California Majority Report

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...

With a hearing scheduled in the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court today the long-scheduled closure of the Drakes Bay Oyster Company has become a cause celebre of well-funded conservative groups, as they seek to overturn the Interior Department’s dec...

The strong revenue California collected in April is one more encouraging sign that after years of weathering the Great Recession we appear to have reached a point of budget stability. To help build on that stability, Assembly Democrats have crafted a ...

This week the Assembly Appropriations Committee is scheduled to consider legislation by Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, AB 1000, that would allow patients direct access to physical therapy treatment for 45 calendar days or 12 visits, without a doctor’s ...

The New Leaders Council (NLC), Sacramento Chapter, which calls itself "the premier political entrepreneurship training program for young progressives," announced yesterday that Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson will be honored as their Political Leader of the Year at a fundraiser hosted by the 2013 fellows’ class. The NLC Sacramento Progressive Leadership Reception and Silent Auction will...

If there’s one thing the debate over public employees’ pensions has taught us, it’s that California needs to invest more in mathematics instruction in its schools. When Stanford professors who receive special interest funding for their work...

Jamie Court, the Executive Director of the Astroturf group ConsumerWatchdog.org, said in a recent interview that "stunts and props are part of our work." Today, he's at it again, with a press event outside the capitol in Sacramento that he's conducting for the special interest that helps bankroll his pay-to-play operations, the state's trial...

The Assembly Agriculture Committee unanimously passed Assembly Bill 38 by Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) yesterday. The legislation is an effort to ensure every California child has access to healthy and nutritious food by creating the Office of Farm to Fork in the Department of Food & Agriculture. The new office will be tasked...

Last week, to perform an end-run around sequester cuts that would have caused massive airport delays, Congress passed legislation to keep funding those agencies in record time. Supporters -- Democrats and Republicans -- crowed about the speed and efficiency to fix a problem. Yet that wouldn't be possible if a handful of legislators have their...

A proposed ballot initiative that would enact a tax on oil and gas extracted from California will be granted summary and title by the Office of the Attorney General today. Californians for Responsible Economic Development, the group behind the measure, now has 150 days to collect 505,000 signatures if they wish to qualify it...