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Brown, lawmakers cut deal on Prop. 39 funds

For a while, at least, it appeared that state government was pitching a perfect game.

 

Proposition 39, a ballot initiative to change corporate state income tax policy by closing a $1 billion loophole approved years before during the Schwarzenegger administration, won 61 percent of the vote, despite the dim odds confronting any measure that

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Public cemetery districts: A dying breed?

Apparently 2012 wasn’t a banner year for California cemeteries, particularly the one maintained by the Kern River Valley Cemetery District.

 

It’s not that there isn’t a market for plots. The U.S. Census Bureau says 242,848 Californians died last year alone.

 

People are just dying to get in somewhere else.

 

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