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CBS Sacramento
February 12, 2018
Assemblyman Travis Allen says he isn't fazed by the allegations; he says his focus right now is getting California under better leadership. Allen is the latest California politician to be accused of sexual harassment allegations stemming several years back. The accusations include Allen squeezing a femaleÃÂ ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
February 11, 2018
The dizzying cavalcade of sexual harassment allegations toppling the rich and powerful seemed to reach epic proportions last week when the California assemblywoman who was one of the leaders of the #MeToo movement herself was swept up in the maelstrom. Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-BellÃÂ ...
Advocate.com
February 9, 2018
After gaining national recognition for her support of the #MeToo movement, Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia has been accused of sexual misconduct by one of her staffers. The accuser, Daniel Fierro, told the Washington Post that Garcia, who chairs the Legislative Women's Caucus,ÃÂ ...
Valley Roadrunner
February 1, 2018
There is the insanity of mobs, the madness of rabid canines, and then there is the special insanity reserved for the “governing” party in Sacramento. Imagine that you are having lunch at a local eatery. You order a hamburger and a Coke and the waiter brings you an icy glass with the moisture running downÃÂ ...
Reason (blog)
January 31, 2018
Drug money Andrii Iarygin/Dreamstime.comThe difficulties of running a state-legal recreational marijuana market when the substance is prohibited at the federal level are pushing California politicians to consider some less than ideal policy solutions. California Treasurer and gubernatorial candidate JohnÃÂ ...
Gizmodo
January 30, 2018
On Saturday, Musk announced he was selling the $500 flame-sputterers, which are a fundraising merchandise for his tunnel-digging business, The Boring Company. A spokesperson for the company told Gizmodo that as of this morning, it has sold 15,000 “flamethrowers”—$7.5 million's worth.
The Verge
January 29, 2018
Elon Musk's plan to sell 20,000 people a $500 flamethrower branded with the name of his Los Angeles-based tunnel-digging venture, The Boring Company, has hit a roadblock. In a statement issued today and published on Twitter by Los Angeles Times report Liam Dillon, California Assemblyman MiguelÃÂ ...
KQED
January 23, 2018
Each January, as lawmakers return to Sacramento from three months in their hometowns, hundreds of lobbyists and staff members join them at The Park nightclub near the Capitol to sip Moscow Mules, puff on cigars and catch up with old friends and frenemies. For more than a decade, the extravagantÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
January 22, 2018
Dramer and a group of fellow local delegates to the California Democratic Party sent a letter to the Sacramento region's congressional and legislative representatives and contenders asking if they or their employees had been investigated, arrested, prosecuted or had been the subject of verified claimsÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
January 10, 2018
Scattered community efforts to help residents lessen the blow of the Republican tax overhaul's limit on a popular deduction are turning into full-fledged rebellion in California and elsewhere across the country. Democratic politicians are pursuing creative — and some say legally suspect — maneuvers toÃÂ ...
Civilized
January 10, 2018
One of the most interesting aspects of California's new recreational marijuana law was a provision that would allow people with marijuana convictions to get their criminal records cleared. However, some say the process to do so is complicated, long and expensive. One California politician is looking toÃÂ ...
Capital Public Radio News
January 9, 2018
We now have the final report from independent engineering consultants about what went wrong — and while the report clearly states that the incident "cannot reasonably be 'blamed' mainly on any one individual, group, or organization" the California Department of Water Resources sure comes in for a lotÃÂ ...
Governing
January 8, 2018
“If [California Gov. Jerry Brown] thinks he's protecting immigrant communities, he's doing quite the opposite," said Thomas Homan on Fox News last week. ... among immigrant advocates and many local officials when he said politicians supporting so-called sanctuary city policies should be held "personallyÃÂ ...
CBS News
January 3, 2018
"I think it's terrible–you got the state of California that wants to put politics ahead of public safety, ahead of officer safety. What they have done is forced my officers to arrest dangerous criminals on their turf, in their homes and places of business, rather than arresting them in the safety and security of a countyÃÂ ...
The Beacon
December 31, 1999
California's fee for zero-emissions vehicles, which is paid by upper-income people who can afford to buy Teslas, is a paltry $100. Although truthfulness is not something we expect politicians, Sacramento ought to admit that the recent state gas-tax increase is just a convenient and nontransparent way ofÃÂ ...
FiveThirtyEight
December 31, 1999
Prior to the creation of California's commision, lawmakers enacted maps that ensured their likely re-election, Republican and Democrat alike. The new law explicitly barred the commission from drawing lines that would benefit any party or politician, and it instead instructed commissioners to keep existingÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
December 31, 1999
During a Fox News appearance last week, acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan said, “This isn't the America I grew up in. We've got to take these sanctuary cities on. We've got to take them to court and we've got to start charging some of these politicians with crimes.”à...
Splinter (blog)
December 31, 1999
As another silver lining, the race for that seat could mean another woman being elected to the overwhelmingly male California Assembly. At least two other women have announced their bid to run for Bocanegra's seat, including former Assemblywoman Patty Lopez and Bonnie Corwin, a local resident whoÃÂ ...
Platts
November 13, 2017
California's legislature appears unwilling to allow utilities/regulators from ... controlled by an entity controlled by California politicians/regulators.
Press-Enterprise
November 13, 2017
Not all of California's potential transgender politicians are Democrats or liberals. Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympian and reality TV star who is ...
POLITICO Magazine
November 12, 2017
California's doomsayer governor did not express much optimism either. .... called Trump the “null hypothesis” for climate change, a politician who by “making ... Brown, more than many politicians, could appreciate the populist ...
Sacramento Bee
November 12, 2017
Brown and other California politicians make headlines by declaring on an almost daily basis their disdain for what's happening in the rest of the ...
Los Angeles Times
October 27, 2017
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla backs Gavin Newsom for ... They come from different power bases for Latino politicians in Los ...
Los Angeles Times
October 26, 2017
What do Republican politicians in many red states understand that the California GOP does not? Answer: That increasing gas taxes is good ...
CBS News
October 19, 2017
Some Californian women in politics are speaking out against what they call "pervasive" sexual harassment. It comes in response to allegations ...
89.3 KPCC
October 11, 2017
Antonio Garcia, 27, has been homeless in Van Nuys for about two years. "I'm trying to hang in here," Garcia says. He's focused on teaching and ...
LifeZette
October 9, 2017
California politicians offered many reasons last week for praising a new law making it a “sanctuary state.” Gov. Jerry Brown, who signed the bill, ...
SFGate
October 2, 2017
California politicians and other leaders expressed condolences — and some called for a renewed examination of gun laws — Monday after the ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Dozens of California politicians signed a letter to President Trump asking for $7.4 billion in federal funding for wildfire relief. [The San Francisco ...
Chron.com
December 31, 1999
AUSTIN -- Texas BBQ, beer and California wine are on the line as the Houston Astros take on the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series this ...
Los Angeles Times
September 15, 2017
A group of California Republicans on Thursday filed papers to launch ... "Sacramento politicians really crossed the line with these massive carÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 15, 2017
Ms. Merkel herself once buttonholed the governor of California to complain about the state's strict emissions standards. Those close relationsÃÂ ...
KCET
September 15, 2017
In California, politicians have denounced recent white supremacist rallies Virginia and elsewhere, condemning them as gatherings of racismÃÂ ...
KQED
September 15, 2017
California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during Day Three of the ... of likely voters say they'll support the Southern California politician,ÃÂ ...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
September 15, 2017
California lawmakers are preparing to vote on a so-called "sanctuary ... "If California politicians pass this bill, they will be prioritizing politics overÃÂ ...
City Watch
September 15, 2017
NEW GEOGRAPHY--California's political leaders having ignored and even abetted our housing shortage now pretend that they will “solve it.
Sacramento Bee
September 13, 2017
Perhaps changes at the federal level would inspire California politicians to create a tax code that would benefit all Californians.
Half Moon Bay Review
September 6, 2017
California politicians were largely condemning President Donald Trump's decision to phase out the federal Deferred Action for ChildhoodÃÂ ...
89.3 KPCC
August 20, 2017
Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislative leaders have promised to tackle California's affordable housing crisis in their final weeks of workÃÂ ...
City Watch
August 18, 2017
NEW GEOGRAPHY-Images of California, particularly the southern coast, are ... Southern California politicians, seemingly more obsessed withÃÂ ...
Grist
August 18, 2017
Noemi Tungui lives in Oxnard, California, the so-called “Strawberry Capital of the ... While politicians throughout the state have made grand pledges to upholdÃÂ ...
Fresno Bee
August 18, 2017
California panel changes donor rule as Democrat faces recall ... The commission has long had a rule that politicians can only contribute ... money a politician can raise from fellow lawmakers to fight a recall Thursday, Aug.
Fresno Bee (blog)
August 17, 2017
California obviously has a severe shortage of housing, but the crisis is felt ... While the Capitol's politicians are beating the drums for either newÃÂ ...
Press-Enterprise
August 17, 2017
While politicians across California seem content to ignore the problem, both the cost and excesses of public sector pensions continue to grow.
The Root
August 17, 2017
California is far west from the battlefields of the Civil War, and not the first ... because a lot of the local politicians supported the Confederacy.”.
KUSI
August 17, 2017
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — Mayor Faulconer delivered a speech before the Commonwealth Club of California Tuesday night that laid out a newÃÂ ...
Sacramento Bee
August 17, 2017
“You're not going to steal the vote of the people of California in private, ... He dismissed perceptions that he would be soft on politicians asÃÂ ...
fox13now.com
August 8, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY — In the 3rd Congressional District Republican Primary race, the Chris Herrod campaign produced an ad painting TannerÃÂ ...
CALmatters
August 5, 2017
Politicians are habitually lured by easy money, which is defined as money they can spend without directly taxing their constituents, butÃÂ ...
fuse.tv
August 3, 2017
For the uninitiated, the California politician went viral on July 27 when she repeatedly uttered "reclaiming my time" during a House FinancialÃÂ ...
