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Today, Environmental Action Committee of West Marin submitted a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell requesting that she reject the efforts by Dr. Corey Goodman, an advocate/scientist for the Drakes Bay Oyster Company, to bypass peer-reviewed science in order to commercialize Drakes Estero wilderness, the ecological heart of Point Reyes National Seashore. Dr. Goodman...

California State Controller John Chiang sat down with Michelle Kennedy this week to discuss his government transparency initiatives and the Task Force on Reengineering IT Procurement for Success, a high-profile... Read more »

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The purpose of this Information Technology (IT) Request for Quote (RFQ) is to obtain a Contractor to consolidate the functionality of three Department of Justice Law Enforcement Systems Branch photo... Read more »

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A number of top level executives, in addition to six lawyers, at the California stem cell agency knew of Robert Klein's $21,630 donation in May of last year although they failed to report it to the agency's board as required by agency regulations. ...

Join Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association (LISTA) and the California Statewide Chamber of Commerce CAHCC As we Launch the LISTA NorCal./Sacramento Tech Council Tuesday May 21st, 2013 from... Read more »

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Gov. Jerry Brown's revised 2013-2014 budget blueprint may pass political muster, but Dan's not so sure it passes an accounting test. Have a question you'd like Dan to answer? Post it on our Facebook page. See other Dan Walters Daily clips here.

Most of the delegations that visit Sacramento to meet with lawmakers have a few bills they're advocating for, or at least a vague agenda, but it's a little hard to press your cause if you lack opposable thumbs and the capacity for abstract reasoning....

By Alexia Underwood More than one million people in California suffer from mental illness – the largest number of any state. When the final phase of the new health care law starts in January of next year, more California residents than ever before...

When Charles Garcia looks at a garden, he doesn't see plants. He sees medicine, heritage, art and magic. A curandero, Garcia practices traditional folk healing – curanderismo – the way his mother, grandmother and grandfather did. “It's a combinat...

  CBO: Deficit to fall to $642 billion this year, but red ink will explode in 2016 The Congressional Budget Office predicts that federal debt held by the public will account for 74 percent of GDP by 2023, which would lead to higher interest rates ...