Greenhouse gas law among 11th-hour bill signings…
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, facing a midnight deadline to deal with 300 bills, signed legislation Tuesday aimed at helping the state fight global warming by better coordinating local planning efforts to curb suburban sprawl. San Francisco Chronicle and Sacramento Bee
I’m all for “smart growth” and “growth that takes care of the environment” as it spreads, but the future here is concerning.
This new law reverts back to my concern that government desires to control where you live, what you drive and manipulate you out of “your vehicle” so to depend upon government transportation. At which time, the unionized government transit employees will control your daily commute to work or play, as they strike and put a gun to your head for more pay and tax dollars.
The other concern is the ’foothill region’ in our area, what happens if the presentation turns to these homes and commuters as being “bad people”? Will they have no government funded roads and highways, as well as paying a fine for living “outside of the approved areas of development”?
Controlling where people live, what they drive and how they gain transportation in the future, at the risk of their incomes, jobs and land liberty in America.
California to require restaurant calorie disclosure…
In an effort to battle the bulge, California became the first state Tuesday to require chain restaurants to post the calorie content of menu items. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that will affect about 17,000 facilities once it is fully implemented in 2011.
Sacramento Bee and San Jose MercuryNew law requires stores to tell you where your food comes from…
Born in the USA? Made in Mexico? Picked in Peru? Cultivated in Canada? Supermarket shoppers, now you know.
San Jose Mercury Which one of these “new laws” do you preference to be better for the consumer? I’m a tad bit of a radical here, but I like both of these laws - I want to know where my food comes from and I do like to know “what is in the food” I’m eating each day.California looks to spend $10 million for vehicles…
The state Department of General Services is shopping for $10 million worth of new law enforcement vehicles, offering a boost to beleaguered automobile retailers. Officials at General Services, the state's procurement arm, invited auto dealerships statewide – and the vehicle manufacturers they work with – to submit bids for police cruisers and SUVs earlier last month.
Sacramento BeeSo what dealership should get the “sweet deal” here - at a time when dealerships are folding like cards in this economy and state? Maybe the government shouldn’t look toward “just the cheapest” dealership, maybe we should “bail out” a dealership that is on the brink of bankruptcy. (My tongue is firmly planted in my cheek.)
2008 Ballot Watch: Proposition 5: Nonviolent offenders…
