Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Los Angeles Times has obtained a letter from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warning that his state may need an emergency $7 billion bridge loan to maintain cash flow as it awaits sales and income tax receipts at the end of this year and in early 2009. The trouble? Seized-up [...]

Lost in the hubbub over Hurricane Gustaf, party leaders’ phone-ins and Republican preganancy rates is what should have been a triumphal return by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzegger to the Nicollet Island Park Pavilion in Minneapolis, where last night his state’s delegation held a late-night party under twinkling red, white and blue lights.
The pavilion — a [...]

The Republican National Convention will only run from 3 to 5:30 p.m. on Monday owing to the expected landfall of Hurricane Gustav tomorrow evening. The agenda will be limited to party activities, with expected speeches by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Laura Bush and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger canceled. Bush is expected to address the [...]

As noted here last week, supporters of toll roads veer both right and left ideologically, from Greens in Sweden to arch-conservatives at Bush’s Department of Transportation (DOT). Minnesota officials of all political stripes favor toll lanes on Hwy. 394 and (soon) I-35W. Now comes news that opposition to tolls can swerve across party lines as [...]