Brown Releases Plan For Calif. Pension Changes
Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing changes to California's public pension system, just days after budget talks broke down in part amid disagreements over pension reforms.
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Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing changes to California's public pension system, just days after budget talks broke down in part amid disagreements over pension reforms.
With budget talks over a special election on taxes all but dead, Democratic lawmakers are preparing to illustrate the effects of an all-cuts budget to address the rest of California's $26.6 billion deficit.
Gov. Jerry Brown says he has told his labor union allies they should be open to concessions that Republican lawmakers want on public employee pensions in exchange for GOP votes on the budget.
Governor Jerry Brown say time is running out for a budget deal at the Capitol. He's looking for ways to help balance the budget before the June 15th constitutional deadline.
All state employee unions now have contracts or tentative agreements after the last three bargaining groups reached deals with the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown.
Indicating they have gone as far as they can for now, California lawmakers on Thursday took a break from budget votes after tackling about half of the state's $26.6 billion shortfall through cuts, loans and transfers.
Key lawmakers are staying close to the Capitol this weekend as Gov. Jerry Brown tries to work out a compromise on the state budget.
The investors who won the contract to buy 24 state office buildings have sued the state.
Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in four California counties struck by tsunami waves generated by the massive earthquake that hit Japan.
Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday he does not have enough Republican votes to pass his plan to address California's $26.6 billion budget deficit, just days before the deadline he set for the state Legislature to call a special election and place a tax measure before voters in June.
CBS 13 has learned of a potential budget deal in the works at the Capitol – a deal that's likely to include pension reform.
Financial disclosure forms show Gov. Jerry Brown and his wife, former Gap Inc. executive Anne Gust Brown, have real estate and stock holdings potentially worth millions of dollars.
Governor Jerry Brown was surprised to learn that California owns part of a golf course in the Oakland hills. Selling the state's share of the property could generate up to $1.5 million for the state, according to a report on California's high value urban properties from 2004.
Your California state government has been spending millions of dollars on trinkets like key chains, pens and sticky note pads. Tonight Governor Jerry Brown is ordering it to stop.
The Governor's Executive Order means immediate savings for taxpayers. In a one on one interview with On The Money's Mike Luery, Governor Brown said that with California $25 billion in the red, the state simply cannot afford to purchase new cars.
Gov. Jerry Brown promised plenty of pain in his budget plan for California.
A state appeals court has granted Gov. Jerry Brown an extra month to review the state's sale of office buildings.
Governor Jerry Brown is cutting state government funding to save money – and in just his first week on the job, has already realized more than $7million in savings.
Democrat Jerry Brown was sworn in Monday as California's 39th governor, returning to the office he left 28 years ago but inheriting a much different and more troubled state than the one he led then.
Jerry Brown, the enigmatic former governor who always seemed to be eyeing his next political post, returns to the state capital this week to lead a much different California than the one he oversaw 28 years ago.
Gov.-elect Jerry Brown is keeping quiet about his plans to tackle a $28 billion budget deficit, despite reports that he plans to couple deep spending cuts with a special election next year to extend temporary tax increases.
Jerry Brown will take over the reins as California's governor next week, and details are beginning to emerge on his low-key inauguration celebration.
Gov.-elect Jerry Brown will be sworn in next month at the same place Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took the oath of office four years ago.
