Dear Governor Schwarzenegger: California is faced with economic catastrophe. Only new sources of untapped revenue (with corresponding reduction in e...
The New York Times | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
In Hawaii, state employees are bracing for furloughs of three days a month over the next two years, the equivalent of a 14 percent pay cut. In Idaho, ...
AP | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plane has been diverted to the Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley becaus...
LA Times | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
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...
Byron Williams | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Single mothers living below the poverty line do not need additional help. Libraries and school lunches are a waste of the public's resources. And low income students, you're out too. Deal with it.
LA Times | Maura Dolan | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today told a federal court in San Francisco that the state does not dispute that Proposition 8 may violate the federal Cons...
Dan Sweeney | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
My weekly newspaper columns are usually about local issues, but as this week's column had a national bent, I figured I'd post it here for all of you H...
The Huffington Post | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
California's government is 50 days away from a financial "meltdown" if Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers fail to close the $24.3 billion bu...
John Koch | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living
Ms. Brier is at the cutting-edge of K-6 education, described as "exceptional" by parents. There was just one problem. She had just received her pink slip by the LA Unified School District.
Phil Trounstine | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Seldom in California's history has there been an election with stakes as high for the people of the state. Candidates who seek to lead the Golden State will be facing angry voters.
Los Angeles Times | Michael Rothfeld | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today that he would like to see such "radical" proposals come out of a commission now studying an overhaul of the stat...
George Mitrovich | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
How could California, the most populous and wealthiest state in the union, be reduced to such pathetic circumstances? It would be wrong to blame Arnold and only Arnold for what's happened. This is a collective failure.
wowOwow | Leslie Stahl | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living
LESLEY STAHL: Arianna Huffington, thank you. Welcome to wowOwow. You're the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post; you've written 12 b...
Mike Farrell | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
Leadership, Governor Schwarzenegger, means doing the right thing: serving people, not victimizing them.
Patt Morrison | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
What else can California do to yank itself back from the brink, before it hits bottom and finds itself looking up to that perennial last-on-the-list state, Mississippi?
Gov. David A. Paterson | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
If we are to finance and build a world-class infrastructure for America, we must seek new solutions. And a promising solution is at hand: public-private partnerships.
Joel Bridgeman | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
Governor Schwarzenegger must be trying to live up to his image as the "Terminator". His proposed solution to handle California's fiscal mess is to cu...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
With the departure of Crist and Huntsman from the national scene, the time is right for an adult to begin start the process of righting the GOP's ship.
Sacramento Bee | Jon Ortiz | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
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William Bradley | Posted 07.01.2009 | Entertainment
Is the era of the dark comic book movie fable coming to an end? Or is it more a matter of a spate of seemingly underperforming dark would-be blockbusters?
nytimes.com | JENNIFER STEINHAUER | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics
In a special election on May 19, voters rejected a batch of measures on increasing taxes, borrowing funds and reapportioning state money that were des...
AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts could mean the closing of up to 220 state parks, among them the home of the world'...
Peter Clothier | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
Friends, we have brought this on ourselves. We have allowed greed and prejudice to substitute for reason and sane policy.
Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
Arnold Schwarzenegger poked fun at Rush Limbaugh's hefty stature on CNN Wednesday. When the California governor was asked if he thought Limbaugh is...
Bennet Kelley | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
What today's Republicans ignore is that while Reagan talked the conservative talk, he governed as a pragmatist.
Gary S. Wolfe | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics