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MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE EXPENDABLES'; Manly Gore and Brawn, Not Tragedy or Poetry

August 13, 2010 By A. O. SCOTT On the very weekend that his younger sister Julia undertakes a spiritual and culinary quest around the globe in ''Eat Pray Love,'' Eric Roberts, also well within his actorly comfort zone, plays an especially despicable villain in ''The Expendables,'' the new film by Sylvester Stallone. Mr. Roberts is James Munroe, a renegade C.I.A. guy holding the... Full article »

California Unions Take Pay Protest To Movies

August 11, 2010 By DAVID STREITFELD SAN FRANCISCO -- State workers across the country have long complained about budget-cutting by way of furloughs and pay cuts. Now California's state employee unions are taking the fight to the wellspring of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity: the big screen. The workers, scheduled by the governor to be on unpaid leave on Friday, say they will... Full article »

New Furloughs In California

July 29, 2010 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday brought back furloughs for thousands of state workers until California passes a budget. Mr. Schwarzenegger issued an executive order requiring state workers to take three unpaid days off per month starting in August. State workers were furloughed 46 days when Mr. Schwarzenegger issued a... Full article »

On State Pay Cuts, Judge Rebuffs California Governor

July 17, 2010 By JENNIFER STEINHAUER LOS ANGELES -- A California judge on Friday declined a request by the Schwarzenegger administration to compel the state controller to reduce the pay of 200,000 state workers to the minimum wage while lawmakers muddled though a budget impasse. In 2008, the Republican administration sought to impose the minimum wage on state workers, citing a 2003... Full article »

It's Lonely Outside

July 11, 2010 By JENNIFER STEINHAUER LOS ANGELES -- If the mark of a real independent is lack of friends, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the quintessential nonpartisan in American politics right now. His approval rating has not risen above 30 percent since May 2009. California remains in deep fiscal distress. He is despised by the state's workers (whose pay he cut), Democrats (who... Full article »

Law in Arizona Is Causing Split In Border Talks

July 7, 2010 By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD PHOENIX -- For nearly 30 years, the governors of the states that line both sides of the United States-Mexico border have gathered to celebrate border bonhomie. They issue proclamations and pledges to work together, air grievances and concerns behind closed doors and pose for the cameras in symbolic showings of cooperation. But this year the 28th... Full article »

NATIONAL BRIEFING | WEST; California: Governor Wins on Pay

July 3, 2010 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A state appellate court sided Friday with the Schwarzenegger administration in its effort to impose the federal minimum wage on tens of thousands of state workers. On Thursday, the state controller had refused to copmly with an order by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pay 200,000 state workers the lower wage, $7. 25 an hour, because the state still... Full article »

NATIONAL BRIEFING | WEST; California: Governor Says Time Isn't Right for a Water Bond

June 30, 2010 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to pull an $11 billion water bond off the November ballot, after spending much of last year fighting to put it before voters. The governor, a Republican, had called improving the water storage and delivery system a priority, but on Tuesday, he said putting the measure on the ballot this year, when the state faces a... Full article »

Medicaid Cut Places States In Budget Bind

June 8, 2010 By KEVIN SACK Having counted on Washington for money that may not be delivered, at least 30 states will have to close larger-than-anticipated shortfalls in the coming fiscal year unless Congress passes a six-month extension of increased federal spending on Medicaid. Governors and state lawmakers, already facing some of the toughest budgets since the Great... Full article »

Primaries Test Mood Of Voters At Midterm

June 8, 2010 By JENNIFER STEINHAUER; Ana Facio Contreras contributed reporting from Burbank, Calif. LOS ANGELES -- Republican candidates made a final and frenzied plea to California primary voters on Monday, each claiming to offer the most viable and formidable challenge to their Democratic competitors, who, unchallenged by their own party mates, remained largely silent. Zipping across the state from Friday until Monday evening -- as zippy as one... Full article »

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