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Thursday, March 4, 2010
VENTURA COUNTY STAR
Assemblyman Roger Niello, R-Sacramento, has submitted bills in each of the past two years that would deal with the mortgage debt forgiveness issue on a stand-alone basis.
He said he is not hopeful that the standoff will be resolved before the April 15 tax-filing deadline
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
LEGALNEWSLINE.COM
"Neither justice nor economic vitality is served through excessive punitive legal extractions," said Niello
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
SENATOR COX
Assemblyman Niello added, "It is small businesses that will spark a robust economic recovery. We need to hear from those who are directly impacted by the government's regulations."
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
SENATOR DAVE COX
Despite the cold temperature and rain, corporate executives and small business owners gathered into the Roseville Maidu Community Center to air their frustration about the state's costly and inconsistent regulations.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
FOLSOM TELEGRAPH
Sponsored by the Folsom Chamber of Commerce as one of a series of public hearings with state Sen. Dave Cox (R-Fair Oaks) and Assemblyman Roger Niello (R-Fair Oaks), the latest also featured Folsom City Councilman Steve Miklos and El Dorado County Supervisor John Knight.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
L.A. NOW
Assemblyman Roger Niello (R-Fair Oaks) said he likes it when people make bold proposals, like the train system, but added, "So did Don Quixote. I have huge concerns about this project.''
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
SACRAMENTO BEE
The revelation raised a ruckus on the Assembly floor. Assemblyman Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks, asked with some acidity about the relationship between the state's water system and a tolerance center.
"All I'm trying to do is parse the pork," Niello said.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
LA TIMES
In the Assembly, Roger Niello (R-Fair Oaks) complained that the legislation was "running roughshod over the water rights" of northerners.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
SACRAMENTO BEE
The state water plan approved last week poses huge risks to Northern California and the Sacramento area. Unfortunately, The Bee's articles on Nov. 5 hardly mentioned this.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
CAPITOL WEEKLY
Assemblyman Roger Niello, R-Sacramento, and Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Linden, don't agree on much. But both are against the water plan being negotiated between the Legislature and the governor - and both think they have the votes to kill it.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
CAPITOL WEEKLY
The Commission on the 21st Century Economy has delivered its recommendations for some tune ups to the current tax system. The report was nine months in the making, and as you'll see, this little bundle of joy has something for everyone (to love and to hate).One thing is for sure: the status quo ha
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Monday, October 5, 2009
SACRAMENTO BEE
What's good for small business is good for California, and it's time we started behaving as such. If our economy is to do a 180-degree turn, it will be because we treat California's businesses as our partners in recovery, not as subjects in our fiefdom.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"We are protecting ourselves literally to death," said Assemblyman Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks (Sacramento County), at a Capitol news conference held by Republicans to call for action, including legislative hearings and further study to determine costs, or benefits of specific regulations.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
"The protection of students is important. The viability of the institutions that serve the needs of the students is also important. AB 48 strikes a good balance. It protects students in a way that does not overly-burden the schools that provide the education and vocational training necessary to help
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Friday, September 4, 2009
CALIFORNIA PROGRESS REPORT
In what one Assemblyman called "our finest moment," the Assembly on Thursday overcame its partisan differences long enough to pass a bill allowing 600,000 California children to keep their low-cost Healthy Families insurance cover
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
LEGALNEWLINE.COM
Assemblyman Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks, authored the legislation, outlined in Assembly Bill 470.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
THE SACRAMENTO BEE
Community publisher Messenger Publishing Group was named the year's top small business in the 5th Assembly District by Assemblyman Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks. The honor was presented in late May, his office said.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Others, including Assemblyman Roger Niello (R-Fair Oaks), said the state must face the situation as it is. "We are being driven by an economy that has absolutely collapsed," said Niello, the committee's vice chairman. "This is nobody's vision of where we wanted to be."
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
THE SACRAMENTO BEE
No matter what happens in the special election May 19, California's government finances will remain a mess. It took years of mismanagement and economic misfortune for the state to dig itself into this hole, and it is going to take many years to climb out of it.
As the climbing begins, the state n
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Monday, May 4, 2009
SACRAMENTO BEE
After mixed results in court battles to keep operating casino-style machines, California charitable bingo parlors are seeking financial relief in the Legislature and from tribal gambling funds.
But casino tribes protest reinstating a $5 million account originally created to compensate charities f
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