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Schwarzenegger sued Controller John Chiang on August 11, aiming to force the unpaid furlough of 15,600 more state workers two days a month. [87] Even though he earlier promised to not sign any bills, Schwarzenegger signed a measure on August 26 for a statewide bullet train system that he strongly supported. [88]
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
The California State Student Association (CSSA), also known as the Cal State Student Association, is an "unincorporated income tax-exempt association". [3] [4] CSSA is exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code and it is exempt from state franchise or income tax under California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 23701d.
(Reuters) -Boeing said on Wednesday it will temporarily furlough tens of thousands of employees after about 30,000 machinists went on strike on Friday, halting production of its best-selling 737 ...
The 2011–2017 California drought persisted from December 2011 to March 2017 [1] and consisted of the driest period in California's recorded history, late 2011 through 2014. [2] The drought wiped out 102 million trees from 2011 to 2016, 62 million of those during 2016 alone. [ 3 ]
Bush initially announced that federal workers would not be paid for the furlough days, but Congress passed legislation granting them back pay due to the threat of lawsuits. [8] The cost of the shutdown was $1.68 million, mainly as a result of lost revenue, not including back pay amounting to an additional $837,000. [5]
High schools in the state are divided into four divisions (three prior to 2008) based roughly on enrollment; since 2008, there has also been an Open Division for which all schools are eligible. [2] Starting in 2015, a new format was implemented to increase the number of state bowl games from 5 to 15, thus allowing every CIF Section champion to ...
Founders Hall. Humboldt State Normal School was established as a teacher's college on June 16, 1913, by California governor Hiram Johnson. [8] It was one of about 180 "normal schools" founded by state governments to train teachers for the rapidly growing public common schools.