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A year after more than 1 million people rallied at women's marches around the wo... . In this Jan. 17, 2018, photo, Jeri Burton makes a sign in preparation for a rally in Las Vegas.
Category Archives: Jerry Brown
Walters: Brown sees ramifications for killing the golden geese
To intertwine cliches, Gov. Jerry Brown let the cat out of the bag last week and acknowledged that he's concerned about killing the golden geese. Those geese are the few thousand Californians with the highest incomes whose taxes allow Brown and other California politicians to spend tens of billions of dollars a year and the new federal tax overhaul encourages them to take their money elsewhere.
Gavin Newsom is the target as 6 candidates battle in California governor debate
Six candidates for California governor clashed over health care, education and immigration issues in the first major debate of 2018 on Saturday morning at USC. The lively debate frequently pitted Gavin Newsom against everyone else.
Governor candidate, Delaine Eastin, campaigns in Paradise
Paradise>> Delaine Eastin, candidate for the Governor in California visited Paradise Wednesday and urged those at the Paradise Ridge Democratic Club to consider education worthy as California's top priority. “If we focused more on education, we wouldn't have to spend nearly as much on incarceration,” Eastin said.
Rick Scott isn’t the only Republican who opposes offshore drilling. Far from it.
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke's surprise trip to Tallahassee Tuesday night to announce Florida would no longer be considered for future offshore oil and gas drilling leases has left governors and lawmakers from other coastal states wondering when their voices will be heard as well. Last week, after the Trump administration released an unprecedented plan to sell off more than 90 percent of America's oceans to offshore drillers, a large and bipartisan group of elected officials - including at least five Republican governors, two Republican senators, and 15 Republican U.S. representatives from coastal states, along with scores of Democrats - denounced the proposal.
In his final state budget, Gov. Jerry Brown is tying up loose ends…
Gov. Jerry Brown was in typical form at a Wednesday news conference on his proposed 2018-19 state budget. It seemed like Gov. Jerry Brown was tying up loose ends and starting to pack as he unveiled his 16th and final state budget proposal Wednesday.
‘Be loyal to the idea of California,’ says Gov. Jerry Brown
Gov. Jerry Brown during an interview with The Times at his Northern California ranch near Williams on Dec. 28, 2017. Gov. Jerry Brown during an interview with The Times at his Northern California ranch near Williams on Dec. 28, 2017.
Man Whose Son Was Killed By Illegal Immigrant ‘Furious’ At Jerry…
A man whose son was murdered by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco said he is "furious" about Gov. Jerry Brown for signing a bill to make California a sanctuary state on "Fox and Friends" Wednesday, and feels he is betraying Americans to favor foreign criminals. "I'm furious, and I'm waiting now for the Justice Department to go after these guys," the father, Don Rosenberg said.
ICE is increasing presence in California because of ‘sanctuary…
Taking a jab at Gov. Jerry Brown, President Trump's top immigration chief on Wednesday said he was preparing to "significantly increase" his agency's enforcement presence in California because of last year's passage of a landmark "sanctuary state" law. "California better hold on tight," Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said on Fox News.
Blog: Another Disclosure Requirement for California Higher Education…
All higher education institutions in California, with the sole exception of the California Community College system, will beginning with the 2018-19 academic year have to provide their students an annual summary of their total borrowing to pursue their education and an estimate of their future monthly payments. Majority Leader Ian Calderon, the author of the new law , describes its purpose as ensuring that college students have up-to-date information about their cumulative student loan debt when they are making borrowing decisions.
Jerry Brown: California saved its economy by doing the exact opposite of what the GOP wants
Recognizing the threat of climate change, cutting fat from the budget and raising taxes - that's the threefold plan California's Gov. Jerry Brown says brought his state's economy back from the brink. In an interview with "60 Minutes," Brown talked about how legislating for climate change and increasing taxes on the wealthy helped take California from the ninth largest economy in the world to the sixth and turned more than $50 billion of debt into a budget surplus of over $7 billion.
Aftershocks likely from September test detected from North Korea…
Inside Trump's Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation WASHINGTON - Around 5:30 each morning, President Trump wakes and tunes into the television in the White House's master bedroom. He flips to CNN for news, moves to "Fox & Friends" for comfort and messaging ideas, and sometimes watches MSNBC's Trump watches up to eight hours of TV per day: report - spends at least four hours a day watching television, according to a new report.
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan: Respect existence or expect resistance
Last week in Bonn, Germany, thousands gathered at the heavily secured United Nations climate conference, dubbed “COP 23,” a Potemkin village of bureaucrats, politicians, environmentalists, journalists and local support staff. Sixty kilometers away, in the 12,000-year-old Hambach Forest, scores of activists, living in treehouses, defended the old growth woodland in an ongoing struggle to save the rare ecosystem from destruction and stop the expansion of Europe's largest open-pit mine, a sprawling hole in the earth where energy company RWE extracts lignite, or brown coal, the dirtiest coal on earth.
Fossil fuel emissions climbing again
Traffic passes through polluted air in Ningbo, China. Fossil fuel emissions in China are projected to grow by approximately 3.5 percent in 2017, leading a global increase.
Rep. Kevin Brady on unifying GOP on tax reform
This is a rush transcript from "Fox News Sunday," November 12, 2017. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
Californians strongly oppose Trump – and 53% say state’s…
A year after his election, President Trump remains wildly unpopular in California, and the state's voters are split over whether members of Congress should work with him when possible, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll has found. The percentage of voters seeking cooperation overall - 47% - dropped somewhat when it came to Trump's immigration policies, which the state's Democratic officeholders have fought with legislation and lawsuits.
California governor heads to Europe for climate talks
California Gov. Jerry Brown is continuing his international fight against climate change with an 11-day trip to Europe starting Saturday including stops at the Vatican and a United Nations conference in Germany. Brown is a chief adversary to Republican President Donald Trump in the battle over U.S. climate policy, promising to help the country reach its emissions reductions targets even as Trump withdraws from an international climate accord.
Letter: Losing our hard-earned money
Are you aware that the price of gasoline and diesel fuel will go up Nov. 1 due to Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Legislature? Senate Bill 1 raises the gas tax by 12 cents per gallon and diesel by 20 cents. Also, your auto registration will rise on a sliding scale somewhere between $25 and $175 depending on the value of your car.
‘This Administration Doesn’t Have a Clue.’ Meet the…
Donald Trump's latest Twitter dustup is with California megadonor Tom Steyer, who is funding a push to impeach the 45th president. On Friday morning, Trump appeared to have caught wind of the effort, criticizing the progressive activist on Twitter by calling him "wacky and totally unhinged."
Dispelling Myths and Misinformation on the Road to an AIDS-Free Generation
When Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill to modernize California's outdated HIV laws, the national movement to end criminal prosecutions based on a person's HIV-positive status achieved a great milestone. The enactment of Senate Bill 239, sponsored by state Sen. Scott Wiener and Assemblymember Todd Gloria, moves California to the forefront in eliminating the stigma that arises for people living with HIV from these types of prosecutions.