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Where car is king, a gas tax hike pits concern for the poorest versus the need for transportation funding. It's also a bellwether for the Democrats' grip on the state Legislature and in Congress.
California Democrats have declined to endorse Sen. Dianne Feinstein's bid for re-election in 2018, rebuking a powerful senator the party's activist base sees as too conservative for the famously liberal state. Instead, the state party's executive committee voted late Saturday to endorse her challenger, state Sen. Kevin de Leon, in the general election.
Every election has winners and losers, and Mexico's is no exception. While the press is making much of Mexico's centrist PRI and center-right PAN parties being the big losers in last night's election of socialist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico, the real loser is actually up north, in the U.S. Democratic Party.
While some critics worry the legislation doesn't nearly go far enough, other observers are saying "California could be the bellwether for the privacy movement" after the state legislature on Thursday unanimously passed and Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the nation's toughest digital privacy rules. Businesses must disclose what information it collects, what business purpose it does so for and any third parties it shares that data with.
Private property signs block entrance to a dirt road along the perimeter of a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, on June 21, 2018. Private property signs block entrance to a dirt road along the perimeter of a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, on June 21, 2018.
A U.S. judge appeared skeptical of some of the Trump administration's key arguments for seeking to block three California laws intended to protect immigrants, questioning the scope of federal power over immigration during a lengthy court hearing on Wednesday. Judge John Mendez warned at the end of the roughly five-hour session during which he pressed lawyers for both sides not to read too much into his questions, saying he sometimes played "devil's advocate."
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Members of the Arizona National Guard at the Papago Park Military Reservation in Phoenix. Arizona deployed its first 225 National Guard members to the Mexican border in April.
Kim Kardashian West, coming off her a recent a success in getting President Trump to pardon a grandmother serving a life sentence, has taken to Twitter to ask California Gov. Jerry Brown to give San Quentin death row inmate Kevin Cooper the DNA tests he has been denied, tests which could prove his innocence. a Cooper has been imprisoned for 34 years for a a savage crime he insists he did not commit-the slaughter of chiropractors and Arabian horse breeders Doug and Peggy Ryen, both 47, their 10-year-old daughter Jessica, and her 11-year-old friend Christopher Hughes, in 1983.
Ruben Navarrette should add to his list of "Democrats' treatment of immigrants and refugees [is] as bad as Republicans' " , the injury done to our immigrant community when Democratic Gov. Brown and his colleagues released illegal immigrant ex-felons among California residents, including California's immigrant communities where the ex-felons are likely to return. Get editorials, opinion columns, letters to the editor and more in your inbox weekday mornings.
California's primary system could thwart Democrats and Republicans alike on June 5, shutting either party out of key races in the fall. California's primary system could thwart Democrats and Republicans alike on June 5, shutting either party out of key races in the fall.
With Gov. Jerry Brown set to leave office at the end of the year, Tuesday's election results potentially held hints of the shifting power dynamics that will write the state's next chapter. Long assumed to be a Democrat-versus-Democrat race between Lt.
Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders compromised on plans to put millions more toward homeless programs and agreed to pump more money into higher education under a $139 billion general fund budget deal announced Friday. The agreement includes about $1 billion more in additional spending than what Brown proposed last month for the 2018-19 fiscal year beginning July 1. It came one week ahead of the deadline for the Legislature to pass a state budget, which Brown has until June 30 to sign.
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and businessman John Cox will face off in the November election in the race for governor Under California's unusual open primary system, the top two candidates who receive the most votes advance, regardless of party California's crowded field for governor was knocked down to two Tuesday, when voters picked Democratic Lt.
Democrat Diane Feinstein is one step closer to re-election to sixth term in the U.S. Senate after winning the most votes in California's unusual primary election process Tuesday. The 84-year-old former mayor of San Francisco easily outpolled her younger opponent, Democratic state Senator Kevin de Leon, in the state's so-called "jungle primary," in which the top-two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, advance to the November general election.
Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump. Then reveals it was Obama - Ben Bowling graduation speech Courtesy of Ben Bowling - Bell County high school student and valedictorian Ben Bowling wanted to share some words of wisdom with his graduating class, but there was a twist that no one saw coming.
Voters who pass up the June 5 election will find in November that others have made many of their decisions for them. For example, the state's top-two primary system dictates that in five months, there will be two finalists to succeed Gov. Jerry Brown, and polling suggests that one of them will be Lt.
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Judge Gail Ruderman Feuer as associate justice, Division Seven of the Second District Court of Appeal, and Judge Allison M. Danner as associate justice of the Sixth District Court of Appeal. Gail Ruderman Feuer, 58, of Los Angeles, has been appointed associate justice, Division Seven of the Second District Court of Appeal.
Looking at the dismal political landscape for Republicans in California these days, I almost forgot that when I moved to Orange County from Ohio, the state actually had a healthy number of Republicans holding statewide office. In 1998, Pete Wilson was governor, Bill Jones was secretary of state, Matt Fong was treasurer, Dan Lungren was attorney general and Chuck Quackenbush was insurance commissioner.
At a time of broken politics and polarization, the impulse to seek out reforms to the political process is understandable. California, which will hold important primary elections Tuesday, offers a cautionary tale about how good intentions alone are not enough.