Survey: Part Time Officials Get Full-Time Perks
Hundreds of part-time elected officials in the San Francisco Bay area receive full-time health care benefits at taxpayer expense, according to a newspaper group's report.
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Hundreds of part-time elected officials in the San Francisco Bay area receive full-time health care benefits at taxpayer expense, according to a newspaper group's report.
Stepping away from Washington's contentious fiscal debates, President Barack Obama is making a West Coast trip aimed at building support for his deficit-reduction plans and raising money for his re-election campaign.
Gov. Jerry Brown's administration has negotiated a contract with a powerful prison guards' union that could prove costly to taxpayers because it lets guards bank unlimited vacation time that must be paid out when they retire.
A Southern California Republican Party official was under fire Saturday after allegations she sent an email that included an altered photo depicting President Barack Obama as an ape.
Education officials are warning lawmakers that a shorter school year, larger class sizes and teacher layoffs are ahead if the Legislature resorts to an all-cuts budget to close a deficit that once stood at nearly $27 billion.
A state panel has slashed the amount of money California taxpayers will spend to keep legislators on the road.
The state Senate has approved legislation that would require California's public schools to include gay history in social studies lessons.
California's major law enforcement organizations and the sheriff of its most populous county rallied Wednesday behind Gov. Jerry Brown's call for extending tax increases to pay for a new law that shifts responsibility for thousands of criminals from the state to local governments.
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has filed to intervene in a lawsuit that alleges Sutter Health hospitals engaged in false billing practices for anesthesia services.
Today marks Governor Jerry Brown's 100th day in office, but Republicans and Democrats are still divided over how to solve California's remaining $15 billion deficit.
The state Assembly approved legislation Monday to bump the 2012 presidential primary in California to June, saving the state nearly $100 million in election costs.
Gov. Jerry Brown asked groups representing crime victims and state prison guards on Monday to help him lobby Republican lawmakers on his proposal to close a budget deficit that once stood at nearly $27 billion.
California was a pioneer in prohibiting tobacco use in the workplace during the 1990s, but the ban left loopholes that a state lawmaker now wants to close.
On Friday, he stopped at an elementary school in Riverside to make his pitch that voters should decide whether to support a renewal of recent tax hikes.
Gov. Jerry Brown is preparing to take his budget appeal directly to California voters with two days of events in what he says will be the start of a statewide tour to sell his plan for maintaining a series of temporary tax hikes.
