“Republic of Thirst” is a three-part series made possible by a generous fellowship from the Robert Novak Foundation. Part I of examined the debate over how California’s scarce water resources should be allocated. Part III will examine whether those resources can
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) said climate change was “very much devastating in a similar way” as Nazis were during World War II. Brown said, “We need more rapid transit. We need trains. We need more
Despite dire predictions of a necessary increase in severe weather events due to climate change, 2018 is poised to become the first year on record with no violent tornadoes in the United States, the Washington Post reported.
When asked about his thoughts on the 2020 field, outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown recently told the Associated Press that white men will “probably be running things for quite a bit of time” and wondered, “What’s wrong with white men?”
Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown has declined a request by San Francisco Mayor London Breed to grant clemency to her brother for a manslaughter conviction for which he was sentenced to 44 years in prison in 2000.
London Breed’s brother pushed a woman from a getaway car after an armed robbery in 2000, and the woman was subsequently hit by an oncoming vehicle driven by a drunk driver.
Jerry Brown told members of the media Tuesday that one of the most important lessons he had learned in his long political career was: “In politics you take care of your friends. Keep meritocracy within limits.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal was already tried under Obama — and failed. The U.S. reduced emissions by following the opposite of her advice.
California’s State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) voted Wednesday to approve the Bay-Delta plan, which will re-allocate water from farms and cities to the environment in an effort to restore dwindling fish numbers.
Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown told National Public Radio (NPR) that the Democratic Party is becoming more radical than the majority of voters would prefer — though he blamed Republicans for the shift.
Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown will not be in office to see his “twin tunnels” project completed — if it is ever begun at all — after the state’s Department of Water Resources withdrew a key certification last Friday.
Democrats are defending “ballot harvesting” in California as zealously as they are denouncing it in North Carolina.
Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown has reached a deal with U.S. House Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to extend the 2016 Water Infrastructure for Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act, which would provide more water to farmers and fund water storage in the state, to 2021.
Incoming California governor Gavin Newsom plans to reverse outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision to send the California National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to assist President Donald Trump’s enforcement efforts.
California Democrats “stole” the midterm election using a method that is illegal elsewhere but completely legal in the Golden State: a practice called “ballot harvesting,” which allows third parties to submit mail-in ballots for voters.
California Governor-elect Gavin Newsom revealed on Thursday that he will call back the California National Guard from the border when he is sworn into office in January.
(AFP) — The deadliest and most destructive fire in California’s history was finally brought totally under control by firefighters, more than two weeks after it erupted, authorities said on Sunday. “#CampFire … is now 100% contained,” Cal Fire, the state
Ever since President Trump tweeted about the real cause of the California wild fires, celebrities, union leaders, activists and leftist politicians have been lining up to tell us how evil and wrong Trump is.
California Governor Jerry Brown issued a pardon Wednesday to former Democratic State Senator Roderick Wright, who lied about living in the district he had been elected to represent and became a symbol of corruption in the state capital.
Sunday on CBS’s’ “Face the Nation,” Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said the increasing wildfires in California meant that “in less than five years” the “worst skeptics” were going to be believers in climate change. On the California fires, Brown said, “Well,
“I’ve never seen anything like that,” Trump said about the fires. “And what we saw there wasn’t as bad as some of the areas where we’re not allowed to go, where we just can’t go for safety reasons. Some of the areas are worse than that.”
California Governor Jerry Brown and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom announced that they will join President Donald Trump during his visit to California on Saturday.
U.S. Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is demanding that the U.S. commit to shifting 100% of its energy consumption to renewable energy as part of a “Green New Deal” she is demanding party leaders support.
President Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday afternoon that he had called California Governor Jerry Brown to offer his support in the battle against the ongoing California wildfires — the most destructive in the state’s history.
Celebrity Chef and TV star Guy Fieri served meals to California wildfire first responders this weekend.
President Trump was partly responsible for the California fires because he ‘denies’ climate change. At least that’s what liberal California would have us believe.
California Gov. Jerry Brown blamed climate change for the devastating California wildfires, despite a complete lack of evidence — a day after President Donald Trump was widely criticized for blaming poor forest management.
The California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) voted Wednesday to delay the adoption of the controversial new Bay-Delta plan after most of the stakeholders asked for more time to negotiate agreements on water use.
California Gov. Jerry Brown began spending political capital on Friday to stop the Proposition 6 gas tax repeal’s momentum in last days before the election, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Sunday that will require companies to meet quotas for the representation of women on corporate boards.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the state of California on Sunday after Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown signed a net neutrality law on Sunday.
“Because the services required by this bill are widely available off-campus, this bill is not necessary,” Brown said.
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Saturday that would have allowed wealthy taxpayers in the state to continue paying high state taxes voluntarily, and to avoid President Donald Trump’s new cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions.
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed legislation Friday to expand the state’s gun confiscation law and raise the minimum age for long gun purchases to 21.
There once was a time when California was a model for the rest of the country. Decades ago, it used to be said, “As California goes, so goes the nation.”
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill last week that requires California students to be taught about “fake news” and how to avoid it.
California charter schools are now required to teach comprehensive sex ed, thanks to the efforts of Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Act for Women and Girls.
California Governor Jerry Brown ordered an audit of the state’s troubled Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) — after Republican John Cox made the long wait times and administrative chaos of the DMV a core issue in his 2018 campaign.
California Governor Jerry Brown has a pattern of appointing cronies — sometimes unqualified ones — to state boards, according to columnist Dan Walters of Calmatters.org.
Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was “going to undermine America and even the world” if we didn’t “get rid of him.” Brown said, “We have never had a president who was
