Politics

By Lily Dayon Over half the kids in California receive free or reduced lunch at school—yet the majority of these low-income kids don’t receive federally funded meals during the summer. Now schools and community organizations are coming together ...

Measures aimed at creating new taxes on Californians were held by the Senate Appropriations Committee today, making it extremely unlikely that taxes on cigarettes, soda, strip clubs, plastic bags or oil extraction will become law this year. The commit...

Directors of the California stem cell agency approved an $80 million business-friendly plan that will dangle multimillion dollar carrots before biotech firms in an effort to push therapies into the marketplace. The upfront payment effort will allow ...

Directors of the California stem cell agency today approved a $17.4 million operating budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, an increase of 5.1 percent over spending for the current year. As usual, the agency tries to portray its budget a...

Here are the names of the researchers being recruited to California by the California stem cell agency with $36 million in awards. The sixth asked not to be revealed since he/she has yet to tell the current institution and are in negotiations with thei...

MOUNTAIN VIEW - Gov. Jerry Brown complained bitterly this morning that the news media ignores climate change, in a speech attended by more than a dozen photographers and reporters. "If you take a look at Google and type in 'global warming news,' I ven...

The California stem cell agency today awarded $36 million to six scientists to lure them to the Golden State, in what was the agency's largest-ever recruiting round. The awards more than doubled the amount of CIRM has spent on recruitment. Until tod...

The staff of the California stem cell agency is recommending boosting the agency's faculty recruitment program to nearly $59 million, up from $44 million approved in 2010. The funds would go to lure six scientists to the California. Since 2010, only...

Today was a big day for Covered California, the new state-run marketplace for health insurance created under the federal Affordable Care Act. The health exchange rolled out the 13 regional and statewide plans that will be available to more than 5 milli...

Advancing one of Assembly Democrats top priorities, a key Assembly committee today approved the Middle Class Scholarship Act to reduce student fees by up to 40 percent for middle class UC and CSU students. ...