Tagged: California Budget

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10:24am

Thu May 31, 2012
Morning News Roundup

Connecting the Dots: Top news stories for Thursday, May 31, 2012

(Sac Bee) // Support for the tobacco tax, Prop 29, is slowly going up in smoke – thanks in part to $38 million invested in advertising by tobacco companies R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris...

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11:43am

Tue May 15, 2012
Morning News Roundup

Connecting the Dots: Top news stories for Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Bay Area News Group // Oakland’s Oikos University lost six students in a campus massacre last month – and now students enrolled in the Oikos nursing program may lose their school if they don’t improve their test scores within the next two years. Administrators say they’re working on it…

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5:07pm

Tue December 6, 2011
Economy/Labor/Biz

The Sales Tax Debate: Amazon v. the State of California

Credit Under CC license, Flickr user 401K

That 52-inch flat-screen TV you just bought your loved one (or yourself) for the holidays should be arriving any day now. And what a deal – nice picture, good price, delivered right to your door. And since you made the purchase online, you weren’t charged California sales tax for that shiny new piece of technology.

Here’s the thing though: there’s a good chance you owe the California government some money. And the state needs it. You know it and Governor Jerry Brown knows it.

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