"What we're looking at today is much worse than it's ever been before and our opportunities to fix it are very limited."  So said Gov. Jerry Brown at one of his December "budget conferences" around the state. 

In keeping with its reputation for inconsistent legal interpretations, the Supreme Court of California has decided that police officers have a right to search a suspect's cell phone without a warrant.

Two special elections for State Senate scheduled on February 15th will be the first to be held under California’s “top two” open primary, and at least one candidate is running in protest of the new system.

The controversial approval last month by the state Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) of a highly toxic chemical for use on California strawberry fields and fruit orchards has sparked a lawsuit by farmworkers and environmentalist seeking to overturn its regulation.

Today’s Medicare beneficiaries are receiving far more in health care benefits than they contributed to the program through their payroll taxes, and current contributions are insufficient to sustain the program in the long-term according to the Urban Institute (UI), a DC-based think tank.