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GOP can’t find bridge for troubled water bill

The fate of a bipartisan drought bill passed Tuesday by the U.S. House of Representatives is as cloudy as California skies in recent days. The bill was crafted by GOP congressmen with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., although she opposed the final version.

CA bans wildlife hunting contests

James Poulos December 11, 2014

Wile E. Coyote is smirking. Despite a robust and thriving population, coyotes have just received an unprecedented degree of legal protection from the Golden State. Bringing a longstanding rural tradition to an end, the California Fish and Game Commission cracked

Pelosi pressed for change by Hill Dems

James Poulos December 9, 2014

After a punishing election season, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has begun to face an unusual kind of opposition within her own party. By traditional measures, her status remains high and her position secure. Yet she has attracted frustration

$CA Senate jumps into UC tuition fracas$

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

Covered CA struggles through second enrollment

James Poulos December 4, 2014

Covered California’s huge enrollment numbers boosted the national health care program, the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, during its first year. But the Covered CA health care exchange, the center of the system, has been sneezing through its crucial second open-enrollment period, which

CA deals Indian casino chaos

James Poulos November 27, 2014

Despite generating huge revenues, California’s Indian casino industry has been dealt some questionable hands. Political interests have begun to swirl like a roulette ball around fresh efforts to legalize internet gambling statewide. But voters have been confronted by unpopular plans to expand brick-and-mortar

CalPERS numbers attract fresh scrutiny

James Poulos November 26, 2014

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System looks to see 2015 as another controversial year, especially around four budding controversies. First, attention has focused in recent weeks around the way CalPERS pays its board members and executives. An investigation by the Sacramento Bee

Dems double down on CA for comeback

James Poulos November 25, 2014

Under the still powerful influence of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have turned to the party’s strength in California to see them through the next election cycle and beyond. Despite low popularity ratings nationwide and

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

CA GOP eyes special state Senate election

James Poulos November 21, 2014

Aside from preventing Democrats from again nabbing two-thirds supermajorities in the California Legislature, the Nov. 4 national GOP electoral wave did little to change the political dynamic here. With two years to go before the 2016 elections, Golden State Republicans have gained