Tag: Jerry Brown

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, whose term expires in 2013, is interested in running for governor, although he hasn’t stated whether he would run in 2014. “The job I’ve said to people I would like is I would like to

As even more California cities consider bankruptcy, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a funding bill that cleared the way for the first part of the $68 billion high-speed bullet train project to be built. There are legitimate fears that the

The State of California was already facing a $19 billion budget deficit, shorted public schools $8 billion, and was set to release imprisoned rapists into “community probation” when the Legislature approved selling $4.6 billion in new state bonds to build

(AP) California high-speed rail gets green lightBy JUDY LINAssociated PressSACRAMENTO, Calif.California lawmakers gave the green light to start building the nation’s first dedicated high-speed rail line, a multibillion dollar project that will eventually link Los Angeles and San Francisco. The

(AP) California OKs funding for high-speed rail lineBy JUDY LINAssociated PressSACRAMENTO, Calif.California lawmakers approved billions of dollars Friday in construction financing for the initial segment of the nation’s first dedicated high-speed rail line connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco. The

Indio, California, which for 13 years has hosted the famous Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival, where The Pixies, Pulp, Rage Against the Machine and Pavement all hosted their reunion shows, may lose the festival because the city asked

The insanity that controls the Los Angeles Unified School District continues. Despite the enormous sums of money that both California and the City of Los Angeles spend on education, the people who run LAUSD cannot figure out how operate the

The city of Stockton, California, America’s 65th largest city, has filed for bankruptcy. While the media presents Stockton as a sad case of a city economy damaged by the real estate market and frivolous spending on various public works projects,

It doesn’t matter anymore how good you are at your job if you live in the failing state of California; if you’re on a lower rung of the ladder in terms of seniority, you’re toast. Michelle Apperson, a teacher at

Despite all of its inefficiencies, environmentalists wanted a high-speed rail in California, to reduce the carbon footprint. Now, the same environmentalists do not want construction to begin on the project that would connect the Bay Area and Los Angeles because

Just as the teachers of the Los Angeles Unified School District were forced to make concessions by tentatively agreeing to take furlough days in order to help solve the district’s budget crisis, California Highway Patrol officers have also tentatively agreed to take

Look no farther than California for an American version of Greece. The state is so poor that the Los Angeles Unified School District and the teachers’ union have tentatively agreed to give teachers 10 furlough days next year, which would drop the

(AP) Push to quash tobacco tax could echo beyond CalifBy HANNAH DREIERAssociated PressLOS ANGELESBig Tobacco’s success in branding a proposed California cigarette tax as a government boondoggle sent a message that could echo in other states as votes trended toward

The California media is abuzz with reports that for the first time, more California voters view Gov. Jerry Brown (D) unfavorably (43%) than favorably (42%). The news comes on the heels of Brown’s recent announcement that the state’s budget shortfall

SAN DIEGO – By the end of June, one in five San Diego public school teachers might be out of a job. That grim reality has educators scared for their economic futures. That explains why the San Diego teachers union voted in March to

(AP) Brown to detail budget for tackling $16B shortfallBy JUDY LINAssociated PressSACRAMENTO, Calif.California Gov. Jerry Brown will lay out details of a revised state spending plan Monday after announcing over the weekend that the state’s budget shortfall has swelled to

“Only Nixon could go to China” is a political metaphor referring to the ability of a politician with an unassailable reputation among his supporters for staunchly representing and defending their values, to take actions that would draw vicious criticism and

(AP) California facing higher $16 billion shortfallBy JUDY LINAssociated PressSACRAMENTO, Calif.California’s budget deficit has swelled to a projected $16 billion _ much larger than had been predicted just months ago _ and will force severe cuts to schools and public

From the Washington Post: SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s budget deficit has swelled to a projected $16 billion — much larger than had been predicted just months ago — and will force severe cuts to schools and public safety if voters

California’s ubiquitous utopian left may be celebrating Planet Earth with the “masses,” but for days, business journalists have been warning that California’s income tax receipts for the month of April may come in billions of dollars short of expectations, deepening

Yesterday, Los Angeles-bound Delta flight 1063 was forced to make an emergency landing at New York’s JFK airport moments after a bird strike that nearly crippled the Boeing 757’s engines. Grant Cardone, best-selling author and international sales expert, happened to

When Congress passed the “edujobs” stimulus in the summer of 2010, the nation’s teacher union leaders must have made champagne toasts to celebrate their clever way of preserving union jobs while so many public schools were facing budget problems. Union leaders figured

(AP) Calif. set to release $68.4B high-speed rail planFRESNO, Calif.California’s ambitious plans to build a north-to-south high-speed rail system are expected to get a jumpstart Monday when the authority overseeing the project releases an updated blueprint for construction and financing.

State Controller John Chaing continues to uphold the California Great Seal Motto of “Eureka”, i.e., ‘I have found it’. But what Chaing is finding as Controller is that California’s economy as measured by tax revenues is still tanking. Compared to