California Legislature Rejects Automatic Pay Increase Debate
Nearly half of California's 120 lawmakers refuse the $2,323 annual raise, while others take the increase as state tax revenues shimmer. UCLA economists challenge assumptions on future surpluses as Proposition 13 reshapes local funding and school budgets amid ongoing salary freezes. Public workers see boosted receipts and rising pressure for a cost of living adjustment despite the era of limits.
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California
Sacramento
UCLA
Brown
Franchise Tax Board
Board of Equalization
Trade talks drift in Geneva amid inflation and tariff fears
Trade bargaining remains lengthy and fragile under inflation recession and fuel shortages. Talks begun in Tokyo in 1977 with a 1977 deadline failed and a Dec 15 1978 target also passed without accord. Congress protectionist pressure blocks waiver authority while Europe threatens quotas on tobacco citrus and clothing. The outcome hinges on presidential flexibility to keep trade open and deter a broader trade war.
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Geneva
Tokyo
United States
Congress
Carter
FAT IS BEAUTIFUL IN TONGA SAY FIRST LADY
Paul Harvey recalls an island kingdom where diet and physique define beauty. Tongans prize fullness as elegant, with a monarch of 440 pounds and a culture promoting hearty eating. Despite health warnings, local life includes bananas taro and fattening foods, plus imported snacks and Coca-Cola.
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Taufa’ahu Tupoua IV
Isa Ae
Poetsy
Elizabeth
Wall Street
Barry Newman
Tonga
Flight over Kern County lands at Meadowg Field
A narrated flight simulates a route across Kern County from a Bakersfield takeoff to a Meadowg Field touchdown. The journey passes over Oildale Bakersfield Kern River Bear Mountain East Bakersfield Edison Caliente Loraine Walker Basin Bodfish Kernville Onyx Mojave Desert Inyokern Ridgecrest Edwards Tehachapi Tehachapi Taft McKittrick Lost Hills Wasco McFarland Woody Granite Station Famoso Cawelo Meadowg Field with substitutions of modern names for landmarks.
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Magnolia
Drumville
Rand Camp
Amargo
Yucca
Sierra de San Marcos
Summit Station
Tulares
Alexander’s Corner
Monarch
Moron
Asphalto
Cuttens
Deweyville
Hunt
Weringdale
Elmer, Poso
Lerdo
Kern County
Oildale
Bakersfield
Kern River
Bear Mountain
Edison
Caliente
Loraine
Walker Basin
Breckenridge Mountain
Mojave Desert
Freeman Junction
Inyokern
Ridgecrest
Randsburg
Boron
Edwards
Tehachpai Mountains
Tehachapi
San Joaquin Valley
Weedpatch
Maricfpa
Taft
McKittrick
Lost Hills
Wasco
McFarland
Woody
Granite Station
Famoso
Cawelo
Meadowg Field
Public scrutiny urged for California Judicial Commission
The author argues the California Judicial Commission holds great power over judges and should conduct open public hearings to prove fairness. Criticism targets Executive Council secrecy and potential bias due to ties to Chief Justice Rose Bird, urging temporary stepping aside and adherence to democratic norms for public accountability.
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Commission On Judicial Performance
California
Supreme Court
Commission
Executive Council
Judicial Council
Bertram Jones
Comec
John T. Raconelli
Rose Bird
Santa Clara County
Jerry Pacht
Brown
Speaking frankly of death and faith at end of life
A preacher advises framing death with perspective from Hebrews 9 27 and 2 Corinthians 5 8 He suggests telling the patient there may be some medicine left or divine mercy but death is an appointment He urges praying with the dying person asking Christ into the heart and guiding a frank witness of faith to ease fear and pain
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Earth
Christ
Paul
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Park
Cross Mountain
Vaughn
Whiskey Flat
Scodie
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