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Aaron Sankin

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 05.16.2013 | San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- The late rapper Notorious B.I.G. may have been have hailed from New York, but his immortal maxim, "mo' money, mo' problems" has surfa...

My Mother's Day Wish

Sen. Kevin de León | Posted 05.10.2013 | Los Angeles
Sen. Kevin de León

Domestic workers deserve the basic worker protections that most of us -- from legislators to store clerks -- take for granted. They do important work, though it's largely invisible.

Early Learning on Speaker Pérez's Budget To-Do List

Catherine Atkin | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics
Catherine Atkin

With California's economy rebounding and the state budget stabilizing, we now face a critical choice about how to invest in our future.

Does This Trend Mean Doom For The GOP?

Aaron Sankin | Posted 04.23.2013 | San Francisco

California Democrats did something the party hasn't managed to accomplish since 1883 this last November--gaining a supermajority in both houses of the...

Punishing Prisoners By Race In California

ProPublica | Christie Thompson | Posted 04.15.2013 | Latino Voices

In several men's prisons across California, colored signs hang above cell doors: blue for black inmates, white for white, red, green or pink for Hispa...

Arianna Talks Obama's Kamala Harris Comments On ABC's 'This Week'

Posted 04.07.2013 | Politics

Arianna discussed the controversy surrounding comments made by President Obama on California Attorney General Kamala Harris. Obama had called Harris "...

Former Ethics Chief Cracks Down On California Lawmakers

The Sacramento Bee | Torey Van Oot | Posted 03.25.2013 | San Francisco

The concept of banning California lawmakers from fundraising while they're at work has a new cheerleader: a former head of the state's political watch...

How California Republicans Can Win Over Latinos

VOXXI | Tony Castro | Posted 03.20.2013 | Latino Voices

With California’s Republican state convention recently behind us, a big GOP mover and shaker took me out for drinks and wanted to know what I though...

'Go Hispanic Or Die'

VOXXI | Tony Castro | Posted 03.04.2013 | Latino Voices

California Republicans acknowledged this weekend that the party needs to recruit more Hispanic candidates as well as extend an olive branch to Latinos...

Sequestration Zzzzzzz -- Californians Have Seen This Movie

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.26.2013 | Politics
Joseph A. Palermo

When fiscal crises become the "new normal" the public begins to remember that they elected politicians to do a job. And part of their job description is to take care of the public purse and not to create problems where none exist.

Flaccid Filibuster Reform Throws a Wet Blanket on 'Audacity'

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.26.2013 | Politics
Joseph A. Palermo

Harry Reid talked a big game about taking apart the filibuster leading up to his Grand Bargain with Mitch McConnell. The Kentucky senator now promises to play nice. But like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown, he has once again snookered the hapless Majority Leader.

Initial Response to the Governor's Budget

Judy Patrick | Posted 03.13.2013 | Los Angeles
Judy Patrick

Yesterday, Gov. Brown released his budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year. We believe that our State budget is a statement of what we value and it is our job to ensure these values are preserved and enhanced.

Health Group Unites Labor Groups

Steve Early | Posted 03.10.2013 | Politics
Steve Early

Two of the biggest U.S. strikes in the last 16 months were conducted by members of the California Nurses Association (CNA) and the National Union of H...

Orly Taitz Pleads For Help ... Again

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 12.12.2012 | Politics

Birther queen Orly Taitz issued a plea Wednesday on her website for help finding a court reporter who transcribed a California hearing and for money s...

Bloomberg Knockout Sends Tough Message On Controversial Debate

Sacramento Bee | Posted 12.02.2012 | Politics

Joe Baca never saw it coming, and neither did Gloria Negrete McLeod. But as state Sen. Negrete McLeod replaces Baca in Congress, the dueling San Be...

Kudos to California Governor Jerry Brown

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.14.2013 | Politics
Joseph A. Palermo

Gov. Jerry Brown might be a septuagenarian, but his vision and forward thinking are decades younger in spirit and idealism than anything caustic right-wingers have to offer.

John Celock

Richard Boylan, Star Kids Project President, Declines California School Board Seat After Victory

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.12.2012 | Politics

A man who has argued that aliens are interacting with human's reproductive systems in order to produce advanced children has declined to take a seat h...

'L' Is For Loser

| Posted 11.09.2012 | Los Angeles

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Lance Williams Multimillionaire activists, big labor unions and major corporations combined to...

GMOs in Food: Better Safe -- Or, at Least, Informed -- Than Sorry? (Or, Vote 'Yes' on California Proposition 37)

Steve Heilig | Posted 01.06.2013 | Home
Steve Heilig

At this point, it's almost as much a philosophical decision as a scientific one.

Proposition 30 Puts California's Children First

Teach Plus | Posted 01.06.2013 | Home
Teach Plus

Will we choose to ensure our children get the education they deserve and invest in California's economic future? Or will we retreat from our commitment to each other and allow the worst cuts to education that our state has ever seen?

Mervyn Dymally Honored During Memorial Service

AP | Posted 10.18.2012 | Black Voices

LOS ANGELES -- Mervyn Dymally, who in a four-decade career served in every corner of California government and eventually became the state's highest-r...

Republican Legislator's Shocking Statement

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 10.16.2012 | Politics

A Republican state legislator in California is being criticized by his Democratic opponent for saying at a church conference late last month that gove...

Get Up, Stand Up: Overcoming Election-Induced 'PTSD'

Cheryl Dumesnil | Posted 12.15.2012 | Gay Voices
Cheryl Dumesnil

In the four years since Prop 8, I have shown all the signs of a sort of election-induced "PTSD." I don't want to hear the rhetoric. I don't want to see the debates. I don't want to follow the polls. I don't even want to watch The Daily Show. It's that bad.

White Supremacist-Environmentalist Seeks Congressional Seat

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 10.09.2012 | Politics

Daniel Johnson, a white supremacist with ties to Rep. Ron Paul, is running for an open congressional seat in Michigan as the candidate of a minor poli...

Are Monsanto's Fingerprints on This Op-Ed Signed by a UC Davis Professor?

Michele Simon | Posted 12.05.2012 | Green
Michele Simon

Conflict of interest explains in part why we are seeing several UC Davis professors author reports and op-eds opposing California's Proposition 37.