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		<title>Waste Connections to move headquarters to Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Folsom based Waste Connections, Inc., said today it&#8217;s moving its headquarters to The Woodlands, Texas. Waste Connections, Inc is a trash hauling company. Waste Connections is one of the Sacramento area&#8217;s fastest growing companies as well the largest publicly traded company in Sacramento County. The company has been unhappy with the anti-business climate in California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Sacramento is a protest with no purpose</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entering their 7th day a group of local Sacramento residents occupy Cesar Chavez Park. When asked what their message or agenda is they cannot give any type of clear and concise answer. The group consists of people that are angry and want to blame someone as well as people just fed up with big corporations. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacramento City Council Votes to Approve $550K on Arena Consultants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sacramento City Council voted 7-2 to approve spending $555,000 on the consultants for the new arena. The only decenting votes came from Sandy Sheedy and Darrell Fong. Sheedy said &#8220;a limit to what we can do in terms of funding an arena.&#8221; . . . &#8220;We are moving ahead with money that we can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One death blamed on Sutter Nurses Walkout</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sutter nurses staged a one day walkout last week and one person is allegedly dead because of it. A female patient at an Oakland hospital died due to what the hospital described as a &#8220;medical error&#8221; made while she was under the care of a replacement nurse hired during a labor dispute. Sutter Health was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers Arrested at the State Capitol in Sacramento</title>
		<link>http://www.fromthecapitol.com/teachers-arrested-at-the-state-capitol-in-sacramento-2592</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 16:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to force legislatures to increase taxes California Teachers Association union members staged a protest at the state capitol yesterday. At 6pm when the capitol closed the union members refused to leave even when asked to do so by the California Highway Patrol. In the end 26 of the protesters were arrested. &#8220;They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacramento County Employees Fail To Hide Pension Amounts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 20:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sacramento County Employees Retirement System attempt to hide pension levels has failed in court. The County claimed that reveling pension levels would subject elderly retirees to harassment. A claim the court did agree with. The Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento said the names, benefits and work histories of Sacramento County retirees are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elk Grove Unified School District Cutting Transportation for Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 20:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Elk Grove School district will be cutting bus transportation for some student starting next year. The cuts are due to the $40 million budget reduction from the state for the 2011-2012 school year. The district has cut $100 million from its budget in the last three years. In addition to transportation cuts the EGUSD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students First Organization is Moving to Sacramento</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Kevin Johnson&#8217;s finance, Michelle Rhee, is moving her national organization, Students First, to Sacramento. Johnson made the announcement during his annual State of the City address. He said that Rhee had been wooed by mayors around the country and that he was &#8220;not ashamed to say that I pulled out all the stops and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger&#8217;s personal favor to Fabian Nunez</title>
		<link>http://www.fromthecapitol.com/schwarzeneggers-personal-favor-to-fabian-nunez-2371</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stabbing and murder are apparently not a serious crime in the eyes of Arnold Schwarzenegger. One of Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s last official acts was to commute the manslaughter sentence of the son of former state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. Esteban Nuñez, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in the October 2008 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown takes the oath today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Brown will be sworn in as California’s 39th governor today. The event takes place at the Sacramento auditorium where Arnold Schwarzenegger began his second term in office. Jerry promises to kee the event low key. Jerry Brown is scheduled to sworn in at Sacramento’s Memorial Auditorium at 11am. He’s reception will be in the [...]]]></description>
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