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Reed said city leaders will work out the pay cuts over the next months, before Measure B takes effect on July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides claimed victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We won, they lost,” said Jim Unland, president of the Police Officers Association, to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/entries/12_23_13_judge_hands_down_ruling_on_measure_b_pension_reform/\">San Jose Inside\u003c/a>. ... \"The vested right doctrine once again held up again. [City officials] can play their cute numbers game, but the core of what measure B was was invalidated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Pete Constant, a former police officer and Measure B backer, told San Jose Inside about two-thirds of Measure B’s changes were upheld. “The important thing is it preserves the $21 million in savings that we’ve already put in place. That’s really important, because we now move into next year’s budget with certainty. 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He spoke about the initiative, which he hopes to get on the ballot in 2014, on KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310170900\">Forum\u003c/a> in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed had pointed out to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/05/15/94162/san_jose_voters_to_decide_on_pension_reform_measure\">KQED in May 2012\u003c/a> that the city’s pension costs have tripled in the last decade, forcing San Jose to cut services; if the pension plans were left unchecked, the city could face billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>San Jose's public workers contend it is unfair to expect them to the bear the brunt of a problem they didn't create. And they say most retirement pensions are not luxurious. 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Jerry Brown is the longest-serving chief executive in California history — and if he wants to run for a fourth term in 2014, it looks like we'd be fine with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new Field Poll (the full results are embedded at the end of this article) shows that nearly six in ten registered voters (58 percent) statewide approve of the job he is doing, with just 33 percent disapproving — an increase of seven points in Brown's approval rating since July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"LEFT\">And while Brown has not said whether he will run again for governor next year, the poll shows that when Brown and three other possible candidates are listed in a simulated June open primary election, Brown is the overwhelming choice — receiving 52 percent of the preferences, followed in order by former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado (11 percent), State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (9 percent), and former Assistant Treasury Secretary Neel Kashkari (3 percent). Another 25 percent are undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmund G. Brown Jr. was first elected governor in 1974, again in 1978, and once more in 2010. Early on, Chicago columnist Mike Royko \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07mckinley.html?_r=0\">tagged him\u003c/a> \"Governor Moonbeam\" because he was young, idealistic and nontraditional and appealed to the Golden State's young, idealistic and nontraditional. But the latest Jerry Brown, the one who assumed office a few years ago, has taken a back-to-basics approach to governing, focusing on budgetary reforms that have largely erased the $27 billion state deficit he inherited from Arnold Schwarzenegger, and funding the state's public education system through the passage of Prop. 30 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In turn, Californians' approval of Brown has risen significantly, to the highest ratings of his tenure. According to the Field Poll:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In March 2011, less than three months after Brown assumed office, The Field Poll found 48% of voters approving, 21% disapproving and a relatively large proportion (31%) having no opinion. Since that time more voters have formed an opinion of his performance. In the current survey the proportion of voters unable to rate Brown has declined to just 9%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At present, 58% of voters say they approve of the job Brown is doing as governor, his highest\u003cbr>\napproval rating of his tenure, while one in three (33%) disapprove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than three in four Democrats (78%) offer a positive evaluation of how Brown is handling his job and just 14% give a negative assessment. About six in ten Republicans (63%) disapprove of Brown’s performance, while 27% approve. Among independent voters 58% approve and 33% disapprove.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Brown's popularity in a 2014 governor's race may be due to the fact that, right now at least, his likely opponents have little name recognition. In fact, while a November \u003ca href=\"http://gqrr.com/articles/2013/11/08/new-university-of-southern-california-dornsife-college-of-letters-arts-and-sciences-los-angeles-times-poll-9/\">USC/Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> poll found more than 50 percent of Californians generally approve Brown’s performance in office, only 32 percent say they’re inclined to vote for him next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has been criticized on how he has dealt with various issues, such as prison overcrowding. His stance on fracking has upset environmentalists and may prove a sticking point should he run for re-election. From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/02/5961428/jerry-brown-followed-to-events.html\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Environmentalists frustrated with Brown’s permissiveness of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, have followed the Democratic governor to events throughout the state since September, heckling him for his approval of legislation establishing a permitting system for the controversial form of oil extraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests have become an awkward sideshow for the third-term governor, highlighting the deepening division between Brown and environmentalists – a reliably Democratic constituency – as he prepares for a re-election bid next year.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv>Brown will be 76 if he stands for reelection next year and 77 barely three months into his fourth term, if reelected.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>Here is the full Field Poll report:\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Field Poll: Gov. 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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. Johnson pointed out that they pulled their New York affiliate operations in 2008 after that state passed its law, and that other companies fled Illinois after that state passed a similar law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet companies will simply operate in states that have laws advantageous to their businesses, Johnson said. \"Unless all the states choose to do this, I think there will be a strong affiliate market\" somewhere, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Reviled, Revered: Is the Gray Wolf Still An Endangered Species?",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118943\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/20/118901/gray-wolf-endangered-species/6545954621_cb647443de_z/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118943\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118943\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/6545954621_cb647443de_z.jpg\" alt=\"The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service may remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species List. (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Midwest Region / Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service may remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species List. 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Known by the code name given to him when he was tagged with a GPS collar, he caused \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/lone-wolf%E2%80%99s-historic-trek-provokes-questions-and-concerns/\">quite a stir\u003c/a> among everyone from environmentalists to cattle ranchers. \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/01/23/fear-and-loathing-in-wolf-country/\">Conflicting feelings ran deep\u003c/a>, rooted in various cultures and histories: some revere the wolf; many fear it. OR7 has since returned to Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our lone wolf notwithstanding, the gray wolf has made a healthy comeback since its listing under the Endangered Species Act over three decades ago — so much so that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) is \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/home/wolfrecovery/\">proposing\u003c/a> to remove the animal from federal protections in the lower 48 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolf activists think the move to delist is premature, and are planning a \u003ca href=\"http://org.salsalabs.com/o/2167/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=81110\">rally\u003c/a> in Sacramento on Friday, Nov. 22, to voice their opposition. The rally precedes an FWS \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/home/wolfrecovery/\">public hearing\u003c/a> on the proposal, one of several being held across the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We need to restore the gray wolf to the numbers where it's fulfilling its ecological role.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>FWS \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/home/wolfrecovery/pdf/FrequentlyAskedQuestions11-19-13.pdf\">states\u003c/a> on its website that there are now 5,360 gray wolves in the lower 48, with a current estimate of 1,674 in the northern Rocky Mountains and 3,686 in the western Great Lakes. The numbers, say FWS, far exceed the minimum numbers set at the outset of the recovery plan, and it is now time to \"focus our limited resources on the Mexican wolf population in the Southwest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But activists say the numbers are not nearly enough to ensure full recovery. \"They're utterly deficient,\" says Amaroq Weiss of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/\">Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/a>, one of the groups behind Friday's rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to restore the gray wolf to the numbers where it's fulfilling its ecological role,\" Weiss adds. She points out what happened at \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wolves_in_Yellowstone\">Yellowstone National Park\u003c/a>, when the gray wolf population was decimated in the 1920s. 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In fact, OR-7's historic 500-mile journey from Oregon to California makes a very strong case for why wolves need protecting here, offering on-the-ground proof of what top researchers have said for decades: Recovering populations will return to California's thousands of acres of prime, upland wolf habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is, will California be prepared to manage them when they get here?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fgc.ca.gov/\">California Fish and Game Commission\u003c/a> is expected to decide in February whether wolves should be protected under the state’s Endangered Species Act. They’ll be using the preliminary state study that Weiss mentioned in her op-ed. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.capitalpress.com/article/20131119/ARTICLE/131119888\">report from Capital Press\u003c/a>, the study recommends against endangered species protections because currently, there aren’t any wolves in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should a wolf wander into California without being protected as a state or federal endangered species, it would be considered a “non-game” mammal, which means it can’t be hunted, but could be killed for causing property damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is planning for more wolves. State officials have convened stakeholders including ranching, hunting and environmental groups to put together a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/wolf/Stakeholders.html\">statewide wolf management plan\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS3293_brownbudget20130110.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118917\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS3293_brownbudget20130110.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown announced the passing of Prop. 30 in November of 2012. (Randy Pench/Sacramento Bee/MCT via Getty Images)\" width=\"594\" height=\"422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown announced the passing of Prop. 30 in November of 2012. (Randy Pench/Sacramento Bee/MCT via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento is flush with cash. That’s no typo – for the first time since the end of the dot-com boom, the Legislative Analyst’s Office is projecting multibillion dollar cash surpluses over the coming fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO’s report on California’s fiscal outlook serves as an unofficial start to next year’s budget cycle, which will kick off in early January when Gov. Jerry Brown unveils his proposed state budget. The LAO predicts Brown and lawmakers will have a lot of money to work with: a projected $2.4 billion surplus next year, and another $3.2 billion in extra revenue in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where did the extra money come from? Analyst Mac Taylor credited three factors: “We finally have an economic recovery — the best way to grow yourself out of problems,” he said. “We had [tax measure] Proposition 30, which has obviously provided relief and revenues. …And all of the efforts the legislature took during the bad years, of slowing the growth in many programs, and in some cases taking reductions in programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes this year’s relatively conservative state budget, which Brown built on cautious tax estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Taylor is telling lawmakers not to get too excited about the additional income. The LAO’s report warns things can always turn south quickly, so the office is recommending the legislature use the surplus to build up a rainy day fund and pay down California’s debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/121136432\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brown administration agrees with the restrained approach. Spokesman H.D. Palmer pointed out just 1 percent of state residents pay 40 percent of California’s income tax revenue. “And for that narrow band of taxpayers, most of their income doesn’t come from salaries and wages,” he said. “It comes from things like capital gains. Which are the most volatile and difficult-to-forecast revenues that we have in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it another way, if the market goes south again, California would quickly be in the red.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many rank-and-file Democrats were frustrated that this year’s budget didn’t do more to restore the deep cuts lawmakers instituted during the recession. And if the surplus keeps growing, you can bet pressure will mount to hike spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s response to the LAO hints at that. He agreed with Brown and the LAO’s cautious approach, saying, “There is ample room to pay down debt, build a healthy reserve to hedge against an economic downturn, address long-term pension and health obligations,” but the Democrat said there’s also money to “expand worthy programs for people and our economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the LAO report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_13506\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/185892105/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Since then, about 1,000 people have been released. \u003cstrong>KQED’s Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong> followed three men as they left prison and adapted to their new lives outside, and interviewed multiple experts and stakeholders about the state’s criminal justice system.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120493008\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>onvicted of stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store, Richard Brown spent 18 years in prison under California’s notorious Three Strikes law. Then, quite suddenly, he was standing outside the gates of San Quentin earlier this year, a free man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me to get off the property,” he says. “I asked if there was a phone booth or something. They said no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Robert Watts, who served 13 years for receiving stolen property, getting out of prison involved an emotional legal tangle with local prosecutors who insisted he was an unredeemed career criminal and should remain behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was unpleasant,” he says. “But at least it’s over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The measure does not appear to be endangering public safety.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For both men, freedom came as the result of Proposition 36, the ballot initiative approved last year by voters in every county in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure changed the 1994 law that had allowed judges to impose life sentences for low-level felonies such as petty theft and drug possession. The new law focuses on serious and violent crimes. It’s also retroactive, allowing current inmates whose third strike was non-violent and non-serious to petition the courts for resentencing and possible release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the measure have argued that the original Three Strikes law worked well and contributed to a dramatic fall in violent crime over the past two decades. Granting some inmates early release, they said, would lead to a spike in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guarantee that a significant percentage of them are going to re-offend, and re-offend in serious ways,” said Ed Jagels, the former District Attorney for Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also said prosecutors today are using the law judiciously, pointing out that more than 80 percent of three strikers were sentenced prior to 2000. Changing the law, they said, would remove an important tool from the prosecutorial toolbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, Prop. 36 does not appear to be endangering public safety, according to a recent report by Stanford Law School and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing state data, the report concluded that of the more than 1,000 inmates released from prison under the measure, fewer than 2 percent have been charged with new crimes. By comparison, the average recidivism rate over a similar time period for non-Prop. 36 inmates is 16 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents’ prediction of the measure unleashing “blood in the streets” was hyperbole, said David Mills, a Stanford law professor who helped fund the initiative. “Millions of dollars have been saved and many lives changed, hopefully for the better,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Like their adopted son\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a blessing,” says Richard Brown, a 61-year-old former drug addict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of his arrest in 1995, Brown says he was unaware that the Three Strikes law had been implemented the previous year. “I heard about it but I didn’t think they’d be that out of control with the sentencing guidelines,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his release, Brown moved to Ripon, a small farming community south of Stockton, where he found a job with a company that assembles agricultural machinery. An aspiring gospel musician, he also sings in a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was drawn to Ripon by Minard and Vivian Roorda, local farmers who learned of his case from a neighbor 18 years ago. The Roordas supported Brown like an adopted son, visiting him regularly in prisons around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minard Roorda says he voted for the original Three Strikes law but realized it cast too wide a net and left men like Brown languishing in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they not deserved a second chance?” he said. “Are they not deserving our help? 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In Los Angeles and some other counties, inmate petitions are getting stuck in the courts, creating a backlog of inmates who are still in prison even though they are eligible for resentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a steady decline in the number of petitions that have been reviewed,” said Bonnie Dumanis, district attorney for San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial round of Prop. 36 reviews mainly involved low-risk inmates who were being fast-tracked for release. Now, courts are facing “hard, challenging cases where people have mental health issues or have some issues that need to be dealt with,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye met with officials from several large counties to discuss ways to make the petition process “more efficient and effective,” Dumanis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 2,000 inmates eligible for resentencing under Prop. 36 remain in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘They give you $200 and kick you out’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former three strikers say their challenge has been coping with life on the streets without the structure of prison and support normally provided to newly released felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who qualify for release have served so much extra time they’re not placed on parole or probation. 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