Politics

Jonathan Thomas, chairman of the California stem cell agency, said this morning that he and a team from the agency will begin a round of meetings this summer with patient advocate groups throughout the state. He said the effort is aimed at keeping the...

Californians received the bottom line Thursday on which insurance firms will sell policies on the state's new health-care exchange this fall and how much those premiums will cost. The announcement by Covered California, the marketplace for such poli...

Today's meeting of the governing board of the $3 billion California stem cell agency begins in less than 30 minutes, and the California Stem Cell Report will provide coverage throughout the day. Among the items on the agenda are awards totaling more th...

Kern County Democrat Leticia Perez has lost her bid to capture former senator Michael Rubio's Senate seat, but the real loser, Dan says, is the "Democratic left." Have a question you'd like Dan to answer? Post it on our Facebook page. See other Dan...

It would be easy to lose track of the steady metronome of new dates and benchmarks in the rollout of the federal health care law, but today is a big one: during a 9 a.m. meeting at the California Museum, officials from the state's new health insuranc...

Weather, terrain, culture, beach sandal-to-hiking boot ratio -- there are plenty of things to distinguish the north state from Southern California. Add to that list where congressional delegations stand on Gov. Jerry Brown's divisive plan to construc...

Californians with disabilities and groups supporting them gathered at the Capitol today for a daylong push to make their voices heard and to lobby for restoration of past budget cuts affecting them. To kick off the event, speakers exhorted hundr...

The journal Nature and genomeweb.com today picked up the story from the California Stem Cell Report about the conflict of interest case at the California stem cell agency involving renown scientist Lee Hood of Seattle, Wash. Science news aggregators...

The California Teachers Association has chosen sides in the incipient conflict over Gov. Jerry Brown's school funding proposal, backing the governor's call to earmark additional money for disadvantaged and English language-learning students. While e...

In an op-ed appearing in several newspapers owned by the parent company of the Sacramento Bee, the president of the California Professional Firefighters is making its case that its legislation to provide firefighters with health benefits is the right thing to do. The bill, sponsored by California Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez, received strong...