Gov. Jerry Brown is reporting that he has nearly $21 million in the bank for his re-election campaign, even though he faces no serious competition for the top spot in the June 3 primary. Brown reported Tuesday that he has raised nearly $4 million this year from a variety of interests and spent just $77,000,
One out of three patients admitted to California hospitals has diabetes, which adds $1.6 billion to health care costs a year, a study released today found. Researchers looked through patient discharge records of those 35 and older as well as hospital financial data from 2011 and found that an average 31 percent — or about
A new era under the state Capitol dome began on Monday with the inauguration of Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins. But, in truth, it’s more the beginning of the end for a different era… a major one in California politics. The soon-to-end era began almost exactly 19 years ago after the elevation of only the third
“We haven’t paid for what we’ve done…we only have so much money,” he said, describing his budget as “my best cut on how to spend the money.” Brown says he wants to “take the future and bring it forward and handle it,” as opposed to spending new money now and worrying later how to sustain
The move is part of a sea change in American manufacturing: After three decades of an exodus of production to China and other low-wage countries, companies have sharply curtailed moves abroad. Some, like Generac, have begun to return manufacturing to U.S. Shores. California, however, is not a primary point of repatriation. Although no one keeps
With decline-to-state voters now the fastest-growing political “party” in California, it’s becoming cool to be nonpartisan. Candidates for secretary of state, insurance commissioner and superintendent of public instruction are either running without party labels or doing their best to disguise or downplay their partisan leanings. http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2014/05/14/nonpartisan-tag-growing-more-attractive/
California's political campaigns are already combative and expensive, but the top-two primary system, in effect this year for the first time in statewide races, has upped the ante by forcing new strategies in fundraising, polling and even the timing of attack ads. This is the first year in which top two is in play in
An agreement between Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders on a rainy-day fund Thursday came uncharacteristically early in the state’s annual budget-making process, with none of the public rancor that seemed likely only recently. Republican lawmakers, who had been all but ignored by Brown on budget matters since early 2011, had the numbers to block any
NBA MVP Kevin Durant's moving speech from the heart about what got him there — especially his mother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRJgKbibB8
Analysis of the busy final days of the 2013-14 legislative session by Capitol Weekly, a content partner of The Gualco Group, Inc. Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento and Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez of Los Angeles are both Democrats, but the two are hardly friends. The events of the last week captured the uneasy,