Oakland Faces Sweeping Cuts Due To Massive Budget Deficit
It was revealed that sizeable across-the-board cuts in city departments were expected, as Oakland grapples with a projected $46 million deficit.
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It was revealed that sizeable across-the-board cuts in city departments were expected, as Oakland grapples with a projected $46 million deficit.
Gov. Jerry Brown is asking groups representing crime victims and state prison guards to help him lobby Republican lawmakers on his proposal.
A bill to bump next year's presidential primary in California from February to June and save the state about $100 million in election costs has passed the state Assembly.
Adult care health services in California that assist the "medically-fragile," are expected to shutdown by July 1st if a funding bill isn't approved in Sacramento. Some seniors were in the Alameda County Board chamber in Oakland Monday, pleading for something to be done.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Monday blocked four key provisions of Arizona's controversial immigration law.
The proposed parcel tax increases range from $49 annually in Los Gatos to $193 in Los Altos.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is making it clear - she wants technology firms to consider abandoning San Francisco in favor of Oakland.
California lawmakers are looking to expand the state's workplace smoking ban, adding hotel lobbies, break rooms and even tobacco stores to the list of places where you can't light up.
Gov. Jerry Brown kept up his push for a special election on the state budget Saturday in a quick tour through the territory of Republican lawmakers, who have repeatedly rebuffed him on the method he has chosen to close California's remaining $15.4 billion budget deficit.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said city workers will be the hardest hit if his pension reform plan is approved.
State Senator Darrell Steinberg said the legislature is fully behind affordable housing, even with the state's ongoing budget problems.
State legislators held the first of several planned hearings on Thursday to discuss the impacts of an all-cuts state budget.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said Thursday that she has tried to "raise the profile of the city" in her first three months in office.
The former housekeeper of billionaire California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman was honored at an immigrant rights gala in Los Angeles.
California Representatives on both sides of the aisle acknowledge that a federal government shutdown will have an impact on state residents, though they continue to argue about the budget, preventing its passage.
