Assemblymembers - Get back to Sacramento, and get to work! -Today marks day seven of the new fiscal years -- a week without an adopted budget for the state of California. Much has been said already, and will be said over the coming weeks and possibly months about how we've ended up with such a budget ...

Mormon challenge to gay marriage ban -Some Mormons are rejecting their prophet's call to campaign for a ban on same-sex marriage in California.

Villaraigosa May Have Uphill Battle in Governor's Race -The race for the Democratic nomination for Governor of California is two years off but it's quickly becoming a two man show between San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and former Governor and current Attorney General Jerry Brown, perhaps leaving little ...

Perata's parting gift -First, the termed-out Oakland Democrat launched and then scrapped a ludicrous attempt to recall a popular Republican incumbent, Sen. Jeff Denham of Merced. The only credible explanation for the effort? An investigation by the East Bay Express ...

Editorial: What are they inhaling? -Air board's CO2 plan costly, painful, unneeded

Tax-happy New York learning from Prop. 13, 30 years later -Separated by three decades and 3,000 miles, pressure to limit government spending and taxes has moved from California to New York.

A lot of money is needed to fight redistricting lies -Perpetual gridlock over the state budget is annual proof of the corrosive partisanship in the California Legislature.

Steve Schmidt's first moves as McCain manager bode new discipline, style -The new campaign manager's decisive and methodical new style unfolds today in Denver. Steve Schmidt, the political veteran named last week to run the stuttering presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain and save it from itself, has moved quickly to ...

Metal Theft Bills Aim at Deterring Crime -Bills aimed at deterring the rising crime of metal theft in California are making their way through the state legislature.

Solving the state budget -As he so often does, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California now finds himself in between his fellow Republicans and the Democrats in the Legislature, this time on the question of whether California government needs a new spending limit to end its ...

Rebuilding voters' trust is Job 1 in Sacramento -Here's Sacramento's problem: It desperately needs more tax money to provide the services the public wants. But the public doesn't trust Sacramento to spend any new money wisely.Polling shows that Californians are concerned about ...

In case of fire - California's long, hot summer of wildfires is forcing Sacramento to confront major questions: How will the state pay the ever-rising firefighting bill and what's the best way to prevent the loss of more homes?

Dan Walters: Dems want to roll back Schwarzenegger's changes in workers' comp -A new report on California's highly contentious system of compensating workers for job-related illnesses and injuries proves that the systemic overhaul pushed through the Legislature by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2004 continues to save employers ...

Most Californians, especially lawmakers, won't feel impact of budget delay -Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, to the dismay of his aides, last week cracked a joke as the state began another fiscal year without a state budget.

California's fiscal woes largely of its own making -The state faces a crisis, but many others are doing well. Much of the fault lies with . . . well, us.SACRAMENTO -- As Californians brace for big reductions in government services, the possibility of tax hikes and a long summer of budget bickering, ...