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Brown’s budget draws careful criticism

Fresh from his historic inauguration to a fourth term as governor, Jerry Brown unveiled his proposed 2015 budget with a Friday press conference that swiftly attracted reactions from Sacramento and beyond. All told, Brown envisions a general fund totaling $113.3 billion.

Buzz returns for Elon Musk’s Hyperloop

James Poulos December 24, 2014

Silicon Valley impresario Elon Musk’s Hyperloop transportation concept is back in the news. With a price tag that seemed daunting, especially when Musk warned he lacked the time to pursue the project, when it was advanced a year ago Hyperloop achieved little

$CA Senate jumps into UC tuition fracas$

CA Senate jumps into UC tuition fracas

James Poulos December 9, 2014

Maybe kids and their parents won’t have to pay higher University of California tuition. Last month, Gov. Jerry Brown tried to reverse UC President Janet Napolitano’s 25 percent tuition hike over five years. But she outmaneuvered him at a Board of Regents

If CA can’t build bridge, what about bullet train through mountains?

Chris Reed December 8, 2014

If the state of California can’t build a bridge, how can it handle the huge technological and engineering challenge of building a bullet train through two mountain ranges laced with seismic faults? Such questions are inevitable after the latest Sacramento Bee

Under fire, Feinstein’s water bill collapses

James Poulos November 25, 2014

It has been an uncharacteristically bad week for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. First, her quiet effort to engineer a substantial drought relief bill for California washed out to sea. After working all year with Republicans for a compromise, this week Feinstein encountered

Pension crisis divides CA Dems on UC tuition hikes

James Poulos November 20, 2014

A 14-7 vote Thursday by the full University of California Board of Regents made it official: Golden State Democrats are deeply divided on tuition increases, thanks to the intractable politics of underfunded pensions. On one side are Democrats who favored the increases, including UC President Janet Napolitano,

Brown steers clear of Dems as election nears

James Poulos October 10, 2014

State Democrats haven’t had much luck in securing the biggest show of support in California — Gov. Jerry Brown. As he gears up for the final stretch of his bid for an unprecedented fourth term in office, Brown has chosen to

Brown struggles to hit education stride

James Poulos October 3, 2014

With education becoming a major state issue just in time for the election, Gov. Jerry Brown has found himself in an uncharacteristic position. The often unflappable governor, who has prided himself on following the beat of his own drum, has

Brown fuels incentives for alt-energy cars

James Poulos September 25, 2014

Convinced carbon emissions pose an “existential threat” to the human race, Gov. Jerry Brown just signed a set of bills designed to push ahead an environmental agenda dependent on automobiles that don’t run on gas. Among other new rules, regulations and programs, the new

Brown signs defense industry tax break with hidden Tesla perk

John July 11, 2014

Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Thursday a special $420 million corporate tax break for defense contractor Lockheed Martin. If that wasn’t controversial enough, now word has surfaced that the bill also included a hidden perk for electric auto maker Tesla