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California Democrats are solidifying their support for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presumed presidential bid next year, while California Republicans have no clear front-runner, according to a poll released Thursday.
Just weeks after being sworn in for an unprecedented fourth term, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced his resignation following allegations his fiancée used their relationship to win contracts for her consulting business and failed to report income on her taxes.
The speakers attending the celebration kept their focus on the birthday party and not the stunning events that unfolded on Friday, first with Kitzhaber's emotional declaration that he will step down on Wednesday followed by news of a federal subpoena served on the state Department of Administrative Services.
But tucked away in a small percentage of those 332,999 messages were the names, birthdates and Social Security numbers - the three pieces of information key to identity theft - of more than 12,000 people.
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who gained national attention as mayor of San Francisco for ordering then-illegal gay marriage licenses to be issued, said Wednesday that he will begin raising money to run for governor in 2018, a position he has long sought.
California lawmakers are looking at new ways to pay for crumbling roads, bridges and highways as the traditional repair fund from gasoline taxes dries up.
In the 1970s, the environmental movement had no bigger political hero than California Gov. Jerry Brown. He cracked down on polluters, ended tax breaks for oil companies and promoted solar energy.
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will not run for president in 2016.
A new financial report says California's comeback due mostly to the state's spending reductions rather than recent tax gains.
The stunning sum from Freedom Partners would dwarf expected spending from official GOP committees and many of the hopefuls expected to seek the party's presidential nomination in 2016. The $889 million budget is almost twice what 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney spent from his campaign accounts.
Gov. Jerry Brown orchestrated the successful push for temporary sales and income taxes on Californians three years ago to help ease the state out of recession and close a multibillion-dollar budget gap.
California's unemployment rate fell to 7 percent in December, a drop of two-tenths of a percentage point from a month earlier, but the state added few jobs last month.
Lawyers are seeking to further delay the public corruption trial of former state Sen. Ron Calderon and his brother until August.
Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer says he will not enter the race to succeed California Sen. Barbara Boxer.
