California Legislature rejects many of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget cuts as negotiations continue
The California Legislature on Thursday rejected many of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s most difficult budget cuts, choosing instead to speed-up a temporary tax increase on some businesses to help address an estimated $45 billion deficit while preserving spending on many social safety net programs.
Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fight
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessories used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in a ruling that threw firearms back into the nation’s political spotlight.
CA Ballot Measure Would Put More Thieves, Drug Users In Jail: State
Voters in November are set to decide whether California should more aggressively prosecute shoplifting and drug use as part of a ballot measure that state officials say will result in more people ending up in prison.
Veteran Republican congressman’s reign in Riverside County under siege
For decades, Rep. Ken Calvert, 71, presided comfortably over this corner of the Inland Empire.
How did a shoplifting bill get through California’s liberal Assembly with most Democrats opposed?
Assemblymember Ash Kalra did something exceptional last week.
He was the only legislator to vote “no” on a controversial piece of legislation while nearly half of the 80 members in the state Assembly – and a majority of the Democrats – did not vote.
