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On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown, intoning, “The inequities that have plagued our state and have burdened women forever are slowly being resolved with this kind of bill,” signed the California Fair Pay Act, which aims to ensure that business pay female employees equally who perform “substantially equivalent work” as males.

On Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 953, the “Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015,” into California Law.

California Governor Jerry Brown showed his unflinching support for unlimited drone operations by vetoing three bipartisan bills protecting privacy, public safety and education.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Thursday that will make California the first state in the nation to require the “yes means yes” for sexual consent in high school.

California Gov. Jerry Brown addressed a public hearing on Thursday in Sacramento and made clear he will continue his war on fossil fuels.

Tom Del Beccaro, former chair of the California Republican Party and a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2016, proposed a flat tax on Tuesday.

Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Wednesday allowing drivers with traffic violations that were due to be paid before January 1, 2013, to schedule a court appearance even without paying the attendant fines and traffic penalties.

The Pope’s visit to the United States will include Wednesday’s plan to perform the first canonization on U.S. soil; the act will make controversial Spanish Franciscan priest Junipero Serra a saint.

California Governor Jerry Brown has indicated that he will sign a bill to provide female employees with more tools to enforce equal pay in the workplace.

The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza published a column on Friday arguing that California Gov. Jerry Brown should run for president.

SIMI VALLEY — Retired neurosurgeon and presidential candidate Ben Carson responded to California Gov. Jerry Brown over climate change in the spin room at the GOP debate Wednesday night.

Michael Kinsley, writing for Vanity Fair, urges the Democratic party to consider running Governor Jerry Brown as a potential replacement for Hillary Clinton if Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid continues to plummet.

With the phrase, “I’ll jump in at the appropriate time,” California Gov. Jerry Brown dropped a hint Wednesday that he might, after all, enter the race for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2016.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has a greeting for the GOP Debate on Wednesday: Welcome, “Merchants of Destruction.” Brown deployed his characteristically acid rhetoric in an interview with Bloomberg, in which he flogged his climate change hobbyhorse and attacked the Republican field for neglecting, or denying the issue.

California Gov. Jerry Brown predicted Monday that the effects of global climate change would drive mass migration to his state, similarly to how the current Syrian civil war is causing thousands of refugee migrants to flee to Europe.

California Gov. Jerry Brown sent a letter to Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson on Thursday, along with a flash drive containing the latest science on climate change, challenging him to “review the material.”

California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed legislation last week aimed at protecting privacy by banning drones from flying within 350 feet above a property without the owner’s consent.

Early Saturday morning, after midnight, the California legislature ended its regular session, and two special sessions. Despite an immense amount of pressure on them from the Governor, their Democrat colleagues, and powerful special interests – Republicans held the line and successfully

On September 11, The Huffington Post reflected on how southern Democrats used gun control—and their resulting superior firepower—as a de facto means of suppressing post-Civil War blacks, thereby maintaining a society where “average citizens” lived in the shadow of their “betters,” in clear violation of the 14th Amendment.

California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a controversial drone privacy bill Wednesday, declaring that it would expose hobbyists to excessive litigation.

California Governor Jerry Brown vowed Wednesday to wage a “life-and-death struggle” to “change the very basis of our industrial economy.”

Wednesday California’s State Assembly resurrected from the dead and passed an assisted suicide bill. It will now pass to the State Senate, which has previously passed such legislation.

A bill granting deportation protection to illegal immigrants in California who have been victims of violent crime is currently awaiting signature from Gov. Jerry Brown. SB 674, or, the Immigrant Victims of Crime Equity Act, passed the state Assembly by

Teenage mothers in California could soon be given the space and resources to breastfeed their children in school if Gov. Jerry Brown approves a bill currently awaiting his signature by October.

The “Internet of Things” (IoT) incorporates a dynamic array of technologies that mobilize sensors to monitor environmental conditions and radio-frequency identification RFID tags to facilitate objects interacting with users. California, with its high-tech industry, will lead the nation in IoT deployment.

The Democrat controlled California State Assembly just passed a partisan first of its kind bill that orders CalPERS’ and CalSTRS’ pension plans to sell all of their coal investments.

California Gov. Jerry Brown is working to craft what would become the first statewide regulations for medical marijuana.

On Thursday, the California State Senate approved a bill opening carpool lanes on some Los Angeles County freeways to all drivers during off-peak hours.

California Gov. Jerry Brown wants over three billion dollars in new taxes, including a $65 tax on every vehicle, plus increases in gasoline and diesel excise taxes. The money will go to paying for transportation needs that he ignored in his recent budget.

CAIR’s alliance with the movement reinforces the perception that it opposes law enforcement because it backs some of the aims of Islamic radicals, even as it condemns their tactics.

On August 31, Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed an executive order to initiate the creation of a California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC).

CalPERS, the Golden State’s public employee retirement system, is seeking to shift the cost and risk of pensions to taxpayers after a $5 billion shortfall in 2014.

California residents slashed water use by 31.3 percent in July, well ahead of Gov. Jerry Brown’s mandatory order for a 25 percent statewide reduction by February.

Competitive cheerleading could soon be recognized an official sport in high schools in California.

In July, Los Angeles residents reduced their water use by 21%, meeting the standard that state regulators implemented and avoiding fines and penalties imposed by the state.

California Gov. Jerry Brown is a “geezer,” but he has the “opportunity of a lifetime” in the 2016 presidential race. That’s according to Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton, who says that Brown “never has been in better position to run”–though he argues that “Brown blew his best chance” because of his three previous failed runs (1976, 1980, and 1992).