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“The power you represent is growing and it is growing in very important ways,” Gov. Jerry Brown told hundreds of Latino elected officials from across the country at a conference in San Diego. With the aid of Jerry Brown’s signature, that

A new Field poll released Friday reveals that Californians are growing increasingly disgusted with the state Legislature; only 35% approved of the Legislature while 47% disapproved of them. It appears the plunge in approval was catalyzed by the arrest of

Governor Jerry Brown claims that his $25 billion Sacramento Delta tunnel construction project will ship water to Los Angeles and bring 19,600 jobs per year over the next half century. However, critics claim that his plan is “based on a

The Los Angeles Times reports that despite California Governor Jerry Brown crowing in early 2013, “The prison emergency is over in California,” prison costs have skyrocketed, the prisons are overflowing with criminals, and the overflow has prompted the state to

131 elected California officials, including Governor Jerry Brown, are set to receive a two percent salary increase after the Citizens Compensation Commission, a panel appointed by the governor, approved the raises in a 4-1 vote on Friday. The raises will

California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton, attempting to take the bull by the horns, wrote Texas Gov. Rick Perry a letter chiding him for criticizing California and urging him to march in the June 29 Pride Parade in San Francisco. 

“The budget reflects the parameters of the rainy day fund that the legislature unanimously approved last month. No budget is perfect and no one got everything that they wanted, but with this budget, that insures stability and expands opportunity, we

The Los Angeles Times reports that on Thursday, the California Senate approved a bill that would restrict high school and middle school football teams’ practices both during the off-season and the regular season. The bill, AB 2127, from Assemblyman Ken

Another business climate survey was just released, and, in what won’t be a shock for regular Breitbart readers, it assigns Texas a grade of A+ for small business friendliness with California netting an F. What makes this survey unique is

Weeks before the massive influx of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) from Mexico and Central America hit the U.S. southwestern border, California came one step closer to authorizing $9.2 million to fund undocumented students with college loans under the proposed California

After serving 24 years on the bench, California Supreme Court Justice Marvin H. Baxter has announced he will be retiring come January, which will leave not just one, but two, vacant seats for California’s Democratic Governor Jerry Brown to fill

Covering for California governor Jerry Brown, the California legislature has allotted $250 million gleaned from “cap-and-trade” greenhouse gas fees on businesses to make it look as though Brown’s bullet train is still a viable idea.  But as Dan Walters notes

California’s water problems continue to mount. On Tuesday, a report from the Water Resources Control Board showed that Californians are not cutting their water use to comply with statewide conservation efforts.  Governor Jerry Brown had requested a 20 percent decrease

Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget, which passed a few days ago, reminded me of the old adage that one lie leads to another.   All of his previous budgets have been built on crafty fabrications, faulty assumptions and deceptive gimmicks that

If California GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari wants any chance at winning the general election against incumbent Democrat Jerry Brown later this year, he will have to persuade a sizable chunk of the state’s Independent and Democratic voters to vote

On Sunday, the Democratic-dominated state legislature in California approved the new fiscal year’s $108 billion general fund spending plan. State bill SB852 passed 55-24 in the Assembly and 25-11 in the Senate, largely along party lines. The legislature met on

California lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown have reached agreement on funneling 25% of tax revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade program into constructing the controversial high speed rail project, often referred to as the bullet train. According to the Sacramento Bee,

Rep. Ami Bera, in the wake of an impressive primary win in the 7th District earlier in the month but considered to be vulnerable in November, broke with his party and voted against federal funding for Governor Jerry Brown’s besieged high-speed

Governor Jerry Brown is at odds with the federal government over the issue of Medi-Cal asset recovery, a provision which allows the state to collect money spent on Medicaid from recipients’ estates after they die. Collection of assets after death

“Jobs and Education. That’s It.” But that’s not it for Neel Kashkari’s campaign plans going into the November general election. Kashkari has been repeatedly referring to the success of San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s campaign as a winning indicator for

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis just recognized California for being in the top half for GDP growth by state in 2013. Governor Jerry Brown likes to crow about California being a leader in nation economic recovery and job growth. 

The California State Controller has announced  that sales, income and corporate tax revenue came in $530.4 million, 7.8%, below budget for the month of May.  That substantial budget miss comes less than two weeks after the California Bureau of State Audits

Is Tesla the latest target of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s recent campaign to woo California businesses to the Lone Star State? Perry was seen cruising around in a Tesla vehicle in Sacramento Tuesday, just days after Governor Jerry Brown’s administration

According to the executive director of Cal State University Sacramento’s Center for California Studies, the only way Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari can unseat Governor Jerry Brown is if an asteroid hits earth, reports the San Jose Mercury News.  Steve Boilard, formerly a

The Sacramento Bee has tried to paint California Governor Jerry Brown as the fiscally prudent partner in his squabble with his cohorts in the state legislature over the state’s budget. The reality is that Brown’s budget calls for the state

BEVERLY HILLS — Rick Perry makes “no apologies,” he says, for his efforts to recruit California businesses to his state. He is proud that Texas has surpassed California as the top exporter of technology, and proud of the low-tax, low-regulation

Common Core in California is getting a boost from over 300 California businesses, nonprofits, and children’s groups that released a statement approving of the Common Core State Standards. The statement was circulated by Children Now, a non-profit advocacy group, and

The new buzz in the Beltway is the emergence–or, rather, return–of the “reform conservatives.” Politico’s David Nather reports that these “policy wonks” share a desire to “move the GOP beyond its Reagan-era script of cutting taxes and shrinking government and

A new $5 billion Tesla Motors plant, called a “Gigafactory,” which could employ as many as 6,500 workers, is being competed for by Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, and California.  California lawmakers and CA governor Jerry Brown’s administration are attempting

Neel Kashkari’s victory for a distant second place in California’s gubernatorial primary means he will have another opportunity to get trounced by Governor Jerry Brown in November.  Former U.S. Treasury official and Goldman Sachs guru Kashkari, considered to be the

Governor Jerry Brown has easily advanced in Tuesday’s primary election with over 55% of votes in his favor against his two main rivals, Republicans Neel Kashkari and Tim Donnelly. According to polling data released by the Los Angeles Times, Brown

L.A. Weekly, the ubiquitous guide to popular culture and urban style in Los Angeles, features a Republican wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit as part of the illustration to its cover story this week on the GOP’s candidates for governor

A Sunday feature in the Sacramento Bee suggests–indirectly–that a bipartisan consensus may be emerging in the California State Assembly on the need for additional dams to increase the state’s water storage and fight future droughts. Currently, California is suffering one of

In the wake of Tim Dickinson’s article in Rolling Stone last year pronouncing Gov. Jerry Brown’s “miracle” in California comes John Nichols’s paean in The Nation, entitled: “How Jerry Brown Got Californians to Raise Their Taxes and Save Their State.” While

Gov. Jerry Brown raised eyebrows recently when he dismissed concerns about California’s tough economic environment, which has chased companies like Toyota away: “[S]mart people figure out how to make it,” he said. An increasing number of elite graduates from across