Fresno Bee-8/10/10 By Robin Hindery (Associated Press) Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday completed the process of removing an $11.1 billion water bond from California’s November ballot and delaying it for two years. The governor signed two bills, one of which postponed the water bond vote until November 2012. The other delayed the terms of...Read More

L.A. Times-8/11/10And then there were nine. The water bond known as Proposition 18, which was to be the first of 10 measures on the Nov. 2 ballot, has been put off for two years, leaving voters with slightly less campaign material crowding their mailboxes, fewer words in the ballot pamphlet to read and understand, and...Read More

Sacramento Bee-8/11/10By Dan WaltersCommentary When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature enacted a sweeping package of water bills that included a $11.1 billion bond issue last year, they ignored a powerful – albeit unwritten – rule of Capitol life. That rule says any major policy decree must have virtually unanimous support from every stakeholder group...Read More

We are still unpacking all that happened with the vote on AB 1265.  One item worth mentioning is that Assembly Member Jared Huffman not only voted to stop the delay of the water bond (against AB 1265) as we had requested, he worked quite hard trying to persuade colleagues to redo the water bond, rather...Read More

Below you will find a letter written to Senator Joe Simitian of the Senate Select Committee on Delta Conservation.  Zeke expresses perfectly why the report on flow criteria for the Delta approved last week by the State Water Resources Control Board is a document that should be used for making decision regarding future management of...Read More