DONNELLY: Jerry Brown’s California Legacy is a Dam Failure
Brown and his merry band of Democrats had different priorities, like high-speed rail, benefits for illegal aliens, and unsustainable pensions.
Brown and his merry band of Democrats had different priorities, like high-speed rail, benefits for illegal aliens, and unsustainable pensions.
Governor Jerry Brown issued an emergency order Sunday evening to strengthen California’s response to a potential catastrophic collapse of the Oroville Dam’s auxiliary spillway, and to garner increased support from law enforcement to help with local evacuations.
Officials are releasing water from the Oroville Dam, the nation’s highest, at the astonishing rate of 100,000 cubic feet per second, with the goal of lowering the lake’s elevation by 50 feet before a week of rain and snow hits the region Wednesday.
President Donald Trump could bring high-speed rail lines to America, taking up the mantle that Barack Obama started but failed to complete.
On Friday, California Governor Jerry Brown sought federal help from President Trump by asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to declare “a major disaster” in California in light of the damage done by recent storms.
The strong posturing by California Democrats is setting the table for a major battle between President Trump and the Republican Congress on the one hand, and the ideologically left-wing leaders of the largest state in the union.
California’s House Republicans have penned a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to block a pending $650 million federal grant for California’s troubled high-speed rail project until an audit of the project’s finances is completed.
California may soon be drought-free after experiencing the highest levels of runoff from the Sierra Nevada snowpack in 22 years.
Health officials have confirmed that the highly-contagious measles outbreak has sickened nearly two dozen people and has struck at least two Jewish day schools in Los Angeles County.
Is California Governor Jerry Brown preparing to run for President against Donald Trump in 2020? Today, as I listened live to his State of the State address, I couldn’t help but thinking that Brown sure sounds like he wishes he ran in 2016.
California Governor Jerry Brown was expected to deliver a combative State of the State address on Tuesday, as he outlined his plans to fight President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, Obamacare and climate change. He did that — but departed from his prepared text to praise Trump’s commitment to spend federal funds on infrastructure and to use union labor.
The FBI is on the hunt for a Heckler and Koch MP5 10mm and a bullet proof vest that were stolen from an agent’s car in California on January 8 or January 9.
Despite tax collection increasing by 50 percent in the last 9 years, California’s public pension insolvency is forcing Gov. Jerry Brown to propose a dangerously unpopular 42 percent increase in gasoline taxes and a 141 percent increase in vehicle registration fees.
A new, confidential federal report shows that the initial segment of California’s partially federally-funded high speed rail (HSR) project will come in massively over budget and far behind schedule, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Gov. Jerry Brown warned this week that despite record economic growth, California’s $122.8 billion budget will suffer its first deficit since 2012 due to spending growing twice as fast as the economy.
California State Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Paramount) kicked off Tuesday’s confirmation hearing for newly-appointed state Attorney General Xavier Becerra by predicting a “legal war” between California and the Trump administration.
California’s crippling five-year drought has come to a temporary halt in the northern part of the state, as roughly 350 billion gallons of water came pouring into the region’s biggest reservoirs over the past few days, boosting storage to levels not seen in years.
San Diego’s moderate Republican mayor, Kevin Faulconer, may make a run for Governor of California in 2018 against a tough Democratic field.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has increased fundraising for his run in the wide-open race for governor of California in 2018, but notes that it’s been a trying task.
SAN FRANCISCO >> “Sutter” Brown, a Pembroke Welsh corgi christened California’s first dog by his owner Gov. Jerry Brown, died Friday following a brief illness. He was 13.
The State of California has passed a controversial law decriminalizing prostitution for minors by treating them as victims, not criminals, but that has some legislators arguing that in theory, it legalizes child prostitution.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is slashing its organizing budget by $90 million, in a sign that unions fear their message will not resonate during a Trump administration, according to Businessweek.
I’m not in the habit of complaining at the outset of a column, but I’ve taken on a nearly impossible task — figuring out which, of the hundreds of new California laws about to go into effect, are the stupidest.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has suggested that the State of California could bypass the administration of President Donald J. Trump and work directly with foreign governments in advancing the cause of climate change, the New York Times reports.
Beverly Hills Mayor John A. Mirisch has taken Uber’s side in its fight with the State of California over the company’s effort to roll out self-driving cars without a special permit.
Los Angeles County supervisors Janice Hahn and Hilda Solis are asking their colleagues to join them in setting aside $1 million in county funds that can be used to help illegal immigrants fight deportation.
Jerry Brown had fighting words for President-elect Donald Trump during a speech to the annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Wednesday in San Francisco, during his speech to the American Geophysical Union, Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) while vowing to the crowd of climate scientists that he will “fight” President-elect Donald Trump’s administration on climate change policy, Brown took a swipe at
Wednesday in San Francisco, during his speech to the American Geophysical Union, Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) vowed to the crowd of climate scientists he will “fight” President-elect Donald Trump’s administration on climate change policy. Brown said “So we’ve got the scientists,
Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin is one of the few prominent Republican officials in California. Her mission, when she took office, was to keep her city from bankruptcy. She sought help everywhere, including California Governor Jerry Brown and President Barack Obama.
Many states usually squander millions to bribe companies to bring in factories that will employ thousands of blue-collar workers, but California’s ‘Go-Biz’ program will squander a quarter of a billion dollars this year to add just a small number of high-paying, mostly white-collar jobs.
Gov. Jerry Brown has nominated Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) to take Kamala Harris’s place as Attorney General of the State of California.
The National Weather Service issued a statement indicating there is no tsunami threat for the West Coast following the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck off Japan’s eastern coast, near Fukushima.
A group of left-wing Californians, frustrated with the recent election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States, has filed an application to put a secession referendum — “Calexit” — on the 2018 ballot.
While blue states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan turned red for Trump, California turned a deeper shade of blue.
Results of a new U.S. Forest Service aerial survey revealed that, since 2010, more than 102 million trees have died in a 7.7 million acre swath of California forest land, and the culprit is drought.
On Thursday, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa officially became the fourth Democrat to enter the race to become California’s 40th governor, after Jerry Brown is termed out in 2018.
California Gov. Jerry Brown is campaigning for Hillary Clinton in the swing state of Colorado, telling voters there that they can make the difference in the 2016 presidential election.
For decades, California courts have prevented any cuts to luxurious public employee pensions, but the California Supreme Court is now reviewing arguments in a case that could allow slashing benefits.
Lieutenant Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday that he now supports of California’s $64 billion high-speed rail system, after opposing it and withdrawing support for the controversial project just two years ago.