Between San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ripping off his mike this week in an interview and GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman weighing in on the media, we must say: man, some of...edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
Between San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ripping off his mike this week in an interview and GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman weighing in on the media, we must say: man, some of...
As criticism rages this week over whether the Obama administration overstated the number of jobs created by economic stimulus spending, California officials issued a memo Friday giving state...
It didn't take long for California's groundbreaking decision on energy efficient televisions to go national .
One day after the Wednesday decision by the California Energy Commission to limit...
Well, that didn't work out.
The much ballyhooed recall effort against Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Hesperia, died with a whimper today. Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced that of the...
Interesting trend to watch as Palinpalooza wends it's way through America: How Republicans react to her. The ones who want to cuddle up to conservatives and the Tea Par-tayers will sing her...
....nothing. Oh, and you sick freaks thought thought she was going to air something like this ?
The Miss California USA beauty pageant is anything but dull and this year's gig -- on Sunday --...Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman gave an expansive interview to ABC News' Teddy Davis today, covering everything from Sarah Palin to 2010 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown --...
[...] San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom -- seen as unusually elusive since his recent withdrawal from the 2010 Democratic governor's race -- suggested to KCBS radio Thursday that the press is...It looks like newly elected Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, will be joining the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Science and Technology Committee.
The House...[...] Republican U.S. Senate candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is in Washington, D.C. this week, and in a meeting with the news reporters she focused on her Democratic opponent if she...U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has found a friend in John Mack , chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, who's giving a fancy fundraiser for her today in New York.
The event hosted by...
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GOP Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina added another feather to her ever-growing cap of conservative endorsements today: Senator James Inhofe.
That's right -- James M. Inhofe, aka Senator Climate...Democratic 2010 gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown is making tracks for Los Angeles today with two interesting back-to-back campaign events -- one a fundraiser aimed at raking in Hollywood...
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Rep. Jackie Speier took one of the biggest risks of her political career recently -- she agreed to appear on "The Colbert Report" --- and the segment aired last night.
How dangerous can this...
The latest reason Camp Meg Whitman gives for their candidate not debating her GOP guv rivals three times -- as promised -- this fall: Because rival Steve Poizner did not give a "timely response"...[...]
Rep. Mike Honda, chair of the Afghanistan task force of the Progressive Caucus, sent a letter to President Obama with caucus co-chairs Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Marin and Raul Grijalva, D-Az., urging...
In honor of " Teabagger " being named a runner-up for the New Oxford American Dictionary 2009 Word of the Year (OK, so was " tramp stamp "), we pass on word that t-baggers in Virginia have...
California could be facing a $20.7 billion budget deficit next year, according to sources familiar with a report to be released Wednesday morning by the Legislative Analyst's Office.
The number is...
Think before you sip that Russian River Pinot Noir: environmentalists are warning that its production could be contributing to the death of threatened fish species.
That's according to three...
Ayn Rand is back ! A new conservative children's book -- party affiliation is inherited, after all -- titled, " Help! Mom! The radicals are ruining my country!" takes aim at House Speaker Nancy...[...]
Just in time to mess with Attorney General Jerry Brown's world some more, there's a new undercover ACORN video was released Monday night on Fox News' Sean Hannity hootenanny.
But unlike the...
The California Democratic Party just sent a loud message to President Obama, who is pondering the next U.S. move in Afghanistan: Get out.
The state's Dems have gone on record with a Get Out...
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Tom Campbell (you know him, the five-time congressman, former state senator and one-time state finance director) swung through Sacramento Friday and, in between...
Want to repeal California's ban on gay marriage? You now have five chances to get an initiative on the ballot.
Pay attention, 'cause this could get confusing. No less than five initiatives have...
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So after taking a lot of heat from the GOP -- as reported in Monday's Chronicle -- for not appointing an independent investigation into his office's secret recording scandal, Attorney General...Small farms and the sustainable agriculture movement raised alarms today about Senate legislation that they say would stifle family farms with "heavy-handed and costly attempts" to battle...
It's a good thing the activists at SF-based Credo Mobile have never been the shy retiring types, because they know they'll get some serious blowback on this one: They just launched a campaign to...
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Legislators should take a hard look in the mirror before they point fingers over "ballot box budgeting," according to an upcoming report by the Center for Governmental Studies .
The study,...
The last best chance for health reform that can "bend the curve" of soaring costs that are making coverage unaffordable for everyone could be sacrificed to Senate majority leader Harry Reid's...
Gay rights leader and former SF Supervisor Harvey Milk will be one of 13 Californians inducted into the state's Hall of Fame next month , joining a list of luminaries that include civil rights...[...]
The California GOP is hitting Jerry Brown hard over his office's self-investigation into its secret taping scandal -- with a just-released online ad. Just in time for the "New Moon" movie ...
All three GOP gubernatorial candidates are now calling on state AG Jerry Brown -- the 2010 Democratic gubernatorial candidate -- to appoint an independent investigator into the matter of...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is headed to Iraq next week to visit U.S. troops, his office announced today. Details and exact dates haven't been confirmed and likely won't be made public out of...
California is in terrible financial shape, but it's not alone among states in the country, a report published today by the Pew Center on the States has found.
The news is unlikely to quiet the...
Orange County businessman Damon Dunn -- a wealthy former NFL player who has never run for statewide office -- formally kicked off his campaign for California Secretary of State today with...
California AG Jerry Brown's office may have issued its report on ex-spokesman Scott Gerber's secret taping program, but the political blowback has just begun.
Who thought being the only...
The consumer advocacy group which charged state Attorney General Jerry Brown caved into pressure from a major insurance firm in rewriting a ballot measure summary has now called on Brown's...
If you live in San Mateo County and want to be a state legislator, here's your chance.
Well, kind of. Assemblyman Jerry Hill's office announced its second annual "bill idea contest," which...
You may not have given much thought yet to the 2010 California Insurance Commissioner race -- but apparently former VP Al Gore has.
Gore announced Tuesday that he is endorsing San Francisco...
Some of the top liberal bloggers -- Daily Kos , FireDogLake , Dan Savage -- are tired of waiting for President Obama and the Democratic Congress to take major action on gay rights issues. So...
While the health care reform sausage is being cased in Congress, the warring political factions are passing the time by making lists. Specifically, "target lists" of legislators who dared vote the...
Unlike certain other wealthy California Republican candidates who used to play Silicon Valley CEOs on TV -- cough ( Meg Whitman ), cough ( Steve Poizner ) -- US Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina has...[...]
In the triumphant return Monday of Under the Bus -- our political podcast -- we chatted with David Plouffe, the campaign manager of Obama for President. (His book tour will stop at Dominican...
Wow, the US Senate GOP primary race is heating up already and we haven't even done our Thanksgiving shopping yet (E-Day isn't until June!)
Minutes after we told you that Carly Fiorina...
Remember GOP U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina's observation last week that "I can take a punch, and I can throw a punch" in the campaign ring?
Ding!
Round 1 has begun against incumbent...
Pro-choice groups are up in arms over passage of the "Stupak" amendment, by Michigan Democrat Bart Stupack, which would expand a ban on government funded abortions by banning abortion coverage in...
The phone lines to the offices of two Democratic holdouts from the San Joaquin Valley have been tied up all day.
Reps. Jim Costa and Dennis Cardoza have not yet committed to vote for the...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has just declared that health care legislation will pass the House tonight, following President Obama's visit to the House.
"We will be making history with our vote,"...