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16
Jun 2010
CalPERS today will likely approve a $600 million increase in state contributions to the beleaguered pension fund.
The fund's benefits and program administration committee Tuesday recommended the increase in a unanimous vote. The full board...
16
Jun 2010
City officials will make preparations to issue pink slips to 200 police officers who could be out of a job by mid-July.
No final decision on cutting police has been made, but the City Council voted Tuesday to direct administrators to...
15
Jun 2010
Agreeing to hear an appeal from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether the state can be forced to release 46,000 inmates - more than one-fourth of its prison population - to relieve...
15
Jun 2010
Riverside County supervisors Tuesday voted to place a union-backed measure to protect public-safety pensions on the November ballot.
The initiative, supported by the Riverside Sheriff's Association, qualified for the ballot last month...