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Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor, right, is releasing his take on Gov. Jerry Brown's revised May budget today. The LAO questioned Brown's higher education plan and generally approved of his school funding overhaul back in February. SENIOR LOBBY DAY: T...

Delta Air has succeeded in having a California superior state court dismiss with prejudice on May 9th a lawsuit filed by the State Attorney General (AG) Kamala Harris, alleging that... Read more »

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The good news out of Oregon is that some diligent scientists in the Beaver State have accomplished a major advance in stem cell research --- the cloning of human stem cells. That bad news is that their research would have been illegal in California,...

  More California Cities May Face Bankruptcy California City News,  5/16/13 Despite signs of an upturned economy, cities across California continue to face fiscal issues so large they may turn to bankruptcy. Joel Kotkin, a professor of urban deve...

  More bad news for California’s jobless Central Valley Business Times,   5/16/13 •  Unemployment insurance customer service center hours being cut •  Federal underfunding leads to reductions A $158 million cut in federal funds over the ...

  Feinstein Won’t Condemn Seizure of AP Phone Records By Meredith Shineroll Call, 5/15/13 Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is not yet alarmed by recent news that the Department of Justice acquired the phone records of A...

  Will San Francisco’s Kindergartener Bank Accounts Catch On? By J.B. Wogan, Governing,   5/15/13 Douglas Vasquez, dressed in a sweater vest and glasses, takes his 6-year-old daughter, Mia, by the hand and guides her inside their neighborh...

  FEMA Plans Clear-Cutting of 85,000 Berkeley and Oakland Trees by Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron,   5/15/13 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is moving to chop down 22,000 trees in Berkeley’s historic Strawberry and Claremont Canyons a...

  Gov. Brown’s May budget revision balances only by ignoring unfunded liabilities By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog,  5/14/13 SACRAMENTO — Balancing the economic realities of the state budget with political influences surely is a challenging task. ...

  LA budget officials don’t know how much money may be hidden in city departments Alice Walton, KPCC,  5/15/13 The chair of the Budget and Finance Committee is seeking a complete list of the city’s special funds. The recent discovery ...