The National Parks Service has come to the rescue of the highly popular state parks in the Santa Monica Mountains, providing a grant of $939,169 to av...
AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 11.20.2009 | Los Angeles
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Despite multiple attempts to balance California's budget, the state can still expect to confront shortfalls approaching $20...
The Sacramento Bee | Kevin Yamamura | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
After railing against labor unions, waste and fraud in the past, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday found a new target to blame for California's ...
Bloomberg | William Selway and Michael B. Marois | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
California's revenue collections trailed its forecasts by $1.1 billion during the first three months of the fiscal year, showing new deficits are emer...
Bill Mundell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Incredibly, the state of California, the 8th largest economy in the world, doesn't have a complete balance sheet. It's not a question of bankruptcy, taxes, or services, but of redeploying the state's significant assets.
Christine Schanes | Posted 11.02.2009 | Impact
Two videos published on YouTube - one of which has just been aired on television - show what actual HPRP funding means to people in Detroit, Michigan.
Byron Williams | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
With its constitutionally-mandated spending of 60 percent of the state's General Fund, lawmakers in California fight over the remaining 40 percent using a diminishing set of gimmicks to tout a budget deal.
Christine Schanes | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is administering $1.5 billion of its $787 billion stimulus package through the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP).
Matt Sundeen | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver
The "change makes us California" story is intended to scare us, but like many good tales, it's blatantly untrue. Budget reforms will not transform us into the Golden State. Almost the opposite is true.
Aryn Quinn | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
In the past, Governor Schwarzenegger has championed the rights of victims of domestic abuse. But with a single callous act, he has compromised his legacy.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
By blocking any new revenue streams to fund higher education, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Senate Republican minority are not only taxing California's young people and their families, they are crippling the state's future.
AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a revised $85 billion budget Tuesday that he said contained "the good, the bad and the ug...
Tom Gregory | Posted 08.26.2009 | Comedy
Congress has approved the "Cash For Clunkers" Bill. To qualify, drivers must admit to owning a vehicle whose appearance would be improved by an accident.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Austin De Rubira In Miranda Carrow's ...
Chris Kelly | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
We may never go to the moon again, but thanks to last night's California budget compromise, we're going to be drilling off Santa Barbara again. Who says America can't accomplish things anymore?
AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California's legislative leaders agreed Monday on a plan to close the state's $26 billion bu...
AP | STEVE LAWRENCE | Posted 08.18.2009 | Business
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California officials hope to reach a deal Sunday on how to erase a $26.3 billion budget deficit that has forced the state t...
Financial Times | Matthew Garrahan and Lionel Barber | Posted 08.11.2009 | Business
Arnold Schwarzenegger faces the fight of his life. The "Governator", best known for slugging it out in Hollywood blockbusters as an indestructible cyb...
AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 08.11.2009 | Business
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Against a backdrop of IOUs and expanding government furloughs, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders expressed...
AP | Michelle Locke | Posted 08.03.2009 | Business
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Business consultant Katrina Kennedy has taken her young son out of preschool and put a family vacation on hold. Dairyman Mike...
San Jose Mercury News | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business
SACRAMENTO -- In a move certain to draw national ridicule and exact financial hardship on business owners and taxpayers across the state, California i...
Byron Williams | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
For decades, California lawmakers have put off difficult choices, using one-time gimmicks, while claiming balanced budgets. Our state engaged in its own version of a Ponzi scheme.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
Schwarzenegger's brinkmanship might satisfy his ego but it is a terrible blow to California's health and to the national economy.
AP | STEVE LAWRENCE | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lawmakers around the nation spent Tuesday in grueling, around-the-clock budget sessions as they struggled to avoid governme...
AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California faces a $24 billion budget shortfall, an eye-popping amount that dwarfs many states' entire annual spending plan...
Zev Yaroslavsky | Zev Yaroslavsky | Posted 11.23.2009 | Los Angeles