Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown have begun their fight in earnest. The combatants are predictable, and the strategies well-worn - perhaps even more so than in previous races, given who
Unbelievably, California is not only facing a $20 billion deficit for the 2010-2011 budget, the state Employment Development Department just forecasted a $20 billion deficit in the Unemployment Insurance
Senator Lieberman is pushing a bill which would give the president the power to shut down all internet traffic in the event of a potential cyber-attack. Besides this proverbial
Despite the monetary promise of increased state and local revenues, and lowered costs for an already strained justice system, the Tax Cannabis Act still has some Californians worried.
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This is how leading trends forecaster Gerald Celente succinctly summarizes the current state of affairs in the United States. Celente, a self-proclaimed "political atheist" who is often
While California faces a harrowing budget crisis, one State senator is set to see that California is the first state to boycott Arizona over its strict immigration law. In a
With the economy still stagnant and job growth the first priority of most Americans, and with Californians some of the hardest hit in both the private and public sector, bad
As part of budget deliberations, Senate Democrats propose shifting greater responsibility for several state social programs, including welfare, to counties. The added costs to counties -- $4.3 billion within four
Both sides are claiming victory following a landmark Supreme Court ruling – the first high court decision concerning genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
The fact that most mainstream media outlets are advertising
The ongoing train wreck that is the California budget negotiations continues unabated. Legislators failed to pass a budget by the constitutional deadline of June 15, leaving the state without a
Ideological polarization has created an environment in which Democrats and Republicans are virtually incapable of coming to any sort of agreement. However, they almost never disagree when it comes to
As the Great Recession drags on, voters continue to view the origin of the economic crisis in stark, partisan terms. In a recent Rasmussen Reports poll, 47% of likely voters