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Gov. Jerry Brown demurred last week when asked about the agreement he reached with SEIU Local 1000 that includes a deferred 4.5 percent raise for all of the local's 95,000 state workers.

A legislative committee has recommended that the Senate confirm Gov. Jerry Brown's choice to lead California's prison system.Members of the Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday challenged how acting Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard is dealing with multiple inmate deaths from suicides and from Valley Fever, a soil-borne fungus in the San Joaquin ... (more)

Battered by criticism from open government activists, the Assembly will vote Thursday to undo a budget bill that made some provisions of the state's Public Records Act optional for local governments.

A state budget "trailer bill" now awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown's signature would eviscerate the California Public Records Act, a long-standing "sunshine law" that allows the press and public to access most state and local government documents.

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation to allow the hiring of hundreds of call-center employees in Rancho Cordova and elsewhere to assist in selling medical insurance through California's new health care exchange.

Yes, it's time again for California lawmakers to take a break from all that lawmaking, roll up their sleeves and see who can make the best California roll .

After passage of a budget with a $12 million windfall for the Legislature and a likely pay increase for state workers, a commission today will consider whether to restore salary cuts for California's top elected officials.

California would nearly triple the number of oil refinery safety inspectors under a proposal on the governor's desk that backers say would help close regulatory gaps that federal investigators found played a role in the fire at Chevron's Richmond refinery last year.

For millions of California homeowners, Saturday was a day that will live in infamy.

Termed-out Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has been coy about his plans when he leaves office at the end of the month, said today he definitely wants to run for governor, although he didn't say when that might happen.

Is his call for citywide ballot initiative an innocuous, family-friendly proposal? Or a way to get elected to the state assembly? What if it's both? When Board of Supervisors President David Chiu introduced his proposal last week for a citywide ballot initiative setting laws around flexible schedules for caregivers, he was not only cribbing from ... (more)

Riverside County supervisors today tentatively approved a "fragile" $4.7 billion budget for fiscal year 2013-14, holding off on full implementation of the financial blueprint until the county's yearend balance sheet is clearer.

Now I know what you're thinking: doesn't California Governor Jerry Brown deserve a coveted Power Line Green Weenie lifetime achievement award for some of the things he did 35 years ago , when he was governor first time around? Goes without saying.

On Friday, Mayor Bob Henderson sent a letter to the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court urging him to begin the process re-opening the courthouse.

With the state budget behind them and three months remaining in the 2013 legislative session, do lawmakers have much left to do? Hundreds of bills remain to be processed in the few weeks remaining before the midsummer vacation recess and the month after the recess, but while several are controversial and at least semi-important, there's nothing of ... (more)

An attorney representing inmates at two California state prisons told a federal judge on Monday that an airborne fungus occurring in the San Joaquin Valley presents the deadly threat of valley fever and that thousands should be transferred immediately.

Cities and counties could dramatically restrict the information they release to the public without explanation under a bill approved by the state Legislature and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown as part of the state budget package.

A plan intended, at least in part, to resolve decades of water conflict in the Delta has instead spawned a flood of lawsuits, with at least five separate suits filed against the plan in recent days.

It all started with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom doing something illegal. It then continued with then attorney general Jerry Brown's office changing the focus of a marriage initiative.

A candidate in a sour economy, who is now governor in a still-recovering Florida, Rick Scott has made job creation his signature political theme.