intra-party race
The California Assn. of Realtors has put more than $207,000 toward getting Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown reelected in a tough intra-party fight in the Inland Empire.
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Senate’s odd couple forge unlikely alliance on environment
In this May 19, 2016, file photo, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., embraces the committee's ranking member Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. One is a Brooklyn-born, northern California liberal who carved out time in a two-decade Senate career to write a politics-sex-and-power thriller or two.
Backers say time is right for legalized marijuana
Proponents of the Adult Use Marijuana Act say it is time to shine a light on what is already a well-established industry in California that needs to be regulated. "The time is right, the support is there .
Court: Officer killed man less than a second after command
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Tustin Police Officer Osvaldo Villareal couldn't reasonably have feared for his safety when he shot 31-year-old Benny Herrera after responding to a domestic dispute call in December 2011. That determination ran counter to the Orange County District Attorney's Office, which said in 2013 that the shooting was reasonable and justified because Villareal fired after Herrera ignored orders to show his hands.
Calif. asks to let undocumented adults buy insurance
In a move that is sure to draw the ire of Republicans, California officials are asking the Obama administration this week to approve a plan that would allow undocumented immigrants to buy health insurance on the state's public exchange. Officials say up to 30 percent of the state's 2 million undocumented adults could be eligible for the program, and about 17,000 people are expected to participate in the first year, if the plan is approved.
Wealthy Californians Spending Big on Out-of-State Elections
It's been more than a quarter of a century since a Republican presidential candidate won California. And polls show that the Democratic winning streak is likely to continue.
Tampon tax survives in California. Will it last in other states?
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday rejected an attempt to waive taxes on tampons and other feminine hygiene products along with other proposed tax breaks, saying lawmakers should propose such ideas as part of the annual state budget process rather than as one-off exceptions. Women buying tampons and parents buying diapers will continue to pay sales taxes on those items thanks to vetoes California Gov. Jerry Brown announced on Tuesday.
Republican State Party Power and 2016
In the 22 years since the 1994 Republican midterm landslide, the landscape of partisan power in state governments has changed dramatically. The Republican Party was the minority party in state government for almost seventy straight years before the Gingrich Contract with America transformed not only control of Congress but vitally control of state legislatures, long the hardest bastion of Democrat power in politics and quietly the key to Democrat dominance of American politics.
Who won, who lost in legislative session
SACRAMENTO >> California has a long tradition of adopting bold, far-reaching policies that other states scramble to follow, and the work lawmakers accomplished during the two-year legislative session that ended early Thursday is sure to add to that list. While Democrats acknowledged falling short in their quests to fix the state's crumbling roads and tackle an affordable housing crisis that has crippled the Bay Area, they still strengthened a commitment to fight climate change, boosted the minimum wage to $15 an hour and tightened rules for gun owners following two high-profile mass shootings.
California lawmakers deliver for liberals on climate, wages
California delivered on its reputation as a testing ground for liberal ideas as state lawmakers wrapped up a legislative session that extended the nation's most ambitious climate change programs, raised the minimum wage to $15 and toughened gun laws. While they failed to address some of the maddening challenges afflicting Californians' daily lives - most notably, skyrocketing housing costs and crumbling roads - lawmakers advanced top priorities for the labor, environmental, gun-control and anti-tobacco movements.
At Lake Tahoe, Obama links conservation to climate change
Standing beneath the forest-green peaks of the Sierra Nevada, President Barack Obama drew a connection Wednesday between conservation efforts and stopping global warming, describing the two environmental challenges as inseparably linked. Obama used the first stop on a two-day conservation tour to try to showcase how federal and local governments can effectively team up to address a local environmental concern like iconic Lake Tahoe, which straddles California and Nevada.
Southland Assembly members divided on immigration bill
A bill that would further limit interactions between California law enforcement agencies and federal immigration agents is getting a mixed reception from Southern California Assembly members, with at least several still undecided. The bill, SB 54, passed the state Senate in April.
28 postal workers charged with mail theft, other crimes in Southern California
Twenty-eight U.S. Postal Service employees, mostly in Southern California - including the former president of the Mail Handlers Union - have been charged with crimes including mail theft, embezzlement, bank fraud and conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday, Aug. 26. The 28 are among the 33 people charged as a result of an investigation by the U.S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General. Most were charged in indictments handed down by federal grand juries this week.
Hillary Clinton’s California swing yields $19 million in 72 hours
Hillary Clinton raised over $19 million during a three-day, nine fundraiser swing through California this week, putting the former secretary of state on pace to make August the largest fundraising month of her 2016 campaign. Clinton headlined a series of star-studded events in Southern and Northern California this week, hobnobbing with celebrities, Hall of Fame athletes and tech billionaires, all while filling her campaign's coffers with needed cash for the final months of her race against Donald Trump.
Man In Underwear Crashes Truck Into Airliner
The FAA has established 12 Centers of Excellence to pursue research into safety, alternative fuels, airport operations and other aviation... EAA's 2 millionth Young Eagle, plus three others in the count around the milestone, received their memorable airplane rides at... Before you can fly an F-35, you're going to spend time in the T50a simulator.
Tacos with a Congresswoman, candidate for California Senator
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, one of two Democratic candidates for the California U.S. Senate seat, talks with a reporter at Cocina Cortes in Chico on Friday. The race for the California Senate seat this year is an unusual one, with two Democrats running against each other for the first time, and two minority women at that, to replace retiring fourth-term Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Challenger goes after McClintock on tree mortality
Democrat Bob Derlet, of Sonora, will challenge Republican incumbent Rep. Tom McClintock, of Elk Grove, in California's GOP-leaning 4th Congressional District, which covers Tuolumne, Calaveras and five other Sierra foothill counties. The Democratic candidate who is challenging the Mother Lode's incumbent Republican congressman, Rep. Tom McClintock of Roseville, issued a statement Friday questioning whether McClintock is "dodging" constituent concerns about the tree mortality crisis that has killed 66 million trees in the Sierra Nevada.
California legislature may ditch plan to radically reduce emissions
Gov. Jerry Brown has taken the national stage to tout California's fight against global warming, telling cheering throngs at the Democratic National Convention that the state has “the toughest climate laws in the country.” Yet inside the state Capitol, the fate of the policy's centerpiece - legislation to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions - is in peril. One ominous sign: Brown on Thursday opened a fundraising committee, taking the first step toward putting an environmental initiative on the 2018 ballot in case the bill fails in the Legislature.
[Shawn Hubler] Competence isn’t sexy, but it’s needed in the White House
In 2003, the year Californians swept Arnold Schwarzenegger into the governor's office, a Democratic friend shared a theory on why poor Gov. Gray Davis had been recalled. "Some years, people want a plumber," he shrugged, "and some years, they want glamour.
Thousands of stolen guns in California used in crimes
Standing in the driveway to his home on Sacramento Street in Stockton, California, 13-year-old Rashawn Harris says goodbye to his daddy. Moments later bullets from a gun owned by Anthony Silva , the Mayor of Stockton, tear through his body, killing him instantly.