Darrell Steinberg

DEM POWER GRAB: Top CA Politician Pulls For Power Shift In State Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Sacramento Press Club, California Tax Hike, Two-Thirds Vote, Governor Jerry Brown, California Tax Bills, California Propositions, Ca Senate, CA Senate Vote, California State Senate, California Iniatives, Molly Munger, Darrell Steinberg, California Reform, San Francisco News

California State Senate President pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) has a radical idea to reform the legislature--he wants to make it easier to...

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WATCH: State Senators Don Hoodies In Solidarity With Trayvon

The Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 03.29.2012

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A handful of California lawmakers donned gray hooded sweatshirts over their suits and ties at Thursday morning's legislative session. The attire, ...

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State Senator Seeks Free Textbooks For All California College Students

AP | Posted 02.13.2012

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By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The leader of California's Senate wants to offer an electronic library of free basic ...

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Brown Attacks Testing and Data as Measures of School Success

Louis Freedberg | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Standardized Testing, Teacher Evaluations, Darrell Steinberg, Jerry Brown Veto, California Education, Race to the Top, Jerry Brown, San Francisco News

Setting himself apart from other governors, Gov. Jerry Brown has launched an extraordinary broadside against the current national obsession with testing that continues to dominate school reform efforts.

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The Farm Workers and Jerry Brown Make Up, For Now

William Bradley | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Darrell Steinberg, Cesar Chavez, California, Arturo Rodriguez, United Farm Workers, Jerry Brown, Farm Workers, Farm Workers Union, Ufw, California Politics, Unions, Workers Rights, Los Angeles News

The canny Brown negotiated new legislation that allows the UFW some progress without granting its card check goal, thus turning a rally that would otherwise have been a protest of his policies into a muted celebration.

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Bill To Dissolve Vernon Fails Despite City's Massive Corruption Problems

AP | By JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Darrell Steinberg, John Perez Vernon Bill, Vernon Corruption, Vernon Scandal, Vernon Dissolution, Vernon Disincorporation, Los Angeles News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The California Senate voted on Monday against dissolving the troubled Los Angeles-area city of Vernon, hours after the Internal ...

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GOP Presents New List Of Budget Demands To Gov. Brown

The Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Budget Deficit, California Budget, Governor Jerry Brown, California Budget Cuts, Darrell Steinberg, Jerry Brown, Video, Los Angeles News

California Republicans presented a new list of demands to Governor Brown two weeks after his self-imposed deadline for settling the budget deficit pro...

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Honoring Dolores Huerta for a Lifetime of Quiet Courage

Jim Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cesar Chavez, Fiona-Ma, Dolores Huerta, John Perez, Immigrant Rights, Hilda Solis, Kamala Harris, DREAM Act, Jerry Brown, Darrell Steinberg, Los Angeles News

For over 50 years, Dolores' quiet acts of courage have indeed shaped and bent the arc of history in favor working families and progressive politics.

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California Will Again Consider No H8 against Homeless

Joel John Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Violence, 100000 Homes Campaign, Hate Crimes, Bonnie Lowenthal, Homelessness, NO H8, 100, Darrell Steinberg, Jerry Brown, Impact News

The one result that always upsets me is the simple question, "Have you ever encountered personal violence against you since you have been on the streets?"

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Details Emerge On No-Tax California Budget Pact

AP | DON THOMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Budget, California Budget Pact, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Darrell Steinberg, California Taxes, California Tax, California Budget Crisis, John Chiang, California IOU, Los Angeles News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After a record-long impasse, California legislators are set to vote this week on a no-new-taxes budget that relies on a com...

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Struggling States Eye Federal School Funds For Use Outside Classroom

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education Jobs Bill, Education, Texas, Public Schools, State Deficits, California, Lloyd Doggett, Ted Kulongoski, Jobs, Darrell Steinberg, Teachers, Stimulus, Rick Perry, Oregon, Politics News

Crippled by budget deficits, states officials have been eying money in the $26 billion federal jobs bill that's intended for schools. State leaders in...

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Class Warfare Heats Up in California

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

No California governor, not Ronald Reagan, not George Deukmejian, not Pete Wilson, has so bludgeoned the state's employees to the extent Arnold Schwarzenegger has.

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The Mistake of the Mini-Stimulus

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Recovery, Stimulus, Mini Stimulus, States, Darrell Steinberg, California, Politics News

The federal government is both privileged and cursed with the capacity to impact the economy. A federal "jobs bill" that is more reminiscent of a state-level mini-stimulus package would just be election-year white noise.

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California Leaders Turn To Washington For Budget Help

San Francisco Gate | Wyatt Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California State Senate, California Budget Project, California Budget, Senator Darrell Steinberg, California, California Budget Problems, California Budget Deficit, California Budget Crisis, Darrell Steinberg, California Senate, Politics News

California's political leaders, who are facing the daunting challenge of closing an estimated $20.7 billion budget deficit this year, are looking to W...

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Schwarzenegger Bull Testicle Gift Doesn't Go Over Well

LA Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Budget, California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California-Senate-Pro-Tem-Darrell-Steinberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Budget Crisis, Darrell Steinberg, Politics News

As lawmakers wrangled last week over how to plug California's giant deficit, the governor who once called them "girlie men" sent the state Senate lead...

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California's Death Throes: A View From Sacramento

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

A grassroots movement working within Democratic Party structures might break the cycle of abuse the Republican minority has inflicted upon the state.

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California Needs a New Constitution

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Enron, "Kenny Boy" Lay, California Constitutional Convention, Fiscal Crisis, Santa Clara County, California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, Karen Bass, California-Constitution, Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown, California State Government, Paul Krugman, California State Leaders, California Budget Cuts, California Fiscal Crisis, Sacramento, California Budget Crisis, State Capitol, California Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, Darrell Steinberg, Silicon Valley, California, Politics News

If Arnold and the Democrats can waste state money holding failed ballot initiatives and "special elections" they can set aside a little cash for a Constitutional Convention.

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Obama's California: Angst and Irony for Winning Democrats

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Westly, Labor, Karen Bass, Antonio Villaraigosa, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Gavin Newsom, Darrell Steinberg, Gray Davis, Democratic Party, Jerry Brown, Bulworth, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

California Democrats are a lot happier about the elections next year than the one in a few weeks.

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Yet Another California Campaign: Elections Abound In the Arnold Era

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meg Whitman, Steve Westly, John McCain, Dave Cogdill, Leon Panetta, Far Right, Mike Murphy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican Party, Darrell Steinberg, Barack Obama, Bill Simon, California Recall, Dick Riordan, Gray Davis, Politics News

Every other year, including this, has seen the tarnished Golden State holding at least one statewide election. This May 19th it's another special statewide election, the fourth of the Arnold Era.

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Far Right Fury Over California Tax Hikes and Open Primary

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Talk Radio, Bill Bennett, Far Right, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sacramento Karen Bass, Abel Maldonado, Mike Villines, Darrell Steinberg, Jon Fleischman, Republican Party, Los Angeles, John McCain, John & Ken, California, Ronald Reagan, Politics News

Far right leaders see the tax issue and the open primary issue -- in which the two top vote-getters in a primary race, regardless of party ID, would face off in the general election -- as inextricably linked.

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California: The Far Right's Ritual Dance on the Edge of the Cliff

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the Republicans have declined in California, they have become even more conservative. As they become more conservative, they are even less open to compromise.

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California GOP Oust Leader Amid Budget Crisis

AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dave Cogdill, State Senator Dave Cogdill, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Darrell Steinberg, California Budget Crisis, California Budget, California Legislature, Politics News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Chances of a quick resolution to California's budget stalemate appeared to fade Wednesday after Senate Republican holdouts ...

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California Might Legislate To Discourage Urban Sprawl

Los Angeles Times | Margot Roosevelt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Traffic, Reducing Carbon Emissions, California Legislature, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Darrell Steinberg, California, Urban Sprawl, Green News

Will Californians drive less to reduce global warming? Maybe not on our own -- but state officials are ready to nudge us. The Legislature is on the v...

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