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...
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.
California Democrats did something the party hasn't managed to accomplish since 1883 this last November--gaining a supermajority in both houses of the...
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 discussed the controversy surrounding comments made by President Obama on California Attorney General Kamala Harris. Obama had called Harris "...
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...
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...
California Republicans acknowledged this weekend that the party needs to recruit more Hispanic candidates as well as extend an olive branch to Latinos...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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?
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...
A Republican state legislator in California is being criticized by his Democratic opponent for saying at a church conference late last month that gove...
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.
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...