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UC to freeze California enrollment, cap UCLA, Berkeley non-residents
The UC system will not expand enrollment of California freshmen and transfer students in the fall unless more state revenues are appropriated and will cap enrollment of out-of-state students at UCLA and UC Berkeley, UC President Janet Napolitano said Tuesday. Napolitano told a legislative hearing in Sacramento that the nine undergraduate UC campuses are poised to send out their acceptance and rejection letters and cannot wait to decide enrollment targets until the Legislature and governor make their final budget decisions later in the spring. As a result, she said that campuses initially would accept the same numbers of Californians as last year, even though applications are up. However,...
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UC to freeze California enrollment, cap UCLA, Berkeley non-residents
The UC system will not expand enrollment of California freshmen and transfer students in the fall unless more state revenues are appropriated and will cap enrollment of out-of-state students at UCLA and UC Berkeley, UC President Janet Napolitano said...
California Legislature hits a lull
SACRAMENTO — It's quiet at the California Capitol.
While activity traditionally lags in the first few months of a legislative session, it's downright sleepy at the statehouse.------------FOR THE RECORD: Capitol scene: On the Monday Business page of...
Jerry Brown's popularity as governor doesn't extend to a presidential race
Katherine Martinez is a Democrat from San Andreas, fiercely supportive of her state's — and party's — governor.
"I have definitely followed him and definitely voted for him," she said of Jerry Brown, and she has pushed back on anyone who had...
California bill would reduce sales tax on green cars
The California Legislature is considering a bill that would cut the state sales tax on green cars by more than half in an effort to spur sales of clean vehicles.
The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), would reduce the sales tax...
Despite some nightmares, poll finds voters still California Dreamin'
It has beckoned for generations. To California came the Spanish missionaries, the Gold Rush buccaneers, the Dust Bowl refugees, émigrés from the East and the South and other lands, entrepreneurs and hippies and assembly line laborers and...
Jerry Brown must enforce California's environmental laws
To the editor: I am floored. Article after article in The Times and other news outlets in the state keep exposing ways that the oil industry is cutting corners and putting our health and our water — particularly in the Central Valley — at risk....
Voters strongly oppose UC tuition hike, poll finds
California voters overwhelmingly oppose a tuition increase at University of California campuses, even if that forces the colleges to cut spending or accept more out-of-state students who pay higher fees, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times...
Denial of parole for Mexican Mafia killer a relief to victim's family
Rene Enriquez's eloquence on the subject of the Mexican Mafia prison gang has impressed many. He wrote two books on the topic, prosecutors used him as an expert witness in gang trials, and numerous law enforcement officials turned to him for training...
Gov. Jerry Brown denies parole for ex-Mexican Mafia killer Rene 'Boxer' Enriquez
Gov. Jerry Brown rejected parole late Friday for a former Mexican Mafia killer who left the prison gang and has spent more than a decade cooperating with authorities and speaking at law enforcement conferences.
Brown acknowledged the valuable...
Tuition hike put on hold for UC summer school
Students planning to attend UC's upcoming summer school sessions got a much welcome reprieve Wednesday from tuition increases that could have been as large as 5%.
UC President Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday that the system would not implement any...
Polluter fees in California could boost state budget, analysts say
California could generate much more revenue from fees on polluters than Gov. Jerry Brown expects, legislative analysts say in a report released Thursday.
Administration officials have estimated $1.7 billion in revenue from the fees by June 30, 2016,...
Jerry Brown backs Obama on immigration order
Gov. Jerry Brown, who has made California a more welcoming place for immigrants who are in the country illegally, criticized on Tuesday a federal judge's decision to temporarily block President Obama's executive order reducing deportations.
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Advisors push Brown administration to estimate prison savings
Analysts for the state Legislature determined the state could save $20 million in private prison costs due to Proposition 47, the statewide ballot initiative voters approved in November that makes drug possession and minor theft charges misdemeanor...
On train, tunnel, Newsom would change course from Brown
In a Gavin Newsom governorship, California's current bullet train project probably would be derailed.
The delta twin tunnels, as presently envisioned, also likely would be buried.
Those are Gov. Jerry Brown's two big legacy-builders. But Brown will be...
Gavin Newsom is the first to enter 2018 race for governor
In an unusually early announcement of political intentions, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a fundraising committee Wednesday to run for governor in 2018.
The move, for a race that is well over three years away, will allow Newsom to raise as much as...
Californians make major water cuts in December, reach Gov. Brown's goal
For the first time in seven months of state monitoring, Californians surpassed Gov. Jerry Brown’s water-conservation goal, reducing water use by more than 20% in December 2014 compared to the same month the year before.
The 22.2% statewide...
Don't punish other districts for L.A. Unified's problems
It's very clear from readers that many don't equate iPads with infrastructure. Nor laptops with labs.
Schools, they logically believe, shouldn't be borrowing money — selling bonds — to buy tech gadgets already en route to obsolescence. Payment plans...
Gov. Jerry Brown weighs parole for killer in controversial LAPD lecture
Rene Enriquez boasts an impressive law enforcement resume.
Author. Expert witness. Government consultant. College lecturer.
But he achieved such respected standing because of his earlier life's work: Killer, drug dealer and Mexican Mafia "shot...
Brown and Kashkari teams let down guard on 2014 contest
With the election nearly three months behind them, top aides to Gov. Jerry Brown and his Republican challenger, Neel Kashkari, let down their guard Saturday at a postmortem organized by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies.
In a candid...
Neel Kashkari spent more than Jerry Brown on governor's race
Republican Neel Kashkari spent more than $7 million on his unsuccessful campaign last year to unseat Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, who spent less than $6 million on his run for reelection, financial reports show.
Kashkari’s latest spending report, filed...
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