WASHINGTON (AP) — A tentative deal has been reached between agriculture workers and growers, a key senator said Tuesday, smoothing the way for a landmark immigration bill to be released within a week.
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The word “gay” came out of the closet during President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech Monday. In a wide-ranging speech about equality, Obama mentioned “gay brothers and sisters,” making him the first president to use the term in an inauguration address.
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California, once an afterthought in the battle for control of Congress, has become a top target for deep-pocketed political action
committees.
Since an independent panel recast California’s political boundaries two years ago, the state’s newly drawn congressional districts are now the most competitive House landscapes in the nation and are attracting money at an unprecedented clip — more than $45 million so far.
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At Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, the subject of the day was a proposed renewable energy plan, CleanPowerSF. No member of the board objected to the notion that the plan would give San Franciscans the option of using 100 percent renewable energy instead of just contracting with PG&E.
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It is time for everyone to get onboard with the Central Subway project — the largest Muni project in recent years.
This week, the excavation of nearly a full block in San Francisco began as construction workers started ripping up the streets around Fourth and Bryant. The project is for a “launch box,” the staging ground for next year, when two massive hole-boring machines will ultimately serve as the tunnel for the new Central Subway line.
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The signals are strong. One year after being shot in the head, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is on a mission to return to the job she so clearly loved.
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Despite a decision by the House of Representatives to cancel all funds for high-speed rail projects this year, the architects of California’s bullet train proposal said the setback will have little effect on their plans.The Republican-led House opted to defund about $100 million designated for high-speed rail plans Thursday, a move that came as little surprise from a group that has targeted large government projects for cuts.
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It has not been a good week for those whose livelihoods depend on either having access to the power brokers and decision-makers of the Washington federal establishment, or being one of them. Like the great and mighty Wizard of Oz, who was exposed as all too human when Dorothy’s little dog Toto pulled back the curtain, the public’s business in Washington, D.C., was shown to be conducted for private gain.
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Congress is on the verge of killing funding for President Barack Obama's signature high-speed rail program, but it may have some life in it still.Republican lawmakers are claiming credit for killing the program. But billions of dollars still in the pipeline will ensure work will continue on some projects. And it's still possible money from another transportation grant program can be steered to high-speed trains.
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Only in the Fantasyland-on-the-Potomac would work by federal civil service employees on behalf of their unions be classified by government as “voluntary” activity. Believe it or not, though, that’s exactly what the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the
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