A few days ago, Republican Senators Bill Emmerson (Hemet), Tom Berryhill (Modesto), Anthony Cannella (Ceres) and Tom Harman (Huntington Beach) wrote an op-ed in the LA Times, pushing for their public ...

Occupy Movement Blasts the Deal and Calls For Moratorium on Foreclosure Kamala Harris last week had a day many politicians dream of: a headline-making announcement that delivers a large amount of mone ...

Angry Response From Public Employees to the Governor's Plan On Thursday, Governor Jerry Brown unveiled the statutory and constitutional language to implement the 12-point pension reform plan he presen ...

Move Puts Further Pressure on CalPERS to Do Likewise In a move with huge implications, the governing board of the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), the pension fund for teachers, ...

However Other Groups Continuing to Back Millionaire's Tax Governor Brown has had to fight not only the right on his tax initiative, but his own base in the form of at least two competing measures.  Th ...

There is little doubt that Governor Jerry Brown, who has struggled to get a handle on the budget, will applaud the findings in a recent PPIC (Public Policy Institute of California) poll that shows 68 ...

Senator Wolk: Opposes Peripheral Canal in Delta Plan "California is on the mend," Governor Brown began his State of the State address, arguing that because of last year's actions, "we shrunk state gov ...

A Look at Education in Governor Brown's Budget Proposal The Vanguard is going to, over the next week or so, analyze several critical areas of the budget.  We begin where we have been for the last seve ...

There is a nine billion dollar hole that the state is going to have to fill.  How it chooses to fill it will depend more on the decision of voters than it will on the legislators. The worst cuts can b ...

In what has been billed a significant victory for the Jerry Brown administration, the California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the state could eliminate redevelopment agencies, thus paving the ...

A statewide survey released on Monday by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) found that the majority of California voters favor Governor Jerry Brown's proposal to temporarily increase the ...

A piece of legislation that may have the most impact on the fiscal solvency of cities like Davis is Governor Jerry Brown's public pension reform plan.  Earlier this week, analysis from the nonpartisan ...

By Dan Aiello The Department of Fish and Game's announcement this month of a remarkable turnaround in the populations of the Bay-Delta estuary's endangered Smelt and Salmon species spelled more troubl ...

35,000 poor, frail elders slated to lose adult daycare benefit December 1 By Assemblymember Mariko Yamada Recent front-page Sacramento Bee headlines about tragedies in California nursing homes should ...

Last night, Governor Jerry Brown laid down the gauntlet against Republican lawmakers, accusing them of an "unconstitutional delegation of power." The governor, angry that the legislature defeated his ...

Will Water Policies Further Imperil Funding to Local Schools? An already bad month is about to get worse, and we are only a third of the way through August.  It seemed like, just a few months ago, a r ...

I have fought hard to fight costs at other levels of government because my belief is that education spending is an investment in the future.  Sadly, I fear these priorities will go out the window, as ...

The legislature did on Tuesday what Judge David Rosenberg had admonished Davis Enterprise Columnist Rich Rifkin about, saying it could not be done, when they moved about 300 million dollars from the c ...

The budget is on time for the first time in a long time, but there is no joy in Mudville.  The goals of the administration are quashed and the only reason the budget was passed was the voters last Nov ...

It was in a lot of ways an amazing turn of events, as Governor Jerry Brown gave up any hope of striking a bipartisan budget deal on taxes, abandoned the idea of placing tax extensions on the ballot, a ...