Senator Kevin de León, who will take over as senate president pro tem this month, and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins each told a Sacramento audience about growing up in poverty and the role it has played in their shared priorities. WATCH THE VIDEO: http://bit.ly/1v1uFgk
One year after his acquisition — Bezos purchased the Post from the Graham family, for $250 million, a year ago today, on Oct. 1, 2013 — media analysts remain puzzled by his decision to buy the paper. There has been no major digital innovation, no radical new product launch, no change to delivery or presentation,
Citing broad exemptions under California's legislative records law, the state Senate is keeping secret a taxpayer-funded report about Capitol staff hiring friends and relatives despite calls by lawmakers, statewide candidates and public interest groups that it be released. Peter Scheer, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, said the Legislature's special records law should be
In introducing the first major change to the state's initiative process in four decades, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said his new law would increase public participation in the initiative process and spare the state potentially costly and divisive campaigns. Initiatives could be amended based on public input during a 30-day review period at
State and federal wildlife officials this month are preparing extraordinary measures to protect Chinook salmon returning to spawn in California’s drought-depleted rivers. Sacramento River fall-run Chinook salmon are making their way upstream from the Pacific Ocean to begin their annual spawning ritual. These fish, primarily produced in hatcheries, make up the most abundant salmon run in California and
BREAKING NEWS: The fight for control of Congress is EXTREMELY CLOSE, but unless something changes BEFORE MIDNIGHT, Democrats are going to suffer CRUSHING DEFEATS under a wave of Republican big money. But wait, Republicans, too, are being BEAT UP and CAN’T DEFEND THEMSELVES against Democrats who are OUTRAISING them. Welcome to the politics of gloom,
What if they called an election and nobody came? That seems to be the story this November. Turnout for the June primary, just 25 percent of registered voters, was the lowest in history. The November turnout will probably not surpass 45 percent, also an historic low. Many analysts assume that this lower turnout bodes well
California outpaced its recent job growth as employers added 44,200 nonfarm positions in August — far more than any other state. But for the third straight month, the state unemployment rate remained flat at 7.4%, according to Employment Development Department data released Friday. That's higher than the national rate, which edged lower last month to
When California taxpayers voted two years ago to sharply – albeit, temporarily – raise income taxes on the state’s highest-income residents, they touched off a debate over whether it would spur the rich to flee to low- or no-tax locales, such as neighboring Nevada. There have been some anecdotal accounts of such movement, but no evidence
Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin, who is running for state controller, and secretary of state candidate Pete Peterson, executive director of Pepperdine University's Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership, are two Republicans who fall into this camp. Both are bright, hardworking and favor clear-eyed analysis over hysteria, political stunts and tea party talking points.