Budget Deficit Shadows Capitol

California lawmakers just lived through a bizarre and stressful year of man-made energy shortages, blackouts and billion-dollar utility bankruptcies. Now comes budget mayhem. In an election year, no less. As legislators take down their Christmas trees and flock back to the Capitol for the start of the 2002 lawmaking session Monday, they are being greeted … Read more

Get real on Real ID

It’s time for some real talk about Real ID. That’s the perennial legislation from state Sen. Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles) to permit illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. The latest version, SB 60, was approved by the Senate this week and now heads to the Assembly, where it is almost certain to pass. Then Gov. … Read more

Unlawful border crossings dropped to four-year low in November, new data show

Asylum seekers from Ecuador, Guatemala and Colombia prepare to be detained by Border Patrol after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Unlawful border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped to a four-year low, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, with 46,610 people stopped between ports of entry … Read more

Los Angeles, Give Yourself Some Credit : Campaign law wasn’t perfect–but what an improvement

Democratic politics is inherently fairer than a totalitarian system, but it is not necessarily cleaner. Democratic states everywhere have had to amend their systems in response to campaign-financing scandals that threatened to undermine public confidence in the election process–and thus in government itself. Viewed from this global perspective, the City of Los Angeles was right … Read more

Questions on Health Records Dog Clinton

As President Clinton campaigned through California on a 24-hour visit in which he raised $4.5 million for the Democratic Party, White House officials scrambled to deal with questions about why they will not release the president’s full medical records. At a campaign stop in Ohio on Thursday, Bob Dole’s chief spokesman hinted darkly that president … Read more

Your guide to California’s Congressional District 26 race: Rep. Julia Brownley vs. Matt Jacobs

Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village), left, and her GOP rival, Matt Jacobs are vying to represent California’s 26th Congressional District. (Associated Press/Cliff Owen) 1 The race in California’s 26th Congressional District, mostly based in Ventura County but with a sliver of Los Angeles County, features veteran Democratic lawmaker Julia Brownley facing off with former federal … Read more

Why wait? Six weeks before the 2024 election, California is having a 2026 governor’s debate

Candidates running for California governor in 2026 include, clockwise from top left, state Sen. Toni Atkins, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, former state Controller Betty Yee, and State Supt. of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond. (Associated Press; Los Angeles Times) If you’re tired of thinking about who’s going to be the next president, why not start thinking … Read more

Westly Goes Public With Tax Records

State Controller Steve Westly released a decade of his tax returns Monday, showing the former EBay executive received nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in income during the 10 years, mostly from selling stock in the online auction house. Westly’s release of tax returns is designed in part to pressure Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and … Read more

California congressman offers bill to allow striking workers to collect unemployment pay

SAG-AFTRA member John Schmitt, second from right, and others carry signs on the picket line outside Netflix in Los Angeles last month. (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press) The political fight over whether workers on strike should be allowed to collect unemployment benefits is reigniting in Washington. U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat who is … Read more

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