San Francisco Supervisors Want To Restore Police Academy Classes
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is looking at restoring police academy classes to help with an expected shortage of officers in the coming years.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is looking at restoring police academy classes to help with an expected shortage of officers in the coming years.
Democrats hoping to regain the majority in the House in 2012 might get a strong head start in California, where voters have handed the authority for drawing political boundaries to an independent citizens' commission.
Gov. Jerry Brown has abandoned his plan for a special election this year to ask voters to extend temporary tax hikes as a way to help close California's budget deficit.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has twice delayed a vote on the company's plan, and after the second continuance last month, AT&T said it will propose a scaled-back version of the proposal.
State Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland, is introducing legislation Monday that would replace the death penalty in California with permanent imprisonment.
Ten-term Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey announced Monday afternoon she is retiring at the end of her current term.
Mudslinging isn't all that uncommon in politics, but what about name-calling? That's the latest development in California's budget stalemate.
A political campaign in San Francisco is picking up steam, but without an actual candidate to campaign for.
State Senator Mark Leno said he remains optimistic that legislators will come to an agreement over the state budget this week.
San Francisco's new budget proposes replacing sworn police and sheriff's deputies with private security guards at San Francisco General Hospital.
State Senator Loni Hancock is looking to end the death penalty in California, but victim's families are irate over the proposed legislation.
After nearly 45 people addressed the San Jose City Council on Friday to voice opposition to the mayor's emergency declaration, council members went into a closed session to determine the proposal's fate.
The public packed a San Francisco Board of Supervisors' meeting Friday to plead for an end to budget cuts on human services and the arts.
A majority of city workers' unions have actually signed off on Lee's reform package but they do not represent retired workers, who complained to the supervisors at the hearing that they were left out of the process.
The protestors pitched their tents and sleeping bags on the ramp leading up to the City Hall rotunda and slept there, though one woman acknowledged she got just two hours of sleep, and 'fessed up to being cold, too.
