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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85350\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/152766328.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-85350\" title=\"Gov. Brown Signs Legislation At Google HQ That Allows Testing Of Autonomous Vehicles\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/152766328-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Brown (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Riding a wave of new tax revenue, California's spending plan for the coming fiscal year will rise by 7 percent, a powerful indication that the state that came to symbolize fiscal mismanagement during the heart of the recession is emerging into brighter days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday proposed a $97.6 billion general fund budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year that wipes out years of deficits and even includes a modest surplus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The additional revenue hiked the spending plan by $6.3 billion over the current year and helps the governor pour more money into public schools and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's budget shortfall stood at $25 billion when Brown took office two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/documents/FullBudgetSummary_web2013.pdf\">\u003cstrong>Budget summary\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/01/10/governors-proposals-for-medicaid-expansion/\">Browns' proposal for Medicaid expansion\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (State of Health)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/10/governor-to-propose-budget-more-money-for-schools-expected/#quotes\">\u003cstrong>Quotes from Brown's press conference\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://calchannel.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=7&clip_id=832\">\u003cstrong>A video of the press conference\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/10/governor-to-propose-budget-more-money-for-schools-expected/#the%20budget's%20environmental%20provisions\">\u003cstrong>The budget's environmental provisions\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/10/governor-to-propose-budget-more-money-for-schools-expected/#education%20provisions\">\u003cstrong>The budget's education provisions\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"California today is poised to achieve something that has eluded us for more than a decade — a budget that lives within its means, now and for many years to come,\" Brown said during a news conference at the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rebounding economy coupled with new revenue from the higher sales and income taxes voters approved last November have put the nation's most populous state on a healthier financial trajectory as it begins to turn the corner on an era of deep budget shortfalls and spending cuts to core state programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's persistent budget woes came to represent the plight of states struggling through the recession as tax revenue declined steeply, leaving governors and state legislatures around the country little choice but to consider deep cuts or unpopular tax increases.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown took both approaches. He pushed an austerity message that forced cuts throughout state government during his first two years in office while persuading California voters to approve increases to the state sales tax and on income taxes on high-income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the new revenue flowing in, Brown has warned his Democratic colleagues who control both houses of the state Legislature that they must not overplay their hand and spend too freely. The governor wants to build a reserve fund for future downturns to help smooth the type of boom-and-bust budget cycles that have become chronic in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I'm determined to avoid the fiscal mess that the last few governors had to deal with,\" Brown said. \"The way you avoid it is by holding the line, by exercising a common sense approach to how we spend our money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His budget contains an $850 million surplus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown wants to focus the additional spending on public schools. His budget includes $2.7 billion more for K-12 education, which will account for 57 percent of general fund spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Brown's priorities is creating a new education funding formula. It would be aimed at giving school districts more control over spending and directing state money to the neediest children and poorest districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His proposal is expected to run into opposition from lawmakers representing more affluent regions of the state, but Brown said the state should spend proportionally more on students who have \"disproportionate challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Growing up in Compton or Richmond is not like it is to grow up in Los Gatos or Beverly Hills or Piedmont,\" he said of his redistribution plan. \"It is controversial, but it is right and it's fair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending cuts are still expected in some areas, such as the courts, while health care programs and social services are expected to see no increases in spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's two four-year higher education systems, the University of California and California State University, each will receive $250 million more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's general fund spending hit a high of $103 billion before the recession decimated the state's economy and severely cut tax revenue for the state and municipalities. It dropped to a low of $87 billion during the 2011-12 fiscal year, requiring lawmakers to make deep cuts in a wide array of state services, including K-12 schools, higher education, the court system, and social services for the needy and disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's environmental editors Paul Rogers and Andrea Kissack had this report about \u003ca name=\"the%20budget's%20environmental%20provisions\">\u003c/a>the budget's environment provisions\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Environmentalist's are welcoming the Governor's budget news today\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong> It’s the first time in four years that a Governor has not proposed closing parks to save money. Instead, the state will hire 65 people to do fire prevention work paid for by a fire fee on rural landowners. A lumber tax will pay for more staff to do inspections on logging operations and their impact on streams. Also, the budget proposal provides funding for Salton Sea restoration. On the flip side, revenue from the state's first carbon credit auction could be less than expected, possibly because the initial price was low.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_22349299/environment-brown-administrations-budget-calls-more-money-and?source=pkg\" target=\"_blank\">More from Paul Rogers in the Mercury News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>KQED's Charla Bear and Tyche Hendricks had this report on \u003ca name=\"education%20provisions\">\u003c/a>the budget's education provisions:\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The proposed budget would boost K-12 education by an additional $2.7 billion dollars. It would give public universities a modest increase, though less than they requested. Brown insisted that the University of California and California State University systems figure out how to do more with less, putting an emphasis more on educating undergraduates than on other priorities such as research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California educators are relieved that for the first time in years the governor's proposed budget would increase school funding. \"Overall, I think it's good news for schools,” said Mary Shelton,l superintendent of San Ramon Valley Unified School District. “It looks like we should be able to maintain some stability and perhaps begin to restore some programs that might have been cut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelton says San Ramon and other wealthy suburban districts will likely get a smaller increase, though. That's because the governor's budget would give a larger share to districts with more low-income students and English Language Learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending more on education for poor children and English learners will benefit all Californians in the long run, Brown said, even wealthy suburbanites whose schools might get less of an increase, because those people, in their old age, will depend on a skilled workforce paying taxes and taking care of the state’s growing elderly population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To direct more money to disadvantaged groups, the governor would eliminate most of the state's so-called \"categorical\" funding requirements -- pots of money targeted to specific programs. That would also give local school districts greater flexibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Freitas of the California Federation of Teachers says he's not sure that's such a good idea. \"We do believe in some local control, but we also believe the state does provide some checks on the locals in terms of requiring certain programs for these students of need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislature still has to approve the plan. It will likely begin hearings on the budget next week.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"quotes\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quotes from Brown's press conference:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What are we going to do with the money we have? We have achieved the position we’re in because of tough cuts that Democrats didn’t like to make, but they did. And then the people voted for taxes. By the way the cuts are about 3 times more than the taxes. But it’s entirely significant that we broke the logjam by going to the people. Because we do still have government by the people as well as for the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m determined to avoid the fiscal mess that the last few governors didn’t deal with. The way you avoid it is by holding the line, by exercising a common sense approach to how we spend out money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not just the money that’s going in, but it’s going in under new conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On equality:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In America the fruits of our prosperity each year have each year been disproportionately channeled to capital and away from labor. And this is causing this tremendous growth in inequality… You’ve got the middle class hollowed out. The people at the bottom are struggling. .. There will be lots of bills as to how to deal with that. We’re spending more than any other state, and that’s good, and I support that. But we have to live within the means we have. Otherwise we get into that situation where we have red ink… I want to avoid the boom and the bust, the borrow and the spend…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fiscal discipline is not the enemy of democratic governance, but rather its fundamental predicate. Fiscal discipline and balance allows us to take care of the needs of the people over time, instead of just having a momentary rash of excitement, and then we pay with a hangover several years later.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On schools:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re not just investing in our schools, we’re doing it in the context of encouraging local control. We want to put the decisions closer to the classroom ... Let the problems be solved closest to where they exist. Those institutions that have the most direct contact...should have the greatest authority. So the teacher in the classroom obviously has the maximum authority, then the principal, then the superintendent, then the school board, the state school board, the state superintendent, the governor and the legislature. But as you go up the line you lose control and you build bureaucracy... [The way ] we create greater control is we eliminate most of the categorical programs because they are built on bureaucracy on auditing on non-teachers being increasingly hired to manage the various complicated flows of money. Now, that’s local control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On healthcare:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to expanding Medi-Cal, we’re committed to bringing more people into the healthcare system, but we recognize there are big costs out there. There are big unknowns so we’re going to move carefully, but we’re going to move with commitment, because I believe people do need decent healthcare, and I believe what Pres. Obama did was historic. 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He pushed an austerity message that forced cuts throughout state government during his first two years in office while persuading California voters to approve increases to the state sales tax and on income taxes on high-income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the new revenue flowing in, Brown has warned his Democratic colleagues who control both houses of the state Legislature that they must not overplay their hand and spend too freely. The governor wants to build a reserve fund for future downturns to help smooth the type of boom-and-bust budget cycles that have become chronic in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I'm determined to avoid the fiscal mess that the last few governors had to deal with,\" Brown said. \"The way you avoid it is by holding the line, by exercising a common sense approach to how we spend our money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His budget contains an $850 million surplus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown wants to focus the additional spending on public schools. His budget includes $2.7 billion more for K-12 education, which will account for 57 percent of general fund spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Brown's priorities is creating a new education funding formula. It would be aimed at giving school districts more control over spending and directing state money to the neediest children and poorest districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His proposal is expected to run into opposition from lawmakers representing more affluent regions of the state, but Brown said the state should spend proportionally more on students who have \"disproportionate challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Growing up in Compton or Richmond is not like it is to grow up in Los Gatos or Beverly Hills or Piedmont,\" he said of his redistribution plan. \"It is controversial, but it is right and it's fair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending cuts are still expected in some areas, such as the courts, while health care programs and social services are expected to see no increases in spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's two four-year higher education systems, the University of California and California State University, each will receive $250 million more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's general fund spending hit a high of $103 billion before the recession decimated the state's economy and severely cut tax revenue for the state and municipalities. 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Because we do still have government by the people as well as for the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m determined to avoid the fiscal mess that the last few governors didn’t deal with. The way you avoid it is by holding the line, by exercising a common sense approach to how we spend out money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not just the money that’s going in, but it’s going in under new conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On equality:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In America the fruits of our prosperity each year have each year been disproportionately channeled to capital and away from labor. And this is causing this tremendous growth in inequality… You’ve got the middle class hollowed out. The people at the bottom are struggling. .. There will be lots of bills as to how to deal with that. We’re spending more than any other state, and that’s good, and I support that. But we have to live within the means we have. Otherwise we get into that situation where we have red ink… I want to avoid the boom and the bust, the borrow and the spend…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fiscal discipline is not the enemy of democratic governance, but rather its fundamental predicate. Fiscal discipline and balance allows us to take care of the needs of the people over time, instead of just having a momentary rash of excitement, and then we pay with a hangover several years later.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On schools:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re not just investing in our schools, we’re doing it in the context of encouraging local control. We want to put the decisions closer to the classroom ... Let the problems be solved closest to where they exist. Those institutions that have the most direct contact...should have the greatest authority. So the teacher in the classroom obviously has the maximum authority, then the principal, then the superintendent, then the school board, the state school board, the state superintendent, the governor and the legislature. But as you go up the line you lose control and you build bureaucracy... [The way ] we create greater control is we eliminate most of the categorical programs because they are built on bureaucracy on auditing on non-teachers being increasingly hired to manage the various complicated flows of money. Now, that’s local control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On healthcare:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to expanding Medi-Cal, we’re committed to bringing more people into the healthcare system, but we recognize there are big costs out there. There are big unknowns so we’re going to move carefully, but we’re going to move with commitment, because I believe people do need decent healthcare, and I believe what Pres. Obama did was historic. 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Come college it really weighed on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh my god, the amount of pressure I had every day – like I’m gonna be picked up off the street and sent to Mexico.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More new laws\u003c/strong>...\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://roadwarrior.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/15777/new-laws-that-will-affect-drivers/\">New driving laws\u003c/a> (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22286499/mortgages-guns-among-california-new-law-topics\">Morgages, guns among new Calif. laws\u003c/a>(AP)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/A-look-at-new-California-workplace-laws-3998241.php\">New Calif. workplace laws\u003c/a>(SF Chronicle)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/31/new-laws-school-educatio/\">New laws in education\u003c/a> (News Fix)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-31/californias-new-laws-serve-as-policy-experiments\">Calif. 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Last fall it became the only state to pass a law to guarantee that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New driving laws: Autonomous vehicles, new license plates\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>by Joshua Johnson\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1298 lets the DMV regulate what are known as \"autonomous vehicles.\" That includes limiting how many self-driving test cars are on the highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for those of us who have to drive ourselves, AB 2020 raises the stakes for driving drunk. The law takes away the option of a urine test, requiring a blood test in most cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1550 raises the cost of veterans' specialty license plates. Proceeds will benefit a veterans advocacy group. And, remember those classic California license plates, with yellow, black or blue backgrounds? You'll be able to order them again, as of New Year's Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/11/29/new-law-helps-lgbt-families-access-fertility-treatments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-law-helps-lgbt-families-access-fertility-treatments\" target=\"_blank\">New Law Helps LGBT Families Access Fertility Treatments\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>by Mina Kim\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new state law takes effect that could make a difference for people trying to access fertility services. The law expands California’s interpretation of “sexually intimate partner” to include both known sperm donors and donors whose sperm a recipient has already been exposed to through a non-medical attempt to conceive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Bay Area Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner authored the legislation, AB 2356. Skinner says the law also helps single women, lower income women, or heterosexual couples who need help conceiving and want to use the sperm of someone they know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, federal law requires sperm donors and recipients to be “sexually intimate partners” in order for the sperm to avoid being treated like it came from a sperm bank, which requires it to go through extensive testing and be frozen and quarantined for six months. That process can cost thousands of dollars and cause untenable delays for those waiting to get pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Injured scholarship athletes get protection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>by Mina Kim\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A law that takes effect at the start of the new academic year in the fall requires four California universities -- UCLA, Stanford, USC, and Cal -- to provide academic scholarships to student athletes who lose their athletic scholarships due to a sports-related injury. The law also requires that those schools cover insurance deductibles and premiums for injured lower-income athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bosses Barred From Seeking Employees' Social Media Info\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>by Peter Jon Shuler\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, California employers can no longer demand or even ask employees and job applicants for their social media login information. 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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown checked off most of the items from his 2012 to-do list. He persuaded a majority of voters to pass his tax initiative in November, pushed changes to the public pension system through the Legislature and put California on stronger financial footing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84293\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/JerryBrown.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/JerryBrown.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"JerryBrown\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84293\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now the Democratic governor can turn his attention to the second half of a term that began two years ago and pursue the kind of legacy-building achievements governors seek. At the top of his agenda are a massive water infrastructure project for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the heart of the state's water-delivery system, and seeing that the nation's first high-speed rail system gets on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be a very exciting year, but it has to be a year that we keep one foot on the brake and the other foot modestly on the accelerator,\" Brown said in an interview with The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Democrats also winning two-thirds majorities in both houses of the Legislature, the governor has said one of his responsibilities will be to keep his own party in check so it doesn't lose the trust of the voters. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is likely to present a robust agenda when he releases his budget proposal and gives his State of the State address in January. In addition to high-speed rail and a tunnel to convey Sacramento River water around the delta, Brown has signaled that he will seek to overhaul California's school-funding system, streamline state regulations and further strengthen California's environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, said in a column that Brown could be \"the new voice of reason\" in Sacramento, with Republicans marginalized and Democratic lawmakers free to enact anything they like — and even override gubernatorial vetoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown acknowledged a \"momentum and thrust\" among liberals to try to restore programs that have experienced deep spending cuts during the recession, but he has been reiterating his admonitions that the state must keep spending in check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is that the money that we've raised has already been spent, and the goal here was to bring our budget into balance, stop the bleeding in our schools and stabilize the yo-yo budgeting of the last 15 years, and so that's where we are,\" Brown said of his ballot initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"It's clear to me that we have to stay the course, and this will be a much better year than we've had for a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 30, passed with 54 percent of the vote Nov. 6, is expected to generate an additional $6 billion a year by increasing the state sales tax a quarter cent and raising income taxes on those making $250,000 a year or more. Both tax increases are temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's independent legislative analyst said California faces a much smaller budget deficit — about $1.9 billion — through the end of the next fiscal year and could even have surpluses after that. That compares with the $15.7 billion deficit lawmakers faced earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has a unique opportunity that few leaders get, Democratic political adviser Chris Lehane said. With all statewide offices held by Democrats and a supermajority in the Legislature, he said Californians will look to Brown to lay out a vision for restoring the state to greatness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think people are going to want a sense of, big picture, where are we going as a state?\" Lehane said. \"I think they want to have a sense that there is a plan out there that can address what have been historically intractable issues. ... Now we have a chance to go in the right direction. How are we going to do that?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown laid out a fairly extensive list of priorities the day after the November election. He said he would give his full attention to the state's longstanding water concerns, focus on the $68 billion high-speed rail project, revamp the state's education financing system and work to \"calibrate our regulations\" to ensure they are reasonable but still protect the environment, health and workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg also said Democrats will seek to rewrite an $11 billion water bond that is set to go before voters in 2014, rearranging its priorities and lowering the borrowing by at least $1 billion. Republicans had insisted on including the possibility of building new dams when the bipartisan package was approved by lawmakers in 2009, while Democrats generally favored alternatives such as cleaning up contaminated groundwater and increasing conservation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, 74, also faces medical treatments for early stage prostate cancer, his second cancer scare since re-taking the office he first held from 1975 to 1983. He is undergoing radiation treatments that are expected to end the week of Jan. 7. In April 2011, he underwent surgery to remove a cancerous growth on the right side of his nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead to a year of promise, Brown views his role as charting the middle ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see my job as someone who has to examine closely the various excesses that are presented and find a wise balance,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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While the policy does not require council members to describe the precise nature of their exchanges with lobbyists, Reed said it would help media and constituents “follow up and figure out what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Scheer, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, a nonprofit organization based in San Rafael, said San Jose’s stringent disclosure policy is “the first of its kind in California, if not the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the law catching up with technology,” Scheer said. “I applaud San Jose for taking these steps. I would hope that other counties and city governments follow their example because it’s in everybody’s interest except for lobbyists, who will find it more difficult to wield influence secretly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy stops short of requiring council members to reveal messages involving city business that they send and receive from their personal email or text accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether this omission could expose the city to lawsuits from those seeking access to these electronic communications, David Vossbrink, a city spokesman, said: “That’s a legitimate question. That’s an evolution of policy and law that we are looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos and transcripts of the council meetings are posted on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/\">city’s website\u003c/a>, giving the public a way to track any disclosures made by council members. 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