Capitol Alert: Why the Capitol is quiet this - Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders plan to resume budget talks Thursday, the first time all five will be in Sacramento this week.
Capitol Alert: Teachers launch radio ads -Trying to tighten pressure on lawmakers, the California Teachers Association launched a statewide radio advertising campaign Tuesday urging state officials to pass a budget that doesn't hurt schools.
Capitol Alert: Bass looks back - and forward -Assembly Speaker Karen Bass wrote this piece on the inaugural for the Hufftington Post:
Capitol Alert: AM Alert: Governor Lockyer? -Shane GoldmacherNo, the 30-year veteran of California politics, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, isn't tossing his hat into the ring in 2010 (that we know of).
Dan Walters: Obama's win doesn't mean windfall for California -When George W. Bush began running for president eight-plus years ago, he lavished attention on California, a state his father had won in 1988 but lost in 1992 as Bill Clinton captured the White House.
Feinstein plays key role - Sen. Dianne Feinstein spent much of the past year consumed with details of the presidential inauguration: 240,000 tickets, 22,000 sheets of plywood for the platform, 5,000 portable toilets, 4,000 members of the news media who applied for credentials and more than 24 jumbo TV screens.
Ruben Navarrette: In search of a better life -California is famous for its whine. Take it from someone who was born in the Golden State and who has lived here most of his life, but who also spent long stretches elsewhere. Part of living in California is feeling the need to complain about how hard it is to live in California. Many have called it quits and left the state.
Official wants 7,000 inmates moved -Up to 7,000 sick California inmates must be transferred to prisons with access to better medical care, a court-appointed receiver said in a court filing Tuesday.
No Budget: Day 77 -It's been 77 days since the governor called the first special session of the Legislature to address the state's projected $42 billion budget shortfall.
Hope in D.C., fear in CA- State leaders should embrace Obama's message. In Sacramento on Tuesday, negotiations over how to avert the fiscal and human calamity that will arrive Feb. 1 were put on hold because three of the principal budget negotiators — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass — were all in Washington, D.C., to attend President Barack Obama's inaugural.
Funding freeze halts environmental projects across California -Commissions and nonprofits charged with conserving parks, wildlife, water and mountain areas of the state are at risk of laying off staff or closing since the state stopped funding last month.By Jordan Rau Reporting from Sacramento -- If swimmers in Santa Monica Bay bump into trash or bacteria this summer, one culprit will be California's budget impasse.
Health Net executive joins board of CalPERS -Patricia Clarey, also a former chief of staff to Schwarzenegger, says she won't be involved in benefits decisions.By Marc Lifsher Reporting from Sacramento -- Patricia Clarey, a top healthcare company executive and former chief of staff to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been appointed to the board of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the country's largest government pension fund.
Fix probation to fix prisons -More resources for probation services in California would prevent many offenders from becoming prisoners.By Don Meyer California's corrections system is in a state of disarray and is in dire need of reform. As The Times described in a Jan. 5 editorial, the state is awaiting a decision from a panel of federal judges that will decide whether to release more than 50,000 criminals into our communities to ease prison overcrowding. Evidently, California is failing to rehabilitate criminals and adding to a cyclical problem facing our prison system that returns more than 70% of released convicts back to state prison.
Schwarzenegger fills high-paying jobs amid budget- In the midst of a $40 billion budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed former Democratic Assemblywoman Nicole Parra to a newly created $128,124-a-year job and named former Republican Assemblyman Greg Aghazarian to a board slot with a similar salary, his office announced Tuesday.
Prop. 8 foes push new ballot measures to reverse gay marriage ban-Angered by the passage of Proposition 8, grass-roots activists are working to place measures on the ballot to reverse California's ban on same-sex unions.
Golden State sends some star power -A high-profile California contingent gathers Tuesday at the inaugural stage at the Capitol.
The BuzzCall it the Doomsday scenario, but a Livermore man has submitted a proposed initiative that would terminate the terms of the entire Legislature and governor if the state budget bill is not passed by June 15 each year. The measure raises some questions, such as how could the state could survive with no Legislature until a special election could be called (presumably by the lieutenant governor). Hmmmmmmm.
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