Arnold Schwarzenegger has stayed mostly out of the political ring in California since packing his boxes and moving out of the state Capitol 16 months ago.
But he threw a punch over the weekend at his fellow California Republicans -- and the...
SACRAMENTO - In communities of color across California, churches have played a big role in gathering signatures for an initiative to change the state's 1994 Three-Strikes law.
Governor Jerry Brown has never been one to hold back saying what he thinks, and in a Friday morning radio interview, told legislators to get going on the tough proposals he's offered to help balance the state budget.
"The Legislature has to man up, make the cuts," Brown said in an...more interview on KGO Radio in San Francisco.
The Q&A with host Ronn Owens touched on everything from Brown's November tax increase initiative to Indian gaming, presidential politics, and beyond. And the quip about legislative action - buzzworthy as it will no doubt be - seems to offer perhaps the first real sign of frustration from the governor about the pace of budget action this year under the state Capitol dome.
Brown's January budget proposal, while well digested in dozens of legislative budget committee hearings since then, nonetheless was met with a collective bleh. The spending plan relied on several cuts being enacted by March 1, most notably a $1 billion reduction in
SACRAMENTO - The California Fair Political Practices Commission has approved a $30,000 fine against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to settle a nearly 3-year-old complaint by the campaign finance watchdog agency.
SUN VALLEY - The 18-year-old son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver says he has been treated for injuries after getting in "a little ski accident" in Idaho.
SACRAMENTO - Some shelter animals are anxiously waiting for new homes, others need their owners to re-claim them, but they only have they have six days.
SACRAMENTO - California's recently formed Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education has significant weaknesses in its oversight of for-profit colleges, advocacy groups told lawmakers at a hearing this week.
SACRAMENTO - Crime Victims Action Alliance is calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to release more detailed information on the convicted killers whose release he declined to stop last year.
Bolstered by a recent court ruling, a Southern California assemblyman filed legislation last week that seeks to crack down on school districts that charge parents and students fees that violate state law.
MONTEBELLO - With no end in sight for California's budget problems, supporters of scaling back the nation's toughest Three-Strikes law are seizing the moment.