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The State’s “First Green Industry” Wants to Tax Itself — Gov. Brown Lets Them
California’s 44 registered renderers got their wish September 26 as Gov. Jerry Brown signed renderer-sponsored legislation to reimpose on themselves a lapsed $3,000 annual regulatory fee.
The hope is that more revenue will allow the state Food and Agriculture Agency to do a better job preventing thefts of a lucrative part of the rendering industry – inedible kitchen grease. Read more »
A Round of Mango Mojitos on the House: Infusion Is No Longer Rectification!
Gov. Jerry Brown has made California safe for lemoncello lovers and imbibers of Martian Martinis, bacon bourbon, cucumber gin, Bloody Marys tingling with habanero vodka and even Mona Lisa Green Monsters, margaritas infused with medicinal marijuana.
Up until the Democratic governor signed SB 32 on September 21, any cocktails made with “infused” alcohol sold by bars and restaurants violated state law. Read more »
Chief Executives Cannot Live By Kale Alone
Gov. Jerry Brown spent part of Sunday September 11 at the Yolo Land Trust’s Annual “Day in the Country” fundraiser at Park Winters, an 1865 Victorian near Winters.
The Democratic governor, who was not accompanied by First Lady Anne Gust, practiced the diversity he says he prizes, sampling a broad swath of the creations by chefs from various Northern California eateries. Read more »
Don’t Saturate Lawns But California’s Drought Officially Over
(Editor’s Note: A March 17 article in the Capitol Weekly, penned by the chief correspondent of California’s Capitol, noted that despite the state’s strong hyrdrologic condition, California was officially still in a drought because a February 27, 2009 executive order by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared the state in a drought emergency. Read more »
The First Dog Cometh and, Shortly Thereafter, Goeth Away
(Editor’s Note: The chief correspondent of California’s Capitol was recently inside the Governor’s Office, obtaining a new press credential for which, mercifully, an extensive background report is not required. He files this report:)
Standing in the hallway and chatting with a friend near the Governor’s Press Office – the rooms previously occupied by First Lady Maria Shriver and her staff – an unescorted corgi waddles around a corner from another office. Read more »
It’s Hard Sometimes to Distinguish Between Truth and Fiction
(Editor’s Note: It was Kevin Brett’s rather endearing custom to pen spoof press releases upon the ocassion of the birthdays of selected Capitol Press Corps reporters. In this case, 22 years ago, if was for the spouse of the governor’s deputy press secretary.) Read more »
Would it Be a Level of Threat Like, Say, Spraying Malathion?
Governor Brown and Director of Public Health Issue Statements on Radiation Safety
SACRAMENTO – Governor Jerry Brown and the interim director of the California Department of Public Health, Dr. Howard Backer, today assured Californians that public health and safety do not face any threat from radiation released at nuclear facilities in Japan this week. Read more »
Gov. Jerry Brown’s Take on His 9th State of the State Speech
SACRAMENTO — Warning that California will not create the jobs it needs “unless we get our fiscal house in order,” Gov. Jerry Brown challenged state legislators today (January 31) to allow people to vote on his three part plan to solve the state’s financial crisis.
“My intention is to make California again a leader in job creation, renewable energy and state of the art efficiency, innovation of all kinds and primary and secondary education,” he said in his State of the State address before a joint session of the state legislature. Read more »
A Visit to Jerry Brown’s Conference Room — and Its Bookcase
The first thing a visitor notices in the austere but cheery gubernatorial conference room now occupied by Jerry Brown isn’t the absence of Conan the Barbarian’s sword or the Southwestern art on the walls, it’s the presence of books.
Lots of them.
And an eclectic mix at that.
The second thing is the glorified tan wood picnic table that serves as a conference table. Read more »
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