Politics

Millions of Californians who contact the state's new health exchange to buy insurance will be given the opportunity to register to vote, too, a move that some Republicans fear could benefit Democrats. Secretary of State Debra Bowen made California the...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

  Brown taps cap-and-trade money By John Howard CapitolWeekly,  5/15/13 Gov. Brown’s rewritten budget borrows $500 million from California’s cap-and-trade auctions and diverts the money for use in other state programs – a move that drew im...

  City of Santa Barbara Facing Soaring Retirement Costs By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk, 5/14/13 The City of Santa Barbara expects its retirement costs to increase 33.7 percent by 2020 due to the massive investment losses that the California Public Emp...