By Susan Ferriss -
Published: 12:00 am
An anti-tax recall movement against Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Hesperia, has failed to gather enough valid signatures to go to the ballot, the California secretary of state's office announced Friday.
Published: 12:00 am
As California's legislators stare at a forced 18 percent pay cut next month, one legislator who volunteered for a 5 percent reduction last July rescinded her decision.
Published: Friday, November 20 2009 - 12:00 am
Governor Current: $212,179 / Effective Dec. 7: $173,987
By Jim Sanders -
Published: Friday, November 20 2009 - 12:00 am
Pay for California's top elected officials will be slashed by 18 percent next month, one year earlier than expected, to abide by an opinion issued Thursday from Attorney General Jerry Brown.
By Dale Kasler -
Updated: 6:38 am
CalPERS' chief financial officer delivered a pep talk of sorts Thursday on the pension fund's portfolio, disputing consultants who've cast doubt on its ability to recoup its losses.
Published: Friday, November 20 2009 - 12:00 am
Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina must be sharing speechwriters, maybe someone from their tech pasts.
By Dan Walters -
Published: Friday, November 20 2009 - 12:00 am
When Mac Taylor, the Legislature's chief budget adviser, declared this week that the state budget enacted just four months ago is already billions of dollars upside down, no one in the Capitol should have been surprised.
By Denny Walsh -
Published: Friday, November 20 2009 - 12:00 am
Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Thursday ordered the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to quit interfering with health care benefits for federal judicial employees just because they are married to a person of the same sex.
By Kevin Yamamura -
Published: Thursday, November 19 2009 - 12:00 am
California once again will look under sofa cushions and scour every sector of state government to find another $20.7 billion to balance its budget over the next 19 months.
By Jon Ortiz -
Updated: Thursday, November 19 2009 - 8:09 am
More grim news for state workers: California's general fund faces a $21 billion deficit through the middle of 2011. The red ink could flow for years, according to a forecast by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.
By Dale Kasler -
Published: Thursday, November 19 2009 - 12:00 am
CalPERS' president, promising to clean up an influence-peddling scandal at the big pension fund, raised the prospect Wednesday of publicly reprimanding board members and employees who violate ethical standards.
By Dan Smith -
Published: Wednesday, November 18 2009 - 12:00 am
Despite revenue projections that are holding relatively firm, California faces a $21 billion state budget shortfall over the next year and half, according to sources who have been briefed on a projection from the Legislature's budget analyst.
By Susan Ferriss -
Updated: Wednesday, November 18 2009 - 6:36 am
Sylvia Zedlar's left leg was nearly severed when a car struck her in south Sacramento County in 2002. Now, because of state budget cuts, she is among about 9,000 frail and mostly elderly Californians who must pay, on average, $200 to $250 more each month for care.
By Dan Walters -
Published: Wednesday, November 18 2009 - 12:00 am
When California's political consultants share war stories, 1988's immensely expensive, multifront battle between insurance companies and lawyer-backed consumer groups takes center stage.
By Jon Ortiz -
Updated: Tuesday, November 17 2009 - 7:58 am
Lawyers representing unions and a few government agencies pounded away at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's furlough policy for nearly five hours in Alameda Superior Court on Monday.
By Dale Kasler -
Published: Tuesday, November 17 2009 - 12:00 am
CalPERS, responding to growing concerns about influence peddling, Monday tweaked its policy on disclosure of fees paid to placement agents.
By Dan Walters -
Published: Sunday, November 15 2009 - 12:00 am
As America's trade with the Far East principally China expanded massively during the 1980s and 1990s, California reaped the benefits as the gateway for both exports and imports.
By Matt Weiser -
Published: Sunday, November 15 2009 - 12:00 am
The momentous reform of California's water system signed into law last week is largely toothless where it matters most: Action to reverse the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta's environmental decline.
By Brad Branan -
Published: Saturday, November 14 2009 - 12:00 am
A competing union has accused the Service Employees International Union of changing ballots and threatening to report workers to immigration officials in a contentious battle to represent more than 10,000 home health care workers in Fresno County.
By Jim Sanders -
Published: Friday, November 13 2009 - 12:00 am
Race to the Top, the nation's largest competition for school grants, quieted some critics by adding flexibility to final rules released by the Obama administration this week but the fighting is far from over in California.
By Denny Walsh -
Published: Friday, November 13 2009 - 12:00 am
California Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate announced late Thursday that the state has a plan to reduce the prison population that will satisfy a judicial panel of judges, but the three federal judges have to be willing to issue orders the state sees as illegal.
By Dan Walters -
Published: Friday, November 13 2009 - 12:00 am
Advocates of overhauling California's troubled pension system for public employees couldn't have chosen a more providential moment to launch their reform campaign.
By Kevin Yamamura -
Published: Thursday, November 12 2009 - 12:00 am
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will travel to Iraq early next week to visit U.S. troops for the first time as governor.
By Dale Kasler -
Updated: Thursday, November 12 2009 - 9:01 am
Using blunt language to address a growing scandal, CalPERS' president Wednesday urged his board to support legislation designed to curb the role of placement agents marketing representatives who seek investment dollars from CalPERS and other public pension funds.
By Andrew McIntosh -
Updated: Thursday, November 12 2009 - 9:51 am
A California bank that received $298.7 million in federal bank bailout money last year has been seized and closed by state regulators.
By Michael Doyle -
Published: Wednesday, November 11 2009 - 12:00 am
WASHINGTON Some of the nation's most esteemed scientists will review recent environmental decisions curtailing California irrigation water deliveries, officials affirmed Tuesday.
By Jack Chang -
Updated: Tuesday, November 17 2009 - 8:16 am
Attorney General Jerry Brown's office has sparked debate about its interpretation of state privacy laws after it determined that a spokesman had not done anything illegal by secretly taping conversations with news reporters.
By Dale Kasler -
Updated: Wednesday, November 11 2009 - 6:02 am
In his long and controversial career pitching investment deals to CalPERS, former board member Alfred J. Villalobos repeatedly has spun gold from a web of important business associates.
By Diana Lambert -
Updated: Wednesday, November 11 2009 - 8:23 am
California now has a California State Advisory Council on Early Childhood Education and a better chance at a share of $100 million in Head Start stimulus funds.
By Bobby Caina Calvan -
Updated: Wednesday, November 11 2009 - 8:25 am
The decades-long battle over abortion has emerged as a mini-drama in the larger debate on a health care overhaul, and Central Valley lawmakers are divided.
By Suan Ferriss -
Published: Tuesday, November 10 2009 - 12:00 am
In California, the word "sanctuary" prompts talk of Edwin Ramos, a 22-year-old Salvadoran accused of a brutal triple murder last year.