Representative John Garamendi last week reintroduced his Make It In America: Create Clean Energy Manufacturing Jobs in America Act, H.R. 1524.  The legislation would require that clean energy goods an ...

Earlier this week, someone asked essentially why I am so concerned with the city's fiscal picture while I seemingly fall in line with partisan bias on the nation's debt picture.  The answer to that qu ...

Much has been made of the split on the right, not only between the Senate which voted overwhelmingly for the compromise while the majority of House Republicans voted against it, but within the House, ...

Late last night,or technically early this morning in Washington, the Senate, after intense last minute negotiations between Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, emerged ...

The news that leaked out this morning is that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden made significant progress toward perhaps a deal that would prevent the so-called fis ...

Clearly patience is wearing thin on the part of the President.  The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that President Obama repeatedly lost patience with Speaker of the House John Boehner ...

While the city of Davis has made great progress in shoring up their fiscal standing in the last few weeks, the same cannot be said at the national level.  The media deserves a lot of blame for overhyp ...

While Dozens Were Arrested for Trespassing, No Violence is Reported While thousands of protesters and demonstrators gathered around the Capitol on Monday, a small group stayed inside of the building a ...

Today, thousands of students and workers will converge on the Capitol in Sacramento, where students and others will call for the one percent to pay to re-fund higher education.  The day is about build ...

By E. Roberts Musser The Justice Department just announced a $335 billion settlement with Countrywide Financial, now part of Bank of America.  It is the largest fair lending suit ever, and includes al ...

Yolo County Will Get 74.6 Million Under the Terms of the Agreement It was a landmark decision that will see California homeowners receive compensation for the mortgage meltdown.  Attorney General Kama ...

For a number of years, I would get up early with my father and brother-in-law, and trek to the local Staples in San Luis Obispo on the Friday after Thanksgiving, hoping to time it just right so that w ...

Among my biggest pet peeves in politics are those politicians who argue that we need to run government like a business.  I understand the sentiment and the desire to be fiscally prudent, but at the sa ...

Sacramento City Manager Contract Shows Us Business As Usual Continues - The numbers were stunning.  And they come as a stark reminder that business as usual is not over, that the arms race top to bott ...

I really dislike writing about national politics, as it is too polarizing and tends to induce meaningless partisan debate.  Sometimes though, you just cannot avoid it, and this week really is about th ...

By Assemblymember Mariko Yamada - Almost forty years ago, California pioneered a system to keep frail elders and persons with disabilities in supportive community day settings.  In response to the hig ...

The general attitude towards taxation has been that people want services, they want quality education, and they are willing to raise taxes but not on themselves.  Why do I bring up taxes?  Because I a ...

Yolo County officials are opposed to utilizing local tax money, in an effort to save the Kings by financing the construction of a downtown Sacramento area.Earlier this week, a proposal emerged for the ...

This weekend, much of the nation is watching the Final Four.  I was particularly glued to my seat yesterday to watch a couple of supposed underdogs, Butler and Virginia Commonwealth University, battle ...

It was an interesting and contentious week in Wisconsin and elsewhere, as Governor Scott Walker attempted to sidestep a judicial order by getting an agency with no official authority to publish the co ...