Poll: Boxer Opens Leads Over Fiorina
A new Field Poll confirms what two other surveys said earlier this week -- Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer has opened up a lead over Republican Carly Fiorina.
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A new Field Poll confirms what two other surveys said earlier this week -- Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer has opened up a lead over Republican Carly Fiorina.
Last month Caltrans froze three billion dollars in upcoming transportation projects from freeway expansions to bike lanes when there was no state budget agreement. Now another month has passed and almost a billion more is on hold, according to Caltrans spokesman Matt Rocco.
Nine Oakland mayoral candidates generally agreed Thursday night that the city's next leader needs to fight crime, create more jobs and find a way to balance the city's budget.
After suggesting the end could be near, aides to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature's top leaders say they will resume work next week on trying to end California's record-long budget impasse.
The Detroit mayor's office on Thursday sharply criticized California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman for comparing Fresno to Detroit and calling it "awful."
The one-time police chief in the corruption-plagued city of Bell declared himself disabled when he took the job last year in a move that could someday earn him a tax-free state pension worth millions of dollars, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
California GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has two fundraisers planned in the nation's capital, including one sponsored in part by a company seeking to undermine California's global warming law.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman on Thursday came out against a ballot initiative that would indefinitely delay California's landmark global warming law, saying she supports a more limited suspension.
Republican Meg Whitman has already shattered the national record for spending the most personal money on a political campaign at $119 million and counting. What it's bought her is a tie.
Democrat Jerry Brown, running for California governor, and Democrat Barbara Boxer, seeking re-election as one of California's two U.S. senators, have finished ahead of their Republican opponents for the first time in 2 months of CBS 5 KPIX-TV tracking polls, according to the latest poll data released Wednesday.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman described Fresno as a lot like the economically depressed city of Detroit when discussing what the recession has done to one of California's largest cities.
Opponents of a controversial San Francisco budget reform measure that would raise city employee health care and pension contributions got the support Wednesday of another public official, state Sen. Leland Yee.
