SACRAMENTO: Jerry Brown tax hike plan, governor stepping up efforts to squelch two competing tax hike ballot measures; report, Assembly committee rejection of Jerry Brown welfare-to-work cuts; Assembly Speaker John Perez op-ed, benefits of his middle-class scholarship legislation....

***Various items relating to doings in and around the Capitol....

* Sacramento Bee:  "Assembly committee rejects Jerry Brown's welfare-to-work cuts"

* Los Angeles Times:  "Brown steps up efforts to squelch competing tax hike proposals" - "Two measures in addition to the governor's would raise levies, but experts say too many hikes on the ballot could cause voters to reject all of them."

* Sacramento Bee:  "SEIU president tells Jerry Brown's tax-plan rivals to step aside"

* Sacramento Bee (John Perez op-ed):  "Middle-class scholarship bill will aid all Californians"