S&P: California Comeback Due To Less Spending, Not Tax Gains
A new financial report says California's comeback due mostly to the state's spending reductions rather than recent tax gains.
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A new financial report says California's comeback due mostly to the state's spending reductions rather than recent tax gains.
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.
After tackling pension changes for public employees and teachers, Gov. Jerry Brown is now setting his sights on another big debt: retiree health care benefits.
The state exchange is ramping up advertising and marketing efforts in the final month of open enrollment for health insurance to minimize the number of Californians who will face tax penalties for remaining uninsured.
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday released a record $113 billion state spending plan that asks the University of California to do more with less so the nation's largest public university system can avert tuition hikes.
California Gov. Jerry Brown plans to unveil a record $113 billion state spending plan on Friday that gives schools a boost and pays debt but sets up a higher-education showdown by rejecting the University of California's demand for more money to avert tuition hikes, a government official said.
Anticipating a surplus, Democratic state lawmakers are pressuring Gov. Jerry Brown to increasing spending to assist those who have been missing out on the economic recovery.
After winning re-election in a landslide, Gov. Jerry Brown will start his unprecedented fourth and final term with a flourish by promoting a legacy of fiscal stability while pioneering a bullet train to accommodate future generations of Californians seeking clean transportation.
The pardons issued Wednesday included a Stanislaus County man sentenced to three years' probation in 1986 for taking expensive wine out of a wine cellar and drinking it. Michael Joseph Moradian Jr. has since "lived an honest and upright life, exhibited good moral character, and conducted himself as a law-abiding citizen," Brown wrote in his pardon.
Brown said in a statement that the president "stepped up for hard-working families across America" in the face of Washington gridlock.
University of California regents have voted to raise tuition. The move means tuition rise as much as 5 percent each of the next five years.
California Gov. Jerry Brown is returning to Sacramento for a record fourth term.
Neel Kashkari, a first-time candidate for office, was hoping to spark a conversation with California voters this year about growing inequality in the state's rebounding economy, whether the state is economically competitive, and how to reform its underperforming K-12 school system.
Gov. Jerry Brown is scheduled to meet with the state's largest nurses union to discuss Ebola preparedness at hospitals and other health facilities.
Jerry Brown is on the verge of doing what no one has ever done in California and what no one may ever do again: get elected to a fourth term as governor.
The ad features a child fighting for his life that's eventually saved by Kashkari. The ad is supposed to be a metaphor for the state of education in California.
Ballots are in the mail for vote-by-mail voters, but it's not too late to register to vote in this year's election.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed and vetoed a series of bills on the final day of considering the legislation passed in the prior legislative session .
Brown vetoed a bill that would have banned elected officials from requesting payments on their behalf to nonprofit organizations run by family members. He also rejected a bill seeking to ban tickets and reduce the value of other gifts that can be given to legislators.
It's the first legislation in the country that requires people to verbally agree to a sexual encounter. It involves "an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement" before students have sex. It's aimed at protecting students who are drunk, drugged, unconscious or asleep and cannot grant consent.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that makes California the first in the nation to define when "yes means yes" and adopt requirements for colleges to follow when investigating sexual assault reports.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed into law seven new bills intended to thwart human trafficking.
Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation that would have given the University of California and California State University systems a $100 million financial boost.
Gov. Jerry Brown says he has signed into law a bill to help fund lawyers for unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings.
On Feb. 5, 1976 Maryann Jacobs said goodbye to her three children before school, but never picked them up. A neighbor discovered the 37-year-old's body inside her home, brutally raped, tortured and killed.
