Gun-rights groups will try to recall California lawmakers
Post your opinion here Also Read: Immigration Bill: 8 Indian IT cos form lobbying consortium TCS declined to comment on the issue, citing it as a legal matter. The issue relates to a contract for development of a tax collection and management system for Orange County in 2007-2008. TCS won the bid for the job for an amount of about USD 8 million. According to the contract, Tata America International Corporation (TCS America) was to develop and implement the Property Tax Management System Project for Orange County. The lawsuit was filed in April this year in the California Central District Court, people with knowledge of the development said. It alleges that TCS made "a series of false promises and intentional misrepresentations" during the bidding process and "made promises to complete the project on a budget and according to a timeline with which they had no intention of complying." The lawsuit further claims: "The county has suffered millions of dollars of damages as a result of defendants' wrongful conduct and it will continue to suffer damages for the years it will take to develop a replacement for the failed project." When contacted, a TCS spokesperson said: "As a matter of policy we http://cortrightlaw.com/location/Orange Attorney-attorney-office don't discuss pending legal matters.
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Setting Taxpayers on Fire in California
21, said Steve Lyle of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. That's in California's Central Valley, one of the nation's richest agricultural regions. The California Department of Food and Agriculture in Sacramento is working with the affected county to plan a quarantine, which is expected to go into effect "next week at the earliest," said Lyle. It will require that all fruit coming out of the affected area be specially cleaned before it is packed. "It would be more difficult harvest and pack the fruit. But there wouldn't be much impact on consumers," said Joel Nelsen, president of California Citrus Mutual, a citrus producers trade association based in Exeter, Calif. The insect isn't the real reason growers are worried. The psyllid (pronounced SILL-id) is a small, winged, brown-speckled insect. It likes to eat young citrus leaves and is mostly a nuisance. But it can carry the world's most damaging citrus disease called Huang Long Bing, or Yellow Dragon Disease.
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California Citrus Mutual elects chairman
Its a one-year term. Severns has served on the board since 2007, most recently as vice chairman. Hes also a board member at Sunkist Growers and vice chairman of the management committee for the industry-funded Citrus Pest and Disease Prevention Program. Severns is a former director of the Citrus Research Board. He has represented the California citrus industry on various issues on trips to Sacramento and Washington, D.C. He is undoubtedly an asset to the California Citrus Mutual Board and an exemplary leader for the California citrus industry, California Citrus Mutual president Joel Nelsen said in a news release. The trade association has 2,200 grower members who represent 75% of Californias 275,000-acre, $2 billion citrus industry.
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O.C. business website aims to lure companies
But is this true? No. But yes. UnionWatch relies on compensation data provided by Orange County itself, which appears to buttress their claims. Average salaries for firefighters top $91,000, on top of which they typically receive another $65,000 in overtime and other supplementary pay. Firefighters then receive an employer pension employer contribution of around $61,000 and health insurance benefits of about $15,000, for a total of over $234,000. Heres why UnionWatch.org is incorrect.
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They were pushed by these very legislators, Kerns said. Were going directly to the source. But even if they succeed in forcing a recall election, proponents may face an uphill fight. Four of the Democrats won office with at least 64 percent of the vote. Only Quirk-Silva, against whom recall backers will need to gather the most signatures, represents a somewhat swing district; she won election in 2012, 52 percent to 48 percent. Legislative elections here are far more expensive than they are anywhere else, a difference that favors incumbents and the party organizations behind them. In California, the teacher unions are far better organized than gun groups, and they would work hard to protect Democratic incumbents, Pitney said. For the moment, at least, hostility toward the state legislature has abated. We passed a budget on time and went through the year without additional tax increases. Things will probably change for the worse in the years ahead, but for now, Californians are keeping their pitchforks in the cellar. And unlike in Colorado, where gun-control advocates are pursuing another recall against a Democratic state senator that could flip control of the chamber, California Republicans are nowhere near exerting control over either legislative chamber.
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Insect could threaten California Orange Attorney groves
Orange County is not the first to promote itself. Los Angeles has a come-hither site chooselacounty.com that boasts: "More than 300 days of sunshine annually" and "Beyond entertainment 14 thriving industry clusters." San Diego's site, sandiegobusiness.org , promotes the county as "regionally focused, globally competitive," and touts its "more than 80 academic and applied research institutions." LocationOC contrasts Orange County's 6.8 percent unemployment rate with that of its neighbors in a chart showing San Diego's 8.1 percent, Ventura's 8.5 percent, Los Angeles' 10.2 percent, San Bernardino's 10.8 percent, and Riverside's 11.1 percent. The portal cites companies that have moved to Orange County since 2009, including several from nearby counties. The list includes Alorica, a call-center operator that transferred its headquarters from Chino to Irvine; Sizzler USA, which relocated from Culver City to Mission Viejo; and Extra Express, a shipping company that moved from Paramount to Brea. LocationOC links to information on state and local incentives and resources: enterprise zones, foreign trade zones, employee training, business permitting, and business support organizations. The council, which is funded by more than 300 of the county's largest employers, works to retain businesses that may be considering a move. According to council publications, a red team helped reduce an unnamed local manufacturer's costs by $750,000.
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