As Meg Whitman aggressively steps up her Latino outreach efforts, some of the state’s Latinos aren’t merely letting her slip by in capturing one of the most influential and powerful voting blocs. 

Based on a phone survey of 400,000 individuals, the CDC is warning that "obesity has become a major problem, both for individuals and for the health care system." 

If there ever was bipartisan common ground, you'd think it would exist safe from government data mining. In theory, it would seem that limited-government conservatives would oppose "Big Brother" just as much as liberal, civil libertarians. They probably do, but you wouldn't know it the way privacy-invading legislation is routinely passed with little debate on Capitol Hill. 

Every political season there are calls to “take back our country” … or our city … or our state.  It’s the standard cry of the opposition.  The Democrats were all about “taking back our government” in 2008, and Republicans are all about it in 2010. 

Meg Whitman had been surging the past few weeks and Democratic politicos were getting nervous. Was Jerry Brown going to do anything or just get steamrolled by eMeg?