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California Governor Jerry Brown delivered a video message Thursday to climate change activists gathered in Hamburg, Germany for a summit to coincide with the G-20 meeting, telling them that President Donald Trump does not represent the United States as a whole, at least on climate change.

California’s ban on the possession of “high capacity” magazines goes into effect on July 1, and Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko made clear he has no plans to send deputies out to collect them.

On Thursday, Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) officially became the sixth candidate — and second Republican — to announce his candidacy for California’s 2018 Democrat-heavy gubernatorial race.

California’s total public employee pension debt of $2.067 trillion is still climbing fast, but the City of San Diego’s is shrinking after five years of only giving new employees a 401(k).

The largest budget in California State history contains none of Gov. Jerry Brown’s promised cuts—but it’s chock full of nasty surprises for taxpayers—including increases in taxes, more money for legal defense of illegal aliens, and expands gun control.

Going forward, the term “Resistance” has become more problematic than ever. It is an unacceptable name for ordinary political opposition. Democrats should drop it, now.

Liberal geographer Joel Kotkin has penned an op-ed in the Orange County Register warning that California is “descen[ding] into socialism” — one that is deigned to protect, rather than expropriate, its rich Silicon Valley elite.

Californians reject the new gas tax and vehicle registration fee increases passed by Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democrat-dominated California legislature.

A new poll from the University of California’s Institute of Government Studies has found that the 2018 governor’s race is tightening between Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

After a nearly decade-long drought, the state known for its endless summer, is now home to a seemingly endless winter, with eight feet of snow on the ground in some of the western mountain ranges.

Embattled freshman Democrat State Senator Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) is resurrecting old smears against the San Diego Republican responsible for organizing a recall election against him for voting for Gov. Jerry Brown’s 12-cent gas tax earlier this year.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new climate change agreement between the State of California and the People’s Republic of China on Tuesday.

Outside money is pouring into the campaign to recall first-term State Senator Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), who voted in favor of the hugely unpopular gas tax, giving Republicans a chance at breaking the Democrats’ supermarjority in the State Senate.

Gov. Jerry Brown and State Treasurer John Chiang plan to tap California’s government payroll accounts to make long-term subsidized loans to the state’s public pension plan in a scheme that hasn’t been tried since it bankrupted Orange County in 1994.

California Governor Jerry Brown attacked President Donald Trump for withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords on Thursday.

Thursday on CNN International, Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) reacted to President Donald Trump decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement on climate change by calling it a “crazy decision.” Brown said, “Well immediate reaction is this is a crazy decision.

In California, after the state robs the taxpayers of their last pennies, apparently more money just falls out of the sky. That must be the conclusion reached by a California state senate committee that passed a $400 billion universal healthcare proposal Thursday

California Governor Jerry Brown told journalists on Wednesday that he was optimistic that Pope Francis would convert President Donald Trump to the cause of climate change.

A new legislative analysis released on Monday found that a single-payer “socialized” health care system would cost the state of California $400 billion per year — three times the current annual budget of the state.

California Governor Jerry Brown referred to taxpayers as “freeloaders” last week for objecting to his new gas tax and car fee hikes. “The freeloaders — I’ve had enough of them … They have a president that doesn’t tell the truth and they’re following suit,” he said.

A man released under AB 109, Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature prison reform, now stands accused of committing two murders, including the murder of a Whittier police officer in February.

Columnist George Skelton of the Los Angeles Times makes an interesting observation about California Governor Jerry Brown and his new budget: while the governor talks “like a skinflint, a penny-pinching scold,” his spending priorities are liberal, and even radical.

Democrats have proposed even more spending on lawyers for illegal aliens, including those convicted of crimes.

Last week, Governor Jerry Brown unveiled his May revisions to the state budget proposal he rolled out in January. Buried deep among billions of dollars in proposed new spending are millions of dollars for the state to provide criminal defense for illegal immigrants in California who are facing deportation to their home country by our own federal government.

Governor Jerry Brown warned in his May Revised Budget last week that California is expected to suffer a $20 billion tax crash in it next recession.

California Governor Jerry Brown warned Thursday that the Republican members of the state’s congressional delegation would have to perform “penance” for having voted for the American Health Care Act in the U.S. House.

A pair of gang members — one of whom was out on the streets because of Jerry Brown’s sentencing reform to allow “non-violent” offenders to be released early from state prison to county supervision — were arrested in the early morning hours last Friday.

Former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders had a message for California’s Democrats on Saturday: “Please lead the country and pass the single-payer bill.”

Gov. Jerry Brown is coming under increasing fire from all sides for ‘stealing’ $1.2 Billion of the cigarette tax money—raised from Proposition 56—and diverting it into the state’s General Fund.

Based on his experiences living in Europe and the “out-of-control” problems now being committed in the name of liberalism in California, model and actor Fabio warns Americans, “Don’t ever give up your guns.”

The California taxman wants add to taxes on space travel on top of taxing land, buildings, businesses, income, transportation and the air we breathe.

California Democrats are seeking to penalize companies who are forced to buy greenhouse gas (GHG) emission permits as part of California’s “cap-and-trade” program, fresh off a victory over business owners who sued to have the program overturned as an illegal tax.

Governor Jerry Brown cut a deal to pass his huge SB-1 gas tax increase through the state legislature by allowing big rig truckers to keep older and more polluting diesel trucks on California roads.

A viable high-speed rail system that actually serves consumer interest may be built in California after all.

The State of California issued the first tranche of taxable construction bonds last Thursday for the High Speed Rail Project, making it clear that it is determined to go ahead with the unpopular project despite numerous obstacles, including federal funding roadblocks thrown up by President Donald Trump.

A growing number of conservative commentators are calling on President Donald Trump to use the California National Guard to escort author Ann Coulter onto the University of California, Berkeley campus when she speaks next week.