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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/bay-bridge-bolts.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-92879\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/bay-bridge-bolts.jpg\" alt=\"A key problem on the Bay Bridge’s new self-anchored suspension span: Massive steel rods designed to anchor seismic safety devices snapped soon after the nuts were tightened early last year. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A key problem on the Bay Bridge’s new self-anchored suspension span: Massive steel rods designed to anchor seismic safety devices snapped soon after the nuts were tightened early last year. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A report commissioned by a state Senate committee contains a litany of criticisms of Caltrans for its handling of construction problems on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was put together in preparation for \u003ca href=\"http://stran.senate.ca.gov/agenda\" target=\"_blank\">an investigatory hearing Friday\u003c/a> by the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing. The panel, chaired by Concord Democrat Mark DeSaulnier, is in the midst of a review of infrastructure \"megaprojects.\" That inquiry was prompted by delays and cost overruns in building the new Bay Bridge span, a project that had an original price tag of about $1.4 billion but which ultimately took nearly $6.5 billion to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://stran.senate.ca.gov/sites/stran.senate.ca.gov/files/DeWolkreportfinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: Basic Reforms for the Future\u003c/a>,\" blasts Caltrans for lack of accountability for problems with the project and \"chronic attempts to keep many of the serious safety allegations quiet.\" (The complete 39-page report is embedded at the end of this post.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'This inquiry has come to the inevitable conclusion that there are legitimate concerns that this appears to be part of an institutionalized ... lack of transparency in the project.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This inquiry has come to the inevitable conclusion that there are legitimate concerns that this appears to be part of an institutionalized, if not malicious, lack of transparency in the project,\" the report says. The document was prepared by veteran Bay Area journalist Roland De Wolk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans, which by now has been dealing with years of bad press over the bridge project, says it's studying the report and will respond during the Senate committee hearing Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report has gotten widespread media attention. A couple sample leads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Vorderbrueggen\u003c/strong>, Contra Costa Times: \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24970599/bay-bridge-construction-managers-systematically-shut-down-safety\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Bridge construction managers systematically shut down safety critics, investigation concludes\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Caltrans systematically squelched serious allegations about the structural safety of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, concluded an investigation commissioned by the state Senate Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans managers marginalized dissenters, fired critics, reassigned outspoken engineers and urged those involved to avoid putting details of problems or issues in writing that would have to be disclosed under the state's Public Records Act, the report concluded.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jaxon Van Derbeken\u003c/strong>, San Francisco Chronicle: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Caltrans-accused-of-trying-to-hide-Bay-Bridge-5166927.php\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans accused of trying to hide Bay Bridge problems\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Caltrans engineer and an outside expert working on the Bay Bridge eastern span accused agency officials of discounting warnings about cracked welds on the bridge, and telling them not to put their concerns in writing to keep them from becoming public, according to a report commissioned for a state Senate committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official overseeing the long-delayed, $6.4 billion project told a Caltrans engineer who had examined the Chinese-made welds \"not to record his concerns in writing, either on paper or e-mail, but rather to communicate orally,\" said the report for the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, which was released Wednesday. A quality-control consultant said Caltrans supervisors \"did not want a record that would be legally available through the California Public Records Act,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And \u003cstrong>Charles Piller\u003c/strong> of the Sacramento Bee \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/22/6093564/senate-report-caltrans-ignored.html\" target=\"_blank\">runs down the report's key disclosures\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quality control managers found thousands of cracks in welds produced by a Chinese contractor for the span’s signature tower and roadway. Rather than ordering all needed fixes, top California Department of Transportation managers replaced those who discovered the problems.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Millions of dollars were paid to the same Chinese contractor to speed up work after it fell behind schedule and bridge officials urgently wanted faster results.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bridge officials rejected warnings in 2008 that suspect anchor rods for the suspension span were not adequately tested; some of those rods snapped last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials frequently told contractors and employees not to put concerns about quality into writing – ostensibly to avoid disclosure under the state Public Records Act\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the latest from the Associated Press on the Bay Bridge report, followed by the report itself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JHDearen\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Dearen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Senate report released Wednesday on the construction of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge raises questions about the quality of workmanship used to build the $6.3 billion span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report by the state Senate's Transportation and Housing Committee contains testimony from engineers that question the durability of welds on bridge pieces produced in China and the integrity of large bolts used to hold earthquake-safety equipment in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, both engineers say that despite the defects, they don't believe the bridge to be unsafe, but that parts of it will need expensive retrofitting sooner than they should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report's investigators found that California Department of Transportation managers dismissed concerns from quality-assurance experts that the Chinese firm Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co. Ltd, or ZPMC, hired to do key bridge welds, lacked the experience to meet standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Merrill, an engineer who oversaw weld inspections in China, told investigators that his staff found hundreds of weld cracks. He told Caltrans officials they were taking a \"great risk\" in allowing ZPMC to do the work, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the contract with ZPMC called for no cracks at all, so Merrill's firm MacTec Engineering rejected the pieces, leading to severe delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merrill said Caltrans was concerned about the delays, and that he was told he was being \"too rigorous\" in his inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans failed to renew MacTec's contract after the disagreement over ZPMC's work and hired another firm, Alta Vista Solutions, that turned out not to be qualified for the job, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said officials would address the report's findings at a meeting on Friday before the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also found that Caltrans forced another of its supervising bridge engineers off the job after supervising work on the welds being made in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chinese were not catching stuff,\" former Caltrans bridge engineer Douglas Coe, a 25-year department veteran, told the report's authors. \"Why are we finding all these cracks?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coe said he felt pressure from bridge managers Tony Anziano and Peter Siegenthaler not to stop work, and that eventually he argued that Caltrans should change the language in the contract — which permitted no cracks in the welds — if managers were going to order them through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans eventually changed that language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the first time in my career the engineering wasn't allowed to be done right,\" Coe told investigators. \"I'm mad as hell that the Department (Caltrans) put me in a position to have to say this. ... But if that bridge starts to crack in five years it's all going come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans' Anziano and Siegenthaler told the investigators that the weld cracks in question were repairable and have been mostly fixed. They maintain that the bridge is safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one was discouraged in reporting quality assurance,\" Anziano said in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also faulted Caltrans with allowing a number of giant steel bolts to be installed despite a lack of quality-assurance testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of rejecting the bolts, Caltrans managers \"resolved the situation by changing the specifications on the bolt fabrication contract and then accepted them 'as is,' \" the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of the bolts ended up snapping after being tightened in March, leading to a $25 million repair job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacTec's Merrill told investigators that he suggested the bolts undergo more testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got told we weren't doing any testing and to stop mentioning it,\" Merrill told the panel's investigators. \"I was basically told to stop bringing it up. 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A couple sample leads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Vorderbrueggen\u003c/strong>, Contra Costa Times: \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24970599/bay-bridge-construction-managers-systematically-shut-down-safety\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Bridge construction managers systematically shut down safety critics, investigation concludes\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Caltrans systematically squelched serious allegations about the structural safety of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, concluded an investigation commissioned by the state Senate Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans managers marginalized dissenters, fired critics, reassigned outspoken engineers and urged those involved to avoid putting details of problems or issues in writing that would have to be disclosed under the state's Public Records Act, the report concluded.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jaxon Van Derbeken\u003c/strong>, San Francisco Chronicle: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Caltrans-accused-of-trying-to-hide-Bay-Bridge-5166927.php\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans accused of trying to hide Bay Bridge problems\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Caltrans engineer and an outside expert working on the Bay Bridge eastern span accused agency officials of discounting warnings about cracked welds on the bridge, and telling them not to put their concerns in writing to keep them from becoming public, according to a report commissioned for a state Senate committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official overseeing the long-delayed, $6.4 billion project told a Caltrans engineer who had examined the Chinese-made welds \"not to record his concerns in writing, either on paper or e-mail, but rather to communicate orally,\" said the report for the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, which was released Wednesday. 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Rather than ordering all needed fixes, top California Department of Transportation managers replaced those who discovered the problems.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Millions of dollars were paid to the same Chinese contractor to speed up work after it fell behind schedule and bridge officials urgently wanted faster results.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bridge officials rejected warnings in 2008 that suspect anchor rods for the suspension span were not adequately tested; some of those rods snapped last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials frequently told contractors and employees not to put concerns about quality into writing – ostensibly to avoid disclosure under the state Public Records Act\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the latest from the Associated Press on the Bay Bridge report, followed by the report itself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JHDearen\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Dearen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Senate report released Wednesday on the construction of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge raises questions about the quality of workmanship used to build the $6.3 billion span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report by the state Senate's Transportation and Housing Committee contains testimony from engineers that question the durability of welds on bridge pieces produced in China and the integrity of large bolts used to hold earthquake-safety equipment in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, both engineers say that despite the defects, they don't believe the bridge to be unsafe, but that parts of it will need expensive retrofitting sooner than they should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report's investigators found that California Department of Transportation managers dismissed concerns from quality-assurance experts that the Chinese firm Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co. 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Note that we'll also have an annotated version of the speech later this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> During intros, Assembly Speaker John Perez notes a little history is attached to today's address: The governor is making his 11th State of the State Address, more than any other California governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg got a big laugh when he intoduced Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom as the former mayor of Sacramento. When he was corrected, he laughed and said, \"That would be a step up.\" More laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom then took the stage. He closed his seemingly interminable introductory speech by quoting Winston Churchill on the importance of private enterprise and called on state official to \"recommit ourselves to making California the tentpole for job creation in the American economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom then gave way to Brown. He started out in a joking vein, noting that \"everyone seems excited.\" He noted that his first attended a State of the State not in 1975, during his first term as governor, but 1959, during his father's first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Governor Brown's full speech:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/130856568&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18373\" target=\"_blank\">text of Brown's speech\u003c/a>, as released by the governor's office:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am here today to report on the state of our state, choosing to ignore those who say that Article 5 of our Constitution, which requires the governor to report to the Legislature, is outdated; that you can’t report on the condition of our state from Sacramento because California is too spread out and too diverse. It occurred to me that these critics – who have long recited our state’s decline – perhaps have nothing to say in the face of California’s comeback – except, “please, don’t report it.” Well, I’m going to report it, and what a comeback it is: A million new jobs since 2010, a budgetary surplus in the billions and a minimum wage rising to $10 an hour!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Californians have a lot to be proud of. For a decade, budget instability was the order of the day. A lethal combination of national recessions, improvident tax cuts and too much spending created a financial sink hole that defied every effort to climb out. But three years later, here we are – with state spending and revenues solidly balanced, and more to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that, I thank all of you – for your courageous and dedicated legislative work. It is truly impressive. I also want to thank the members of my administration who have worked so hard to help make all this happen. But above all else, I think we should thank the voters of California. In 2010, through Proposition 25, they established a majority vote for passage of the state budget. That ended the gridlock. Then, in 2012, they approved the temporary tax increases of Proposition 30. These two initiatives, together with the recovering economy and the tough decisions you took, made all the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we are not out of the woods and we certainly are not out of the drought. Life is uncertainty, the climate is changing – not for the better – and the business cycle and the stock market are historically volatile, with good years followed by bad, with painful regularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while we know our revenues will fluctuate up and down, our long-term liabilities are enormous and ever growing. Let me list some of them: Over $100 billion for pensions owed to state workers, teachers and judges; tens of billions needed to cover retiree health care; and $65 billion needed to maintain and keep our roads, buildings and other infrastructure in sound repair. We also must account for future risks that could negatively affect our budgets like congressional decisions, natural disasters and the uncertain costs of the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we can’t go back to “business as usual.” Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice, recounted in the Book of Genesis, that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most governors and legislatures – in modern times – have forgotten this advice. This time we won’t do that. We will pay down our debts and remember the lessons of history. The American philosopher, George Santayana, famously said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” To help us keep our fiscal realities in mind, I have some playing cards with a chart from this year’s budget summary that shows our last 15 budgets. It’s not pretty. So I decided to put a picture of Sutter on the other side to keep our spirits up. It will make you smile but also help us not forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiscal discipline is not the enemy of our democracy but its fundamental predicate. To avoid the mistakes of the past we must spend with great prudence and we must establish a solid rainy day fund, locked into the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, the people voted for a rainy day fund which was found to be unworkable. In 2010, you created another rainy day fund, now scheduled for the November Election. But this latest effort doesn’t give the state the option to pay off debt, doesn’t deal with the ups and downs of Proposition 98 and doesn’t account for spikes in capital gains. So let’s fix these flaws before going to the voters. This is work that must be accomplished in the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, I spoke of the principle of subsidiarity, a rather clunky word that nevertheless points to a profoundly important principle, namely that in our federal system there are separate layers of government, each with its own distinct responsibilities. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a “central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No better example of this can be found than in your enactment last year of the Local Control Funding Formula. This was a major breakthrough in the way funds are allocated to California’s schools so that our laws explicitly recognize the difficult problems faced by low-income families and those whose first language is other than English. As a result, those with less are going to receive more and that is good for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But something else is at work in this Local Control Funding Formula. Instead of prescriptive commands issued from headquarters here in Sacramento, more general goals have been established for each local school to attain, each in its own way. This puts the responsibility where it has to be: In the classroom and at the local district. With six million students, there is no way the state can micromanage teaching and learning in all the schools from El Centro to Eureka – and we should not even try!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, 324 people from across the state traveled to Sacramento to speak to the State Board of Education about the merits of this new law and the regulations which should be adopted under it. Principals, teachers, students, parents, religious groups and lawyers, all came forward to express their views. Now that shows interest and real commitment! But their work is just beginning. Each local district now has to put into practice what the Local Control Funding Formula has made possible. That, together with new Common Core standards for math and English, will be a major challenge for teachers and local administrators. But they are the ones who can make it work and I have every confidence they will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar vein, in the field of public safety, we have changed historic practices in our prison system and transferred significant responsibilities to local authorities. The Federal courts, backed up by the United States Supreme Court, have ordered major reductions in our prison population and dramatic improvements in the medical and mental health programs that the state makes available. In response, we have transferred the supervision of tens of thousands of lower level offenders from the state to our 58 counties. This realignment is bold and far reaching, but necessary under the circumstances. And local law enforcement has risen to the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our prisons are pioneering new programs and treatments – and so are the counties. Last week, I visited the Lerdo Jail just north of Bakersfield and sat in on some classes. It was moving to hear the men’s stories and the struggles they encounter. It was also inspiring to see the enthusiasm of Sheriff Donny Youngblood and his efforts under realignment to work with probation, the district attorney, local judges and the police to try new ways to deter crime and help offenders straighten out their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course there are issues with realignment, but together – with our local partners – we are facing them. We have plenty of work ahead of us, including building more capacity at the state and county level and becoming more effective with those who suffer mental illness or who are drug addicted. But we are on the right track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all this, your legislative work – particularly funding – is crucial but we should never lose sight of the reality that life is local and that so many things we try to do here in the State Capitol can only be handled by local representatives and leaders. They deal not with the abstractions of law but with the flesh and blood reality of everyday life. That’s a lesson I learned firsthand as mayor of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among all our uncertainties, weather is one of the most basic. We can’t control it. We can only live with it, and now we have to live with a very serious drought of uncertain duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, it is imperative that we do everything possible to mitigate the effects of the drought. I have convened an Interagency Drought Task Force and declared a State of Emergency. We need everyone in every part of the state to conserve water. We need regulators to rebalance water rules and enable voluntary transfers of water and we must prepare for forest fires. As the State Water Action Plan lays out, water recycling, expanded storage and serious groundwater management must all be part of the mix. So too must be investments in safe drinking water, particularly in disadvantaged communities. We also need wetlands and watershed restoration and further progress on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a tall order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is what we must do to get through this drought and prepare for the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do not know how much our current problem derives from the build-up of heat-trapping gasses, but we can take this drought as a stark warning of things to come. The United Nations Panel on Climate Change says – with 95 percent confidence – that human beings are changing our climate. This means more droughts and more extreme weather events, and, in California, more forest fires and less snow pack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you know, of all the states, and even of most of the countries of the world, California is the leader in dealing with climate change. From AB 32, to our building and appliance efficiency standards, our renewable portfolio standard and our support of electric vehicles, California is leading the way. Nevertheless, in terms of greenhouse gases, our biggest challenge remains the amount of gasoline Californians use. Each year, our motor vehicles use more than 14 billion gallons of gasoline to travel over 330 billion miles. To put those numbers in perspective, the sun is 93 million miles away. Reducing our oil consumption, two thirds of which is imported by ships and tank cars, will take time, breakthrough technologies and steadfast commitment. It will also require that the countries which burn the most fossil fuel join with us. We’ve started building those partnerships with other states and countries like China. We will go to Mexico next. California can’t do this alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In so many other ways, California is a pioneer. We have 25 percent of the nation’s foreign born and we are the first state in modern times to have a plurality of families of Latino origin. So it’s not surprising that California is the state where immigrants can not only dream – they can drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are also the state of innovation, of Silicon Valley and more venture capital investment than any other state – by far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re on our way to a million electric vehicles and we’re building the nation’s only high-speed rail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re expanding health care coverage to millions more. And, California is the nation’s leader in developing medical and scientific advances that will cure diseases and lower costs. We have six of America’s twelve top-performing metropolitan areas in biotechnology: San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Orange County. Last year, we created a tax credit to help innovators, in these regions and beyond, hire and expand in California. Four out of the world’s twenty leading academic bioscience institutions are located here in California: UCSF and Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford and UC San Diego. Just as California has led the way with stem cell research, so too can we pioneer the new field of precision medicine which uses genomics, medical devices, computer sciences and other fields to treat individual patients, instead of broad populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, California is a leader in so many ways. But, the dangers and difficulties we face can never be taken lightly. We still have too many struggling families, too much debt, and too many unknowns when it comes to our climate. Overcoming these challenges will test our vision, our discipline and our ability to persevere. But overcome them we will and as we do, we will build for the future, not steal from it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18373\" target=\"_blank\">text of Brown's speech\u003c/a>, as released by the governor's office:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am here today to report on the state of our state, choosing to ignore those who say that Article 5 of our Constitution, which requires the governor to report to the Legislature, is outdated; that you can’t report on the condition of our state from Sacramento because California is too spread out and too diverse. It occurred to me that these critics – who have long recited our state’s decline – perhaps have nothing to say in the face of California’s comeback – except, “please, don’t report it.” Well, I’m going to report it, and what a comeback it is: A million new jobs since 2010, a budgetary surplus in the billions and a minimum wage rising to $10 an hour!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Californians have a lot to be proud of. For a decade, budget instability was the order of the day. A lethal combination of national recessions, improvident tax cuts and too much spending created a financial sink hole that defied every effort to climb out. But three years later, here we are – with state spending and revenues solidly balanced, and more to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that, I thank all of you – for your courageous and dedicated legislative work. It is truly impressive. I also want to thank the members of my administration who have worked so hard to help make all this happen. But above all else, I think we should thank the voters of California. In 2010, through Proposition 25, they established a majority vote for passage of the state budget. That ended the gridlock. Then, in 2012, they approved the temporary tax increases of Proposition 30. These two initiatives, together with the recovering economy and the tough decisions you took, made all the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we are not out of the woods and we certainly are not out of the drought. Life is uncertainty, the climate is changing – not for the better – and the business cycle and the stock market are historically volatile, with good years followed by bad, with painful regularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while we know our revenues will fluctuate up and down, our long-term liabilities are enormous and ever growing. Let me list some of them: Over $100 billion for pensions owed to state workers, teachers and judges; tens of billions needed to cover retiree health care; and $65 billion needed to maintain and keep our roads, buildings and other infrastructure in sound repair. We also must account for future risks that could negatively affect our budgets like congressional decisions, natural disasters and the uncertain costs of the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we can’t go back to “business as usual.” Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice, recounted in the Book of Genesis, that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most governors and legislatures – in modern times – have forgotten this advice. This time we won’t do that. We will pay down our debts and remember the lessons of history. The American philosopher, George Santayana, famously said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” To help us keep our fiscal realities in mind, I have some playing cards with a chart from this year’s budget summary that shows our last 15 budgets. It’s not pretty. So I decided to put a picture of Sutter on the other side to keep our spirits up. It will make you smile but also help us not forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiscal discipline is not the enemy of our democracy but its fundamental predicate. To avoid the mistakes of the past we must spend with great prudence and we must establish a solid rainy day fund, locked into the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, the people voted for a rainy day fund which was found to be unworkable. In 2010, you created another rainy day fund, now scheduled for the November Election. But this latest effort doesn’t give the state the option to pay off debt, doesn’t deal with the ups and downs of Proposition 98 and doesn’t account for spikes in capital gains. So let’s fix these flaws before going to the voters. This is work that must be accomplished in the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, I spoke of the principle of subsidiarity, a rather clunky word that nevertheless points to a profoundly important principle, namely that in our federal system there are separate layers of government, each with its own distinct responsibilities. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a “central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No better example of this can be found than in your enactment last year of the Local Control Funding Formula. This was a major breakthrough in the way funds are allocated to California’s schools so that our laws explicitly recognize the difficult problems faced by low-income families and those whose first language is other than English. As a result, those with less are going to receive more and that is good for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But something else is at work in this Local Control Funding Formula. Instead of prescriptive commands issued from headquarters here in Sacramento, more general goals have been established for each local school to attain, each in its own way. This puts the responsibility where it has to be: In the classroom and at the local district. With six million students, there is no way the state can micromanage teaching and learning in all the schools from El Centro to Eureka – and we should not even try!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, 324 people from across the state traveled to Sacramento to speak to the State Board of Education about the merits of this new law and the regulations which should be adopted under it. Principals, teachers, students, parents, religious groups and lawyers, all came forward to express their views. Now that shows interest and real commitment! But their work is just beginning. Each local district now has to put into practice what the Local Control Funding Formula has made possible. That, together with new Common Core standards for math and English, will be a major challenge for teachers and local administrators. But they are the ones who can make it work and I have every confidence they will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar vein, in the field of public safety, we have changed historic practices in our prison system and transferred significant responsibilities to local authorities. The Federal courts, backed up by the United States Supreme Court, have ordered major reductions in our prison population and dramatic improvements in the medical and mental health programs that the state makes available. In response, we have transferred the supervision of tens of thousands of lower level offenders from the state to our 58 counties. This realignment is bold and far reaching, but necessary under the circumstances. And local law enforcement has risen to the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our prisons are pioneering new programs and treatments – and so are the counties. Last week, I visited the Lerdo Jail just north of Bakersfield and sat in on some classes. It was moving to hear the men’s stories and the struggles they encounter. It was also inspiring to see the enthusiasm of Sheriff Donny Youngblood and his efforts under realignment to work with probation, the district attorney, local judges and the police to try new ways to deter crime and help offenders straighten out their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course there are issues with realignment, but together – with our local partners – we are facing them. We have plenty of work ahead of us, including building more capacity at the state and county level and becoming more effective with those who suffer mental illness or who are drug addicted. But we are on the right track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all this, your legislative work – particularly funding – is crucial but we should never lose sight of the reality that life is local and that so many things we try to do here in the State Capitol can only be handled by local representatives and leaders. They deal not with the abstractions of law but with the flesh and blood reality of everyday life. That’s a lesson I learned firsthand as mayor of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among all our uncertainties, weather is one of the most basic. We can’t control it. We can only live with it, and now we have to live with a very serious drought of uncertain duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, it is imperative that we do everything possible to mitigate the effects of the drought. I have convened an Interagency Drought Task Force and declared a State of Emergency. We need everyone in every part of the state to conserve water. We need regulators to rebalance water rules and enable voluntary transfers of water and we must prepare for forest fires. As the State Water Action Plan lays out, water recycling, expanded storage and serious groundwater management must all be part of the mix. So too must be investments in safe drinking water, particularly in disadvantaged communities. We also need wetlands and watershed restoration and further progress on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a tall order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is what we must do to get through this drought and prepare for the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do not know how much our current problem derives from the build-up of heat-trapping gasses, but we can take this drought as a stark warning of things to come. The United Nations Panel on Climate Change says – with 95 percent confidence – that human beings are changing our climate. This means more droughts and more extreme weather events, and, in California, more forest fires and less snow pack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you know, of all the states, and even of most of the countries of the world, California is the leader in dealing with climate change. From AB 32, to our building and appliance efficiency standards, our renewable portfolio standard and our support of electric vehicles, California is leading the way. Nevertheless, in terms of greenhouse gases, our biggest challenge remains the amount of gasoline Californians use. Each year, our motor vehicles use more than 14 billion gallons of gasoline to travel over 330 billion miles. To put those numbers in perspective, the sun is 93 million miles away. Reducing our oil consumption, two thirds of which is imported by ships and tank cars, will take time, breakthrough technologies and steadfast commitment. It will also require that the countries which burn the most fossil fuel join with us. We’ve started building those partnerships with other states and countries like China. We will go to Mexico next. California can’t do this alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In so many other ways, California is a pioneer. We have 25 percent of the nation’s foreign born and we are the first state in modern times to have a plurality of families of Latino origin. So it’s not surprising that California is the state where immigrants can not only dream – they can drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are also the state of innovation, of Silicon Valley and more venture capital investment than any other state – by far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re on our way to a million electric vehicles and we’re building the nation’s only high-speed rail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re expanding health care coverage to millions more. And, California is the nation’s leader in developing medical and scientific advances that will cure diseases and lower costs. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS7960_106397785-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The good news from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calpers.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Public Employees' Retirement System\u003c/a>, the pension system that serves about 1.7 million public sector workers, retirees and their dependents: 2013 was a very good year for the fund's investments. 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CalPERS reportedly accounts for about $100 billion of the shortfall. The state's other major retirement fund, the California State Teachers' Retirement System, or CalSTRS, faces another $80 billion in unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press notes in a story today that despite Gov. Jerry Brown's promise to start tackling the state's biggest fiscal challenges, he's not yet proposing any specific action on CalSTRS. (The system is vital to California teachers because they don't pay into Social Security and thus don't get it when they retire.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP's Don Thompson notes the CalSTRS liability is \"a gap so large that the fund is projected to deplete all its assets in about 30 years. ... The deficit for the nation's largest educator-only pension fund is so huge it would cost teachers, local school districts, community colleges and the state budget a combined $4.5 billion a year to bridge. The California State Teachers' Retirement System says it grows by $22 million each day nothing is done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson also spells out some of the obstacles that must be surmounted to get CalSTRS back on track:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And unlike the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which covers a wide range of state and municipal employees, CalSTRS cannot unilaterally increase the amount it collects from state and local governments. CalSTRS contributions can be increased only if the Legislature votes to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While CalPERS plans to boost contribution levels again next month for the third time in the last two years, the 8 percent that teachers pay into the pension fund from their salaries has not changed since 1972. The 8.25 percent that school districts pay has not been altered since 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state's share can vary slightly, it has hovered at 5.5 percent, including an annual cost-of-living adjustment — about $1.4 billion a year. The state's general fund contribution to CalPERS is projected to top $1.8 billion next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of the pension funds' revenue comes not from contributions but from investment income. And that also is the cause of CalSTRS' problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dot.com boom led to the fund being fully funded by 1998, but the windfall prompted state lawmakers to increase benefits and decrease the state's contribution. 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It stems from a lawsuit over Measure B, which called for existing city employees, including police officers and firefighters, to pay 16 percent more into their pensions and retiree health care plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the ruling is expected to be appealed, legal experts say it could set precedent for cities around the state that are considering pension cuts as a way to save taxpayer funds without having to cut services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B won nearly 70 percent voter approval in June 2012, but was challenged by employee unions. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/pensions/ci_24782960/pensions-city-workers-cant-be-cut-but-pay\">San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Municipal unions sued, saying the retirement benefits were previously approved at the bargaining table and represented a \"vested right\" that employees could not lose just because the city ran into hard financial times. A weeklong trial ensued in July. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[In her ruling last week, Lucas] said it forever became the city's responsibility to pay for employee pension costs once officials signed its labor contracts doling out the retirement benefits — and the rising costs of paying for those pensions was not a good enough excuse to wipe out that obligation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Lucas upheld a section of Measure B that allows city officials to cut workers' pay instead of pensions to achieve the taxpayer savings. 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. It upheld the rule of voter authority over any future pension changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier story, the Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/pensions/ci_23745027/both-sides-await-ruling-after-san-jose-pension\">reported\u003c/a> that Measure B put some $68 million in yearly retirement savings is at stake, and that the measure is key to Mayor Reed's legacy as well as the political fortunes of his City Council allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five of six Council members support Measure B, and are also \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=121816&action=edit&message=10\">potential mayoral candidates\u003c/a> after Reed's final year in office. Reed, meanwhile, has supported a statewide initiative that proposes to allow all California cities to be able to cut worker pensions. 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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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. 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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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