Calif. Fees On Vehicles, Rural Homes May Be Challenged
Every Californian with a vehicle will pay $12 more a year to register it, and millions of property owners who live outside cities will pay $150 annually for state fire protection.
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Every Californian with a vehicle will pay $12 more a year to register it, and millions of property owners who live outside cities will pay $150 annually for state fire protection.
The Legislature late Tuesday sent a nearly $86 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that begins Friday to Gov. Jerry Brown.
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.
California Gov. Jerry Brown is still determined to give voters a chance to decide whether to extend tax increases to balance the state's budget.
Few tears are being shed for California lawmakers as the man who cuts the state's paychecks decided that the Legislature will not be paid their salaries until they balance the state's annual spending plan.
With 10 days left before California starts a new fiscal year, Democratic and Republican lawmakers are looking to Gov. Jerry Brown for his next move. What that is, he's not saying.
With lawmakers united only in their anger at Gov. Jerry Brown, the coming days and weeks won't be pretty, experts predict.
Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed the Democratic budget plan approved Wednesday in the Legislature, restarting talks over how to close California's $9.6 billion deficit.
Democrats who control California's Legislature began passing a series of budget bills Wednesday without Republican votes.
Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday were preparing two budgets — one with an extension of expiring tax increases and one without — as a Wednesday legislative deadline loomed.
Gov. Jerry Brown called on the Legislature Monday to rise above partisan differences and resist pressure from talk shows, bloggers and anti-tax advocates to pass a California budget.
Reticent no longer, the Democratic Party hierarchy demanded on Saturday that Rep. Anthony Weiner for sending online material ranging from sexually suggestive to explicit to several women.
A state Senate committee has killed a bill that would have prohibited lawmakers from receiving free spa treatments, sports tickets and rounds of golf.
President Barack Obama plans to raise money for Democrats during a two-day swing through California in the coming weeks.
Serious budget negotiations are expected to begin in the weeks ahead as budget committees of the two legislative houses adopted their own versions of California's spending plan Friday.
California's Democratic Congressional representatives sounded off Thursday about how budget cuts proposed by House Republicans would impact the Golden State.
Democratic lawmakers are showing just how widespread budget cuts will be in California if the Legislature or voters do not extend temporary tax hikes to help close a $26.6 billion deficit.
In an exclusive interview with KCBS, Governor Jerry Brown is rejecting a new idea being floated by some GOP legislators: let California voters consider tax cuts, as well as tax increase extensions.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday named his top cabinet members in key employment and environmental departments and appointed seven members to the state Board of Education.
Republican Steve Cooley is conceding the California attorney general's race to Kamala Harris, giving Democrats a sweep of all statewide offices.
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives have set their sights on California's High Speed Rail project, pressing forward with a plan to strip $2 billion in funding for the transit plan.
In a fresh sign of turmoil among defeated Democrats, a growing number of the rank and file say they won't support House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically symbolic roll call when the new Congress meets in January.
This week's midterm elections changed the political landscape in parts of the country. Randy Coleman of San Rafael asked this Good Question: How did states become red for Republicans and blue for Democrats?
The results of Tuesday's election still haven't been certified, and Governor-elect Jerry Brown and the state Senate minority leader have already started the discussion on how to help small businesses and spur job creation in the private sector.
Democrats retained control of both legislative chambers and won a major victory in this week's elections when voters approved Proposition 25, lowering the threshold to pass a state budget from a two-thirds vote to a simple majority.
