The Democratic Party's bid for a new supermajority in the state Senate has failed, thanks to Republican victories in a few key races, and the party was on the way to losing its supermajority in the Assembly as elections officials finished counting ballots in pivotal campaigns across California. Republicans prevailed in two races, one in
At the John L. Burton Democratic headquarters, California Democrats were partying like it was Election Night 2010, the year when Republicans won in every corner of the nation but in this deep blue state. Maybe self-satisfied Democrats should have thought of 1994. Sure, Democrats swept statewide offices for the second time in four years, and
Associated Press Personal information about more than 18.5 million Californians was hacked, stolen or otherwise exposed last year, and as many as one-third of those people will become victims of fraud, California Attorney General Kamala Harris said on Tuesday in a new report on data breaches in the nation’s most-populous state. Retailers, banks, health care
California's pioneering climate-change law has a long reach, but that doesn't mean all its mandates will help stave off global warming. To meet the requirement that it cut carbon emissions, for example, Southern California Edison recently sold its stake in one of the West's largest coal-fired power plants, located hundreds of miles out of state.
Democratic operatives, worried that election night could be a major disappointment, are preparing a damage control offensive meant to convince the rich liberals who opened their wallets wide in 2014 that their money wasn’t spent in vain. Efforts are being made to temper donors’ expectations by reminding them that oddsmakers had been predicting a Republican wave,
Gov. Jerry Brown told reporters Monday that he would not seek to renew sales and income tax increases that are due to expire at the end of 2016. Sold as a measure to alleviate public schools after years of destructive budget cuts, California voters approved Proposition 30 in 2012 with a margin of over 10 percentage
Voting by mail is now the rage in California; in the June primary more than 69 percent of the ballots were cast before Election Day. It is very possible that a majority of votes this November will be by mail. And thanks to Paul Mitchell and Political Data Inc, for the first time we can
California favored son George Lucas takes his "iconic" and entirely self-financed museum to Chicago because he grew exasperated with four years of "doodling around." http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/article3002740.html
The Democrats' quest to regain their supermajority in the state Senate could be decided next month in an ethnically diverse section of Orange County and a large swath of farmland and rural towns about 300 miles away in the Central Valley. The races are the only two so far in which Gov. Jerry Brown has
More than 24 million of California’s 38 million residents are legally eligible to vote this year – that is, they are 18 years or older and U.S. citizens. Only about three-quarters of the eligible – 18 million or so – actually will be registered to vote, and it would be very surprising if 9 million