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California State Senator Sharon Runner died on Thursday morning at the age of 62, after experiencing respiratory complications.

Just days after Governor Jerry Brown signed an “assault weapons” ban on rifles with “bullet buttons,” among other California gun laws, the inventor of the button has introduced the “Patriot Mag Release,” a device that makes even the AR-15 California-compliant.

In 1989, California became “the first state to ban assault weapons,” and since that time, it has enacted a steady stream of gun controls, only to see violent crime rise and high-profile shootings–including terror attacks–betray the lie that gun control saves lives.

On July 1, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation requiring residents to surrender or otherwise dispose of all high-capacity gun magazines.

On June 30 lawmakers declared “full-blown war” on the Second Amendment by giving final approval to a body of gun control legislation known as “gunpocalypse.” It now sits on Governor Jerry Brown’s desk.

Every California governor for the last 44 years has used the state’s line-item-veto to kick-out the most egregious fantasy spending by the legislature, but Governor Jerry Brown signed this year’s record $125 billion budget without a single spending veto.

A new study conducted by Stanford researchers suggests that California has groundwater resources “three time greater” than previously estimated.

It’s a knock-down, drag-out, Democrat-on-Democrat battle between Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) and California Attorney General Kamala Harris for Sen. Barbara Boxer’s soon-to-be-vacant seat — and Sanchez is appealing to jilted Republicans with an endorsement from former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan.

On Monday, unionized grocery workers in San Diego County voted to authorize strikes against Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons to protest the latest wage offer from the supermarket food chains.

With a little over two more years left in office, California Governor Jerry Brown agreed to a $122.5 billion budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year that adds $2.7 billion of mostly unfunded new spending for welfare, schools and prisons.

Californian Democratic Governor Jerry Brown reached a final budget deal with the state’s Democrat controlled Legislature that will increase spending on low-income housing subsidies and child care by $400 million, even though California state tax revenues are plummeting.

A Bay Area medical practitioner is opening up his own euthanasia practice, taking advantage of this Thursday’s implementation of California’s new physician-assisted suicide law.

Wednesday’s murder/suicide on the UCLA campus again exemplifies the fact that gun-free zones are not gun-free for the criminally inclined.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) vowed Wednesday to ban the practice of fracking throughout the United States if he becomes president.

California Gov. Jerry Brown announced Tuesday morning that he will be voting for Hillary Clinton in the California primary on June 7 because, in his view, she is the only candidate capable of defeating Donald Trump.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s distant vice presidential prospects may be more remote than ever, as a state appellate court appears ready to strike down California’s “cap-and-trade program as an unconstitutional tax.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has not yet endorsed either of the two Democratic presidential candidates ahead of the June 7 California primary.

U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris described a lukewarm position on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) at Saturday’s United Farm Workers convention in Bakersfield, saying she was very skeptical of the practice.

California Governor Jerry Brown announced his official endorsement of the state’s Attorney General, Kamala Harris, for U.S. Senate on Monday over U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA).

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is campaigning hard in Southern California this week, determined to fight to the finish and deny Hillary Clinton her crowning moment in the June 7 California primary, forcing a “contested convention” in Philadelphia in July.

Voters in California will face a tidal wave of ballot measures in the November general election, on issues from the death penalty and condoms to marijuana and plastic bags.

California Treasurer John Chiang officially joined the 2018 governor’s race, and will be competing against fellow Democrat Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to take over outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown’s post.

Los Angeles Times columnist Mariel Garza suggested Tuesday that the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee — likely Hillary Clinton — choose California Gov. Jerry Brown as her running mate.

Los Angeles County is reportedly considering a local income tax to raise funds towards addressing the city’s homelessness crisis.

Journalists and reporters in the Bay Area are joining forces to flood news and social media with reports on San Francisco’s homelessness epidemic next month, with the hope that it will create a “wave” of coverage that will ultimately force politicians to take action to fix a problem that lurks at almost every corner of the space-starved city.

California Gov. Jerry Brown warned state legislators on Friday that they should be prepared for falling revenues, presenting a revised $122.2 budget that he cast as a conservative plan for tighter fiscal times.

On Wednesday, a coalition of left-leaning labor and healthcare groups announced that they have gathered over 980,000 signatures, which would enable them to place Proposition 30 on the November 8 ballot.

California Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order Monday making some of the state’s temporary drought restrictions permanent.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Wednesday that raises the state’s legal smoking age to 21, and restricts the use of e-cigarettes — “vaping” — in public places.

Following GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign rally and speech at the California GOP Convention, where protesters raged last week, Gov. Jerry Brown commented on Trump’s success throughout the primary election, saying it’s a “strange” phenomenon.

California Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) is pushing to expand firearm confiscations by allowing co-workers and others to file a complaint that sets the “secret” confiscation process in motion.

The first accomplishment of California’s pioneering $15 minimum wage law is killing the revival of America’s clothing industry.

On April 14, the Firearms Policy Foundation — together with other organizations and individuals — filed a suit against the state of California and Attorney General Kamala Harris, alleging the state made special “exemptions” for former police officers in order to secure passage of Senate Bill 707, which banned concealed carry on college campuses.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban medical marijuana cultivation in the county’s unincorporated areas temporarily.

When Governor Jerry Brown rallied with crime victims on steps of the State Capitol Thursday, he did not mention his 2016 ballot proposal seeking accelerated release for numerous prison inmates.

Portions of Southern California could face widespread blackouts this summer due to gas shortages caused by October’s catastrophic Porter Ranch methane gas leak.