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The Fresno Bee
| 4 months ago
The last time Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in a feature film was a decade ago when he played his iconic robot in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines." Acting took a back seat to politics from 2003-11 when Schwarzenegger served as governor of...
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KSBY
| 4 months ago
Gov. Jerry Brown is offering more money to California's public colleges and universities, but in return he wants them to hold down costs, expand online learning and stop raising tuition, which has increased sharply in recent years. The University of...
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San Francisco Bay View
| 4 months ago
Popular Tags Archives Feeds by Emily Harris, Californians United for a Responsible Budget Sacramento The state of California filed another response Tuesday to the federal court order to reduce dangerous overcrowding in California's prisons, urging...
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The Reporter
| 4 months ago
State Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Solano, chairs the Senate Committee on Governance and Finance, and said she agrees with Brown's "cautious approach" on the budget, but wants to see even more done. "While the governor was successful in persuading voters to...
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Los Angeles Times
| 4 months ago
After five years of crippling deficits, Gov. Jerry Brown announced Thursday that the state is in the black as he proposed a $97.7-billion budget that would increase funds for education and healthcare while still leaving money on the table. The...
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Los Angeles Times
| 4 months ago
Public schools California's K-12 schools are among the biggest winners in the governor's budget, with a proposed funding increase of $2.7 billion. The money would come with plans to shift some of it away from wealthy suburban districts so it can be...
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Reuters
| 4 months ago
Topics California Governor Jerry Brown speaks at a news conference in Los Angeles, California in this file photo taken August 28, 2012. California's economy is on the mend, but Governor Brown is expected to take a cautious approach to spending when...
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The Orange County Register
| 4 months ago
True to this word, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday proposed a budget for 2013-14 that eschews dramatic, across-the-board spending increases, despite new revenue, and instead offers modest gains to California schools. "It maintains the cuts that were...
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San Francisco Bay Guardian
| 4 months ago
He's eliminated the chronic deficits, he's giving some more money to the schools, and he's vowing that the state will live "within its means."...And gee, just about everyone in Sacramento is singing Kumbaya ; the praise is coming not just from...
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The Guardian
| 4 months ago
California Governor Jerry Brown at a news conference about California's prison conditions, 8 January 2013, in Los Angeles. Photograph: Ringo Chiu/Corbis On Monday of this week, Governor Jerry Brown of California made the surprise announcement that...
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Associated Press
| 4 months ago
Highlights of the California budget plan Gov. Jerry Brown released Thursday: 1. Brown's $97.6 billion general fund budget for the next fiscal year eliminates the massive shortfalls of the past few years and instead includes an $850 million surplus...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 4 months ago
01/10/2013 11:15:40 AM PST California's already budget-battered court system appears to be taking another hit in Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan, which proposes draining another $200 million from the judiciary's coffers by delaying courthouse...
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Big News Network
| 4 months ago
Unlike previous years, it is expected to not be as full of dramatic spending cuts, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Instead, Brown is expected to offer up increased spending on education, though hes not expected to restore funding in deeply...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 4 months ago
Gov. Jerry Brown today offered the first good-news state budget California has seen in years, which he said boosts investment in education, implements health-care reform and maintains fiscal stability while projecting surpluses for years to come. The...
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Community News
| 4 months ago
Riding a wave of new tax revenue, Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing a state spending plan that eliminates the deficit and provides $6.3 billion more in spending than the previous year. The comparatively rosy budget outlook for the coming fiscal year...
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KSBY
| 5 months ago
After years of double-digit deficits, California's fiscal outlook is looking brighter. Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday will propose his third budget since reclaiming the governor's office. It's expected to be the first time in many years that the nation'...
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Sacramento Bee
| 5 months ago
The governor recommitted this week to bring the prisoners home at the same time he's asking federal judges to butt out of the state's prison business. The system's chronic overcrowding and poor inmate medical care, he said, are fixed. "I applaud the...
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SF Gate
| 5 months ago
It is now time to return the control of our prison system to California," Gov. Jerry Brown declared at a news conference Tuesday morning...Federal lawsuits and federal judges have taken over the state's prison system. Unelected judges don't have to...
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Los Angeles Times
| 5 months ago
For starters, you've got to appreciate Gov. Jerry Brown as an entertainer. During a lengthy news conference Tuesday he gestured, defied and ranted...California has had other entertaining governors, but they were professional entertainers out of...
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Los Angeles Times
| 5 months ago
The days of catastrophic deficits behind him, Gov. Jerry Brown is set to propose a state budget Thursday that would shift the Capitol's focus from fiscal triage to sweeping policy changes in education, criminal justice and healthcare. Brown is...
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10 News
| 5 months ago
Gov. Jerry Brown is preparing a spending plan as California faces its most optimistic financial outlook in years, yet the Democratic governor's intention to stick with a frugal fiscal agenda could put him on a collision course with Democratic...
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Times Standard
| 5 months ago
After years of changes, the Democratic governor said California would have to grant shorter sentences to inmates convicted of violent or serious felonies to meet the court's mandate. He also called for restoring the state's authority over its prison...
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The Herald
| 5 months ago
54:15 PM PST Updated: 01/08/2013 10:54:15 PM PST Monterey County officials are anxiously awaiting federal judges' ruling on Gov. Jerry Brown's two opposing proposals for meeting prison population reduction deadlines.
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Sacramento Bee
| 5 months ago
During his first governorship three decades ago, with crime rates and public anger on the rise, he signed many lock-'em-up crime bills and launched what later became a massive prison construction program...Senate in 1982 due, in part, to his...
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Sacramento Bee
| 5 months ago
But I'm going to fight it.' The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office said in November that it expected California to boost spending on K-12 schools by $2 billion, or 3.7 percent, from $53.8 billion to $55.8 billion next fiscal year. Under current...
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Sacramento Bee
| 5 months ago
But experts say there is a slim chance of that. "I think the court will respond very negatively," said Joan Petersilia, a Stanford Law School professor and former corrections adviser to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "I would be very surprised if they...
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Los Angeles Times
| 5 months ago
A combative Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday declared that "the prison crisis is over in California" and demanded an end to years of intervention by federal judges and expensive edicts designed to reduce crowding and improve inmate healthcare. "At some...
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Sacramento News
| 5 months ago
Federal investigators have said California has a serious prison problem, but Gov. Brown disputed that claim Tuesday and he's calling for changes in where and how we now house our most violent criminals. ';Our prisons are not overcrowded,'; he said at...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 5 months ago
Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday held his first Capitol news conference of the new year -- the first since it was announced he had prostate cancer. He tackled the issue of federal control over California's prison system. Here's a sampling of what Brown...
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The New York Times
| 5 months ago
January 8, 2013 Gov. Jerry Brown asked federal judges on Tuesday to lift a court order for more releases of state prisoners to reduce overcrowding, saying that such a move could harm public safety. California has been under court orders to reduce the...
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KIEM
| 5 months ago
He also says it's time for the feds to back off from its oversight of mental healthcare in California's prison system. Tuesday brown expressed that progress has been made and there is no need for federal supervision...Supreme Court ruled California...
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Reuters
| 5 months ago
Topics California Governor Jerry Brown speaks during the opening ceremony of the Space Shuttle Endeavour Exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, California October 30, 2012. California's Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, who has...
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SF Gate
| 5 months ago
Calif. (AP) Declaring that California's long-running prison crisis is over, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday challenged a federal court order by saying the state has done all it can to safely relieve overcrowding and improve medical and mental health care...
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The Orange County Register
| 5 months ago
31 pm · Citing successful reforms and the expenditure of billions of dollars, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday proclaimed California's prison crisis over and said it's time for the federal government to remove its cap on the state prison population and...
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The Boston Globe
| 5 months ago
Calif. (AP) Gov. Jerry Brown says reducing California's inmate population further to meet a federal order will endanger public safety and require the state to ignore its own sentencing laws. After years of implementing changes, California would have...
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NewKerala
| 5 months ago
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he loves playing funny roles and thinks he is gifted with comic timing. The 65-year-old is best known for his powerhouse roles in action films such as "Terminator 2" and "Commando". "For me, my roles always rely on...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 5 months ago
Font Resize Calling California's prison overcrowding problems "a distant memory," state officials have asked a special federal court panel to release the nation's largest system from orders forcing them to continue to reduce a once-overwhelming...
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SF Gate
| 5 months ago
Calif. (AP) Gov. Jerry Brown is challenging a federal court order that California further reduce its inmate population to improve prison conditions, reigniting a legal battle that already once reached the U.S...Complying with the court's June...
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Sacramento News
| 5 months ago
Tuesday 8th January, 2013 Chances are that you or someone you know has been chained to the bed recently with fever, fatigue, sore throat and muscle aches. That's because the current flu season is turning out to be a ... Tuesday 8th January, 2013...
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Merced Sun-Star
| 5 months ago
Designed for 2,004 beds, officials said, the state prison is at more than 180 percent of intended capacity. Officials said the next most crowded prison is Avenal State Prison, also in the Central Valley, at 171 percent of design capacity. More than a...
