California's beleaguered state budget can't depend on the uncertain revenue from the state's cap-and-trade program to help balance the books -- as Gov. Brown wants. Cap-and-trade is the marketplace process by which emitters of greenhouse gases can buy,... »
“Justice Epstein and Tom Girardi are standouts among their peers and have helped advance the legal profession in myriad ways both in the courtroom and in the classroom,” says BHBA President Lawrence H. Jacobson. Adds Jonathan Stein, chair of the BHBA L... »
Activists are rallying in four cities Tuesday to protest billions of dollars in Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed cuts to health and social services. Faced with a $9.2-billion budget gap, Brown has proposed slashing about $2 billion from health and human... »
Gov. Jerry Brown's campaign to raise taxes has raised more than $1.2 million in two weeks, according to the campaign's first financial filing with the California secretary of state's office. The sum was raised from just nine donations, the largest of w... »
A county in the heart of California, the area seen as ground zero of the proposed $99 billion bullet train, has sued in court to block the high-speed rail project. Kings County, in effect, says the bullet-train costs too much. From Mike Rosenberg in t... »
Capitol Alert The latest on California politics and government April 25, 2012 California voters are inclined to support Gov. Jerry Brown’s sales and income tax increase, but by a less than overwhelming margin, a new poll by the Public Policy Institute ... »
