California lawmakers reach compromise on budget -- The proposed state spending plan involves no new taxes. Votes on the plan are scheduled for Monday. Legislative leaders announced Sunday that they had reached an agreement.
Editorial: Mileage-based premiums -- Here's a sensible idea: Your auto insurance premium is based on how much you drive. In a better world, insurance companies would be free to offer such products to satisfy customers, but in the regulated insurance world in California, such proposals need government vetting.
California is too tough to run, analysts say-- The state controller says California's payroll computer program is so antiquated it would take six months to reconfigure it to change workers' pay.
Political winds buffet California ballot measures on energy-- Two of the world's richest men bankroll alternative-energy initiatives on the November ballot. Each is opposed by some of the very champions of those alternatives.
The Buzz: Prop. 8 could create quagmire, Feinstein says-- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who called San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's brief legalization of gay marriage in 2004 'too much, too fast, too soon,' has announced her position on Proposition 8: She's opposed. Feinstein said the measure to ban gay ...
Dan Walters: As booze bills show, nothing really changes-- No legislative session would be complete without at least one bill granting an exemption to the state's quaintly named 'tied-house law' on liquor sales. This year is no exception, once again illustrating the fundamentally unchanging nature of ...
Editorial: Beware a budget made in the dark-- All of a sudden, lawmakers are in a rush. They've had 11 weeks to pass a budget. Now they are preparing to slam one through as soon as this evening.
Surprise twist in casino rules-- When representatives of about 50 Indian tribes gathered with state regulators recently, everyone in the room knew that nearly all of the tribes were about to vote against a set of casino security standards sought by the state.
Editorial: Mileage-based premiums -- Here's a sensible idea: Your auto insurance premium is based on how much you drive. In a better world, insurance companies would be free to offer such products to satisfy customers, but in the regulated insurance world in California, such proposals need government vetting.
California is too tough to run, analysts say-- The state controller says California's payroll computer program is so antiquated it would take six months to reconfigure it to change workers' pay.
Political winds buffet California ballot measures on energy-- Two of the world's richest men bankroll alternative-energy initiatives on the November ballot. Each is opposed by some of the very champions of those alternatives.
The Buzz: Prop. 8 could create quagmire, Feinstein says-- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who called San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's brief legalization of gay marriage in 2004 'too much, too fast, too soon,' has announced her position on Proposition 8: She's opposed. Feinstein said the measure to ban gay ...
Dan Walters: As booze bills show, nothing really changes-- No legislative session would be complete without at least one bill granting an exemption to the state's quaintly named 'tied-house law' on liquor sales. This year is no exception, once again illustrating the fundamentally unchanging nature of ...
Editorial: Beware a budget made in the dark-- All of a sudden, lawmakers are in a rush. They've had 11 weeks to pass a budget. Now they are preparing to slam one through as soon as this evening.
Surprise twist in casino rules-- When representatives of about 50 Indian tribes gathered with state regulators recently, everyone in the room knew that nearly all of the tribes were about to vote against a set of casino security standards sought by the state.
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