhere down the road, Congress will act to make the tax collections universal for larger businesses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And until then, remember: If you buy taxable goods online, \u003ca href=\"http://www.boe.ca.gov/taxprograms/usetax/\" target=\"_blank\">you owe the tax\u003c/a> whether it's collected or not. But that's another story. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below: The latest writeup on the New York case from the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.twitter.com/jessejholland\">Jesse J. Holland\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON — On perhaps the busiest online shopping day of the year, the Supreme Court refused on Monday to wade into a dispute over New York state's taxes on purchases on websites like Amazon.com. The move likely will prompt more states to attempt to collect taxes on Internet sales — and ignite a furious battle in Congress involving Internet sellers, brick-and-mortar stores and states hungry for extra tax revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high court without comment turned away appeals from Amazon and Overstock.com Inc., in their fights against a New York court decision forcing them to remit sales tax the same way in-state businesses do. This could affect online shopping in that state, since for many shoppers one of the attractions of Internet purchasing is the lack of a state sales tax, which makes some items a little cheaper than they would be inside a brick-and-mortar store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Council of State Legislatures estimated that states lost an estimated $23.3 billion in 2012 as a result of being prohibited from collecting sales tax on online and catalog purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Web retailers generally have not had to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence. But New York and other states say that a retailer has a physical presence when it uses affiliates — people and businesses that refer customers to the retailer's website and collect a commission on sales. These affiliates range from one-person blogs promoting the latest gadgets to companies that run coupon and deal sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon and Overstock both use affiliate programs. Amazon has been collecting sales tax in New York as it fights the state over a 2008 law that was the first to consider local affiliates enough of an in-state presence to require sales tax collection. Overstock ended its affiliate program in 2008 after the law passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But each state has its own rules on Internet sales taxes. While this settles the issue for New York state, other states like Illinois have come to different conclusions — meaning that some Americans will still get state-tax free Internet purchases from certain websites, while others won't simply because of where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the big Internet sellers aren't giving up. After the decision, both Amazon and Overstock said they plan to take their case to Congress in hopes of getting a federal decision on state-level Internet sales taxes that would apply to every state uniformly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"States might take courage from this non-decision but they shouldn't,\" said Jonathan Johnson, executive vice chairman of Overstock.com. 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The companies lost a March decision in the New York Court of Appeals. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/business/new-york-ruling-on-sales-tax-collection-by-online-retailers-will-stand.html?_r=0#h%5BIasTMF,3,FnAAti,1,3%5D\" target=\"_blank\">According to The New York Times\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[The court] ruled that the companies had a sufficient presence in the state because of affiliated independent sites that linked to the retailers in return for a commission. “The bottom line,” Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman wrote for the majority, “is that if a vendor is paying New York residents to actively solicit business in this state, there is no reason why that vendor should not shoulder the appropriate tax burden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief judge added that it might be time to reconsider the basic rule that states may not collect taxes from out-of-state companies without some physical presence in the state, a principle recognized by the United States Supreme Court in its 1992 decision in Quill Corp. v. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98BIu9dpwHU&w=560&h=315]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Just in time for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/02/cyber-monday-the-hidden-and-not-so-hidden-costs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyber Monday\u003c/a> viewing, we can show you (in the video above) the latest brainstorm from retail genius Jeff “Amazon” Bezos. It’s the Amazon “octocopter,” a drone aircraft that the company says one day will make it possible to deliver purchases to some customers in just 30 minutes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bezos \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/amazons-jeff-bezos-looks-to-the-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unveiled his new toy\u003c/a> on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night, with host-personality Charlie Rose telling the audience, “Tonight, for the first time, you’ll be introduced to perhaps Amazon’s boldest venture ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The segment gives a pretty thorough overview of how Amazon fills orders, estimated at 300 per second for Cyber Monday, at its nearly 100 fulfillment centers worldwide. At one point, Rose asks Bezos, “What is Amazon today?” Bezos responds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I would define Amazon by our big ideas, which are customer-centricity, putting the customer at the center of everything we do; invention — we like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what’s on the other side.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bezos also emphsized that his company begins projects with a long view in mind, being willing to wait five, six or seven years for a return on investments instead of being impatient for, and needing, a more immediate payback. That willingness to wait explains in part the company’s research-and-development effort on aerial delivery, which Bezos told Rose “is years away” from reality. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what’s on the other side.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bezos said the octocopters as currently configured could carry parcels up to five pounds, which would account for 86 percent of Amazon’s sales, and could make deliveries within a 10-mile radius of fulfillment centers. Another selling point for the drones, he says: They’re green, being powered by electric motors. Summarizing the challenges still facing the project, he said “the hard part here is putting in all the redundancy, all the reliability, all the systems you need to say, ‘Look, this thing can’t land on somebody’s head while they’re walking around their neighborhood. … I don’t want anybody to think this is just around the corner.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Amazon is not the first enterprise to talk about delivery by drone. Domino’s Pizza has a prototype air-delivery vehicle under development (see Stephen Colbert’s take \u003ca href=\"http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/428009/july-23-2013/domino-s-pizza-drone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>). Closer to home, Silicon Valley \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/09/watch-the-real-life-taco-copter-drop-some-delicious-mexican-food-from-20-feet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tacocopter promises aerial delivery\u003c/a> of Mexican cuisine.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our takeaway on the Amazon octocopter: It will be great to have an electric toothbrush, a Kindle or the first volume of “The Hunger Games” trilogy dropped on the front doorstep. But listen to these machines. They really are drones, whining little commerce-driven mosquitoes. In the 24-hour instant airborne delivery world we’ll soon inhabit, that sound will be really annoying. People seeking a little peace and quiet will take to chasing them down with softball bats and attacking them. So in addition to making sure the autonomous delivery craft don’t land on our heads, maybe Bezos and his engineers can turn that future drone into a whisper. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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The $15 million, two-year fire staffing grant through the Federal Emergency Management Agency — believed to be the largest awarded to any city — will help restore all the firefighter jobs lost a year ago when city and fire union leaders failed to reach an agreement on pay cuts that city officials said were needed to prevent layoffs.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/real-estate/ci_18757506\">Google’s Silicon Valley expansion now includes buying buildings\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Google has purchased numerous office buildings in Mountain View, part of a multipronged property quest that underscores the startling expansion plans of the digital titan. All told, Google this year has spent an estimated $115 million to buy 16 buildings in Mountain View, including a four-building complex a few blocks from the downtown. The purchases are on both sides of Highway 101. 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The agreement, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco this week, requires Santos, a member of the Santa Clara Valley Water District board, along with his brother Tony Santos and sister Toni Robinson, to maintain a two-foot thick soil barrier over an 11-acre property, which the EPA says contains asbestos from old pipes and other waste dumped there half a century ago.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/26/BA4E1KS5EC.DTL\">S.F. sued over police shooting of mentally ill man\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The parents of a mentally ill man who was shot to death by San Francisco police in his home last December sued the city Wednesday, saying the man was not wielding a knife at officers, as they claimed, and posed no threat to them. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/amazonlogo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/amazonlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"amazonlogo\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35134\">\u003c/a>Legislative lawyers believe that if a referendum on the new law requiring sales tax collection by online retailers qualifies for the ballot, the law will have to be put on hold until the voters have their say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that opinion holds, it may raise the stakes for a budget written with an expectation of at least $200 million from the law in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are of the opinion that the operation of the statute would be suspended during that time period,\" writes attorneys for the office of the Legislative Counsel in a letter dated Friday to state Sen. 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In part, the quandary is linked to the California Constitution's exclusion of \"urgency statutes\" (which go into effect immediately and require a supermajority legislative vote) and those \"providing for appropriations.\" Until Prop 25 lowered the budget vote in the Legislature, both seemed to apply to the state's annual fiscal plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before Proposition 25,\" the opinion letter states, \"the referendum was applicable only to statutes that did not go into effect immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, write legislative attorneys, the budget can no longer be considered exempt from referendum because Prop 25 didn't explicitly say so. And while the constitution doesn't expressly put a statute on hold once a referendum has qualified for the ballot, Legislative Counsel says the courts have nonetheless operated on that assumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This debate has been largely theoretical up until now. But news that online giant Amazon \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/07/11/amazon-tax-referendum-filed/#more-9578\">submitted a referendum\u003c/a> and that they appear to have the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/07/16/2466310_strategists-flock-to-looming-amazon.html\">financial and political steam\u003c/a> needed to gather 504,760 valid voter signatures by September 27, qualifying it for the next statewide ballot, makes it very real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Legislature's legal beagles are right, the clearing of that hurdle would suspend the law until the day after voters keep it in place or toss it out. The concluding thoughts of their new opinion letter state that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"Thus, in the case of a statute, such as AB1X 28, that has gone into immediate effect pursuant to Proposition 25, the proponent of a referendum measure would have 90 days to circulate a petition for signatures and submit the petition for certification, just as with any other statute. During that 90-day period, the statute would remain in effect and be operative, as provided by its terms. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/blog/loren-kaye/7693-referendum-rip\">suggested\u003c/a> that the budget and any related bill that includes an \"appropriation\" could, under Prop 25, be immune from the referendum. In part, the quandary is linked to the California Constitution's exclusion of \"urgency statutes\" (which go into effect immediately and require a supermajority legislative vote) and those \"providing for appropriations.\" Until Prop 25 lowered the budget vote in the Legislature, both seemed to apply to the state's annual fiscal plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before Proposition 25,\" the opinion letter states, \"the referendum was applicable only to statutes that did not go into effect immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, write legislative attorneys, the budget can no longer be considered exempt from referendum because Prop 25 didn't explicitly say so. And while the constitution doesn't expressly put a statute on hold once a referendum has qualified for the ballot, Legislative Counsel says the courts have nonetheless operated on that assumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This debate has been largely theoretical up until now. But news that online giant Amazon \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/07/11/amazon-tax-referendum-filed/#more-9578\">submitted a referendum\u003c/a> and that they appear to have the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/07/16/2466310_strategists-flock-to-looming-amazon.html\">financial and political steam\u003c/a> needed to gather 504,760 valid voter signatures by September 27, qualifying it for the next statewide ballot, makes it very real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Legislature's legal beagles are right, the clearing of that hurdle would suspend the law until the day after voters keep it in place or toss it out. The concluding thoughts of their new opinion letter state that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"Thus, in the case of a statute, such as AB1X 28, that has gone into immediate effect pursuant to Proposition 25, the proponent of a referendum measure would have 90 days to circulate a petition for signatures and submit the petition for certification, just as with any other statute. During that 90-day period, the statute would remain in effect and be operative, as provided by its terms. However, if the referendum were certified...the statute immediately would be stayed and would remain stayed until an election is held for the referendum measure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note that the passage above does not allow Amazon and other online retailers to thumb their noses at the new state law in the interim, though they've clearly seemed to say that's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388003,00.asp\">what they'll do\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the state Board of Equalization is scheduled to discuss implementation of the new law at a meeting here in Sacramento tomorrow morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One final, and fascinating, point: at the same time the Amazon tax referendum is on the streets for signatures, a bill awaits action by Governor Jerry Brown to cancel the February 2012 presidential primary, moving the race for the White House back to the Golden State's regularly scheduled primary in June. That would mean, if the Amazon tax referendum qualifies and this legal opinion is accurate, the law would be suspended for more than eight months until the June election... thus costing the state budget money on which it's counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, who argued the cancellation of the February primary would save the state money, may now not be so thrilled. Meantime, one of the opponents of nixing the February election \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/07/california-presidential-primary-june-2012-assembly-bill-80.html\">quoted during floor debate\u003c/a> as saying so: Sen. Anderson, who requested the legal opinion and now may be happy his position didn't carry the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow John Myers on \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/kqed_capnotes\">Twitter\u003c/a> or at \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/kqed_capnotes\">Capital Notes\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Service was disrupted at the Civic Center, 16th Street and Powell Street stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/07/12/MNNG1K97E4.DTL\">In court, PG&E deflects blame for San Bruno blast\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which issued a public apology last month for September’s natural gas explosion in San Bruno, says in a new court filing that it should not have to make payouts to victims who have sued the company because the blast was caused by third-party damage to a “state of the art” pipeline. The company also indicated it would seek to assign some of the blame for the losses from the explosion to residents themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/12/3762952/amazoncom-plans-to-take-online.html\">Amazon.com plans to take online tax fight to the ballot in California\u003c/a> (Sacramento Bee)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Amazon.com, in a fresh attack on California’s new online sales tax law, is pushing a ballot referendum to have the law repealed. The Internet retailer Monday called it “a referendum on jobs and investment in California.” The effort comes two weeks after the law was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. It requires online merchants to collect sales tax on goods purchased by Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-redistricting-20110712,0,7415960.story\">Redistricting panel cancels second draft of legislative maps\u003c/a> (LA Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>he citizens panel that for the first time is determining California’s new voting districts has canceled second drafts of its proposed maps, drawing heavy criticism Monday from interest groups that complained of being left out of the process. Under pressure to meet a July 28 deadline for finishing the new boundaries, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission decided not to release a second draft of them this week as scheduled but to continue working on what it hopes will be the final maps. Commissioners said that would allow them to concentrate on gathering more information and crafting the best possible districts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/11/MNGL1K75DC.DTL\">Bay Area counties brace for influx of inmates\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Tens of thousands of convicted felons and parole violators in California will be diverted from state prison to county supervision, sending local criminal justice officials scrambling to meet the added demands on their jails, probation offices, courts and social services, all without any assurance of adequate funding. Local law enforcement authorities anticipate a jump in crime with fewer criminals locked up in state prisons and worry about more trouble behind bars in the county lockups.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/07/12/MNCU1K95TD.DTL\">America’s Cup preparations under way for the bay\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Almost 500,000 people could crowd onto the shores of San Francisco and Marin to watch sailboats whiz past Alcatraz in a race for the America’s Cup, according to the first complete look at the unique benefits – and headaches – the event will bring to the city. The draft environmental impact report, released Monday, is the most detailed description of the 2013 America’s Cup race to be published since the city won the right to host the race last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_18458052\">California law updated to include cyberbullying by students through social networking sites\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>An existing California law that gives school officials the right to suspend or expel a student for bullying another student over the Internet or by other electronic means has been updated to include bullying others through social networking websites. The bill, AB 746, sponsored by Assemblywoman Nora Campos (D-San Jose) goes into effect Jan. 1, after it was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/12/BA551K9969.DTL\">Hunters Point redevelopment given OK to progress\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A San Francisco judge has tossed out most of a legal challenge to the controversial plan to convert the shuttered Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and nearby Candlestick Point into a new neighborhood with more than 10,500 homes, clearing the way for work to begin on the project. Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith, in a 37-page ruling made public Monday, found that the environmental review for the mega-project was adequate in all regards except one: the early transfer of some parcels of the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_18457441\">Bay Area diabetes camps canceled, hundreds of kids out of luck\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Just weeks before hundreds of children with diabetes were to set off for summer camps at Sequoia Lake and the Santa Cruz Mountains, the San Jose-based nonprofit that ran these programs for more than three decades has abruptly shut down, leaving kids like Draven Miller with packed bags and no place to go. The only warning that parents received from the Diabetes Society was an email about the cancellations that included an ominous message: You can try to apply for a refund, or write off the $600 to $700 in camper fees as a donation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/07/12/MN871K94C6.DTL\">Fabian Núñez’s words enrage slain man’s family\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Former Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez on Monday infuriated the family of a slain man by questioning the use of taxpayer dollars on court proceedings in which the family seeks to overturn a controversial sentence commutation that benefited Núñez’s son. In one of his last acts in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted Esteban Núñez’s 16-year voluntary manslaughter sentence to seven years, and later said he did it to help his friend, the former speaker. 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California’s Department of Transportation chose Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries to fabricate the steel girders and tower meant to improve the earthquake resistance of the bridge linking San Francisco and Oakland after the 1989 Loma Prieta quake collapsed part of the bridge. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/crime/story/alleged-picasso-thief-plead-not-guilty/\">Alleged Picasso Thief to Plead Not Guilty Friday\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Accused Picasso thief Mark Lugo appeared briefly in San Francisco Superior Court Monday afternoon with his lawyer, local defense attorney Douglas Horngrad. Judge Samuel Feng postponed Lugo’s arraignment until Friday and kept his bail at $5 million…“Nobody is dead. Nobody’s been assaulted. 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The draft environmental impact report, released Monday, is the most detailed description of the 2013 America’s Cup race to be published since the city won the right to host the race last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_18458052\">California law updated to include cyberbullying by students through social networking sites\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>An existing California law that gives school officials the right to suspend or expel a student for bullying another student over the Internet or by other electronic means has been updated to include bullying others through social networking websites. The bill, AB 746, sponsored by Assemblywoman Nora Campos (D-San Jose) goes into effect Jan. 1, after it was signed into law by Gov. 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