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Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday he does not know if the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open over Labor Day weekend, as scheduled, due to safety concerns.

Editor's Blog , posted by Jeb Bing, editor of the Pleasanton Weekly, 10 hours ago Jeb Bing is a member of PleasantonWeekly.com With those words not heard from a Pleasanton mayor since Ken Mercer in the 1980s, Mayor Jerry Thorne spelled out his views and governing strategy to loud applause at a meeting last Friday of local Realtors and real ... (more)

The bill repeals a law passed by the 2011 Legislature that paved the way for Nevada to exit the Tahoe Compact created in the late 1960s to regulate development and oversee environmental controls in the Tahoe Basin that straddles Nevada and California.

Just months after California voters passed Proposition 30 to stave off education cuts, a push is underway to ensure that the next stream of higher-education funding flows out of the ground.

Gov. Jerry Brown had hardly finished presenting his annual budget revision last week before state Sen.

Last December, in an act of political expediency that shocked and dismayed many immigration activists, Governor Brown declined to sign into law the California Trust Act.

Jerry Brown – who made "lower your expectations" a catchphrase of his first governorship – is back in that mode during his second stint, especially on spending.

Gearing up to run for governor next year, Abel Maldonado went on a statewide, 10-stop barnstorming tour this month.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown recently stepped in it when a reporter asked him about the Bay Bridge.

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today joined with education and business leaders and elected officials at Humphreys Avenue Elementary School in East Los Angeles to call for action on his plan to direct additional resources to the state's neediest students and restore local control over how money is spent in schools.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute will hold a Congressional staff and media briefing on "EPA's FOIA Scandals: 'Richard Windsor,' Gina McCarthy, and the Abuse of Power," given by Chris Horner, author of The Liberal War on Transparency and CEI Senior Fellow, from 3 to 4 PM on Monday, May 20, in room 406 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building.

UCR Med took it in the chops last week when Gov. Brown, known to have CTS omitted a $15 million yearly appropriation from his latest budget.

One of the biggest challenges California's 1,000 or so school districts face -- the implementation of transformational new Common Core standards, curriculum and testing over the next two years -- may be about to get a lot easier.

Nevada Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson, R-Las Vegas, left, talks with Sen.

Gov. Jerry Brown negotiated the new compact last fall with the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday blocked the parole of an inmate who is serving a life sentence for the execution-style killing of a prison guard 36 years ago during a series of armed robberies.

The California State Senate approved bill SB 126 Friday which renews the autism insurance mandate established by SB 946 through 2019.

With a proposed jump in school spending this year, Brown wants to target new dollars at districts with students who are low-income, English-learners or foster children.

Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor projected state revenues Friday that are $3.2 billion higher than those projected by Gov.

Twenty-five years ago, California voters approved - albeit very narrowly - the education community's ballot measure that engraved a complex school-finance structure into the state constitution.