Lodi News-Sentinel Top Story North San Joaquin Water Conservation District directors look to take action on water use, filling empty positions For board members of the North San Joaquin Water Conservation District, the next 30 days will feature a firestorm of tasks and meetings. Although the board did not adopt a budget or determine any...Read More

Stockton Record November 26, 2009 By Scott Smith Record Staff Writer November 26, 2009 12:01 AM Prison health-care receiver J. Clark Kelso has filed a notice to move a lawsuit filed against him over a proposed inmate medical center near Stockton to federal court in Sacramento. The move drew criticism from local leaders as being...Read More

Stockton Record November 25, 2009 It was a puzzling, but not altogether unexpected, reaction local officials received Friday from federal prison health care receiver J. Clark Kelso. Stockton, San Joaquin County and the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce earlier in the week had sued Kelso and state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations officials to make...Read More

Stockton Record November 18, 2009 By Scott Smith Record Staff Writer November 18, 2009 12:00 AM STOCKTON – A coalition of local leaders followed through Tuesday on threats to take state prison officials to court after unveiling plans in recent weeks to build a 1,734-bed inmate medical center southeast of Stockton. The Stockton Greater Chamber...Read More

Stockton Record October 28, 2009 By Scott Smith Record Staff Writer October 28, 2009 12:00 AM STOCKTON – J. Clark Kelso made his inaugural visit to Stockton on Tuesday as the prison health care receiver for what community leaders called a belated meeting on plans to build a medical center for state inmates southeast of...Read More

Stockton Record October 23, 2009 By Michael Fitzgerald Record columnist October 23, 2009 12:00 AM The federal receiver’s grossly unjust decision to dump a new prison hospital on Stockton is a classic example of treating the Valley as a second-class citizen. San Joaquin County soon may be stuck with five prison facilities, if both the...Read More

Stockton Record October 21, 2009 By Scott Smith Record Staff Writer October 21, 2009 12:00 AM STOCKTON – Stockton will be home to a new prison hospital, California corrections officials announced Tuesday, highlighting the jobs it will bring to the economically challenged community. Plans for the California Health Care Facility, Stockton, at the same time...Read More

Capital Press October 8, 2009 Agency ruled liable for breaching water delivery contracts By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press A group of California irrigators and other water users will be able to seek damages from the federal government for withholding water due to environmental restrictions. A federal appeals court has decided the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation...Read More

Earth Times October 5, 2009 WASHINGTON – (Business Wire) Roger J. Marzulla of the Washington, D.C. law offices of Marzulla Law LLC today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued a decision holding the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation liable for breach of contract for failure to deliver water from...Read More

Contra Costa Times October 2, 2009 The federal government must compensate two regional water authorities for water diverted to preserve the environment, a federal appeals court ruled this week in a landmark decision that could open the floodgates for agencies who contend the government is taking water from them for fish. After a 16-year legal...Read More