CALIFORNIA POLITICS
Governor Newsom’s First Budget Proposal
Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his 2019-2020 budget proposal yesterday. The $209 billion ($8 billion more than Governor Brown’s last budget) proposal includes expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income families, …
Last week, when the Trump administration sued California over its so-called sanctuary laws, Gov. Jerry Brown and Atty. Gen. Xavier Beccera made it clear that Sacramento would resist any effort to force the state to take on federal immigration enforcement
It seemed like a sure bet for another display of California’s ultra-blue “Resistance”: Fresh with outrage over President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the Democratic-dominated California Assembly considered a bill to curb both global warming …
If Democrats have any chance of capturing the 24 Republican seats they need to take back control of the House, the road to victory starts here in California, and particularly in Orange County, a former conservative bastion that favored Hillary …
More than any other place, California is well positioned to push back against the agenda of the incoming president. In this special series, Capital & Main examines why and how the Golden State will both lead the resistance to Donald …
They make up nearly 15 percent of California’s population, yet they are often ignored in polling and, by extension, political campaigns.
But research released by the liberal Ballot Initiative Strategy Center shows Asian-American communities in California are eager for more …
When Jim Cooper squared off against a fellow Democrat in last fall’s race to represent part of Sacramento and its southern suburbs in the state Assembly, it wasn’t clear at first who would win. Fewer than 1,000 votes separated them …
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