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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. Lawmakers including scores of freshmen are still proposing plenty of bills — 2,297 as of Friday's deadline for new legislation. But the usually camera-hungry politicians are holding fewer news conferences to tout proposals such as protecting consumer privacy and banning chewing tobacco at baseball games. And Gov. Jerry Brown, who was handily reelected to a fourth and final term, is spending most of his time in his office working on the agenda he set in his state of the state speech in...
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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.
Lawmakers including scores of freshmen are still proposing plenty of bills...
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....
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'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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Lawmakers take step toward fulfilling state climate change goals
State lawmakers are preparing a sweeping package of bills that would fulfill several of Gov. Jerry Brown's climate change objectives by increasing California's reliance on renewable energy and alternative transportation fuels.
The proposals would also...
Tech firms back new bill requiring warrants for laptop, smartphone data
Tech firms including Facebook, Google, Mozilla and Twitter are supporting new legislation to protect Californians against warrantless government searches of their smartphones and laptops for private emails, text messages and GPS data.
State Sen. Mark...
Tom Steyer's green ambitions
Gov. Jerry Brown's inauguration speech this month was as green as the decor in the ornate Assembly chamber where he gave it. And it left Tom Steyer tickled pink. The philanthropist put millions into the 2014 elections, primarily through his NextGen...
'Suspicious' fire under investigation at governor's mansion
A “suspicious” fire broke out over the weekend near the governor’s mansion in Sacramento, but investigators are uncertain what sparked the blaze, fire officials said Monday.
About 1 p.m. Sunday, a state park ranger noticed the charred remains of a fire...
Brown should bend on school bonds
SACRAMENTO — Since when did the state government chipping in to help build classrooms for kids become a bad thing? Since Jerry Brown returned as governor, that's when.
Correct that: It's not a bad thing for most people in the state Capitol — only the...
The tangle behind the UC funding spat
It looks like a classic game of budget chicken: Gov. Jerry Brown tells the University of California not to raise tuition again. When the regents vote to do it anyway, the governor threatens to withhold $120 million from UC's funding for next year unless...
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