By John Sepulvado | Capitol Public Radio
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This session, California lawmakers have passed health care bills designed to protect consumers and implement the new federal health care law. Yet, lawmakers are also likely to cut millions of dollars from health care services.
Most of the health care [...]
By Kenny Goldberg | KCBS-FM
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California — Some statewide doctor groups say Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget threatens to undermine the new health reform law. Physicians are especially concerned about the governor’s proposed cuts to the Medi-Cal program.
The governor wants to cut Medi-Cal spending by giving patients [...]
By Malcolm Maclachlan | Capitol Weekly
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SACRAMENTO, CA – Twenty-two people, many of them severely disabled, were arrested at a protest outside the Capitol building on Wednesday afternoon.
According to organizers, somewhere between 250 and 300 people were participating in a planned 1 p.m. protest against budget cuts affecting disabled people. The group left [...]
Businessweek
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A protest over proposed California budget cuts spilled into the streets of the capital and led to the arrest of nearly two dozen people who blocked a downtown intersection.
Sacramento police arrested 22 people who blocked a major artery in front of the Capitol for several hours Wednesday afternoon. Sgt. Norm [...]
Capitol Alert from Sacramento Bee
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A protest this afternoon against proposed state budget cuts to In-Home Supportive Services, Medi-Cal and CalWORKs ended with 22 people arrested, police said.
All but one of those arrested had been released by 5 p.m., said Sgt. Norm Leong, a spokesman for the Sacramento Police Department.
The intersection at 11th [...]
John Myers | KQED-FM Capitol Notes
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A budget impasse that lasts beyond Labor Day could lead to another year of California issuing IOUs instead of cash for invoices owed.
But, says Controller John Chiang, he’s not issuing a firm deadline to lawmakers this time around.
In remarks this afternoon to the Sacramento Press Club, [...]
By Brandon Darnell
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About 20 protesters – many of whom were in wheelchairs – were arrested Wednesday afternoon after blocking L Street in front of the Capitol to protest cuts to in-home care services in the state budget.
“Those services provide the means for people to live independently and stay out of nursing [...]
KOVR-TV (CBS)
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13/AP) ―Almost two dozen people were detained Wednesday afternoon after angry protesters blocked a major downtown Sacramento roadway over fears of more social service cuts in the new budget.
Hundreds of demonstrators packed the streets and sidewalks near the State Capitol building, blocking the intersection of 11th Street and L [...]
By Queenie Wong | Sacramento Bee
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Almost two dozen protesters opposing proposed budget cuts to In-Home Supportive Services and other state programs were arrested Wednesday after they and others blocked a street next to the state Capitol.
About 100 protesters, some of whom were blind or in wheelchairs, stopped in the intersection of [...]
The Associated Press
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A protest over proposed California budget cuts spilled into the streets of the capital and led to the arrest of nearly two dozen people who blocked a downtown intersection.
Sacramento police arrested 22 people who blocked a major artery in front of the Capitol for several hours [...]
