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California Attorney General Jerry Brown has a fabulous career ahead of him as a public relations consultant or media critic, if this whole governor thing doesn't work out.
Terry Gardner | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
For months (if not years) we've been reading that the State of California is broke. Here are two possible solutions.
Peter Scheer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
Attorney General Jerry Brown's spokesman was unceremoniously "disappeared" from Brown's incipient campaign this week because of a lapse in judgment that, quite frankly, has been grossly overblown.
Mira Veda | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Perhaps, in a few years when he's proven he has the character everyone admired in him in the first place he can jump into another race in politics.
Jerry Brown | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
In my book, there's nothing 'quaint' about corporate fraud or ripping off pension funds. So, I'll continue to bring the high-priced rip-off artists like State Street Bank to justice, regardless of CNBC sneers.
Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
Yesterday, California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced an enormous, $200 million lawsuit against Boston-based State Street Bank. But, when Brown...
Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
Citing "unconscionable fraud," California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced a major lawsuit today against State Street Bank and Trust. Brown seek...
William Bradley | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
California's next governor is likely someone who's already won a landslide election as governor, albeit 30 years ago. That's Jerry Brown, who won his latest landslide for Attorney General in 2006.
Peter Dreier | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Business as usual for Hemsley and UnitedHealth is a chronic pattern of abuse and neglect of its policy-holders, along with a powerful political influence-peddling operation that involves costly campaign contributions.
The Observer | Paul Harris | Posted 10.03.2009 | Business
California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and...
Wilshire and Washington | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen are endorsing Jerry Brown's gubernatorial bid and will be co-hosting a fundr...
AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Attorney General Jerry Brown has taken the first step toward running for governor, filing official paperwork with the Secretary o...
Michael Sigman | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
Corporations are dictatorships, with everyone reporting to the CEO. Governments are vast cooperative bodies with legislatures, courts and other institutions without which executives can't get much done.
Jerry Brown | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business
Some called Beverly Hills financial adviser Stanley Chais an investment wizard, but in reality he was nothing more than a glorified middleman, channeling hundreds of millions of dollars in investors' funds to Bernie Madoff in New York.
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business
California AG Jerry Brown joins the ranks of Attorneys General to scrutinize the disastrous role the credit rating agencies played in the financial cr...
William Bradley | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
This week, a few organizations championing same-sex marriage will announce their opinions as to whether to try to reverse Prop 8 in 2010 or 2012.
Paul Hogarth | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Last Friday at 5:00 p.m. (which he's apt to do when releasing bad news), San Francisco Mayor Newsom vetoed three pro-tenant ordinances designed to help renters facing hard times.
Phil Trounstine | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
The latest survey finds Jerry Brown leading Gavin Newsom in a two-way race for the 2010 Democratic nomination for governor 46-to-26 percent.
ProPublica | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
The case is a window into the fractured and often ineffective oversight of nonprofits.
Matt Littman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
The next leader of our state should be so lucky as to be caught picking up a prostitute -- that appears to be a better career path than the dead-end job of Governor of California.
William Bradley | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
The California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition 8 is all the more tragic in that the initiative never should have passed in the first place.
William Bradley | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
Obama announced Tuesday that he is making California's standard for greater vehicle fuel efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions the new national standard.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
If I had to boil down popular sentiment into a per curiam opinion, LOTS OF YOU want to drag Al Gore away from his family and environmental work back into public life as a Supreme Court Justice.
William Bradley | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
California Democrats are a lot happier about the elections next year than the one in a few weeks.
Phil Trounstine | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
By Phil Trounstine and Jerry Roberts Calbuzz.com Bottom line on the California Democratic Party convention: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made th...
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Phil Trounstine | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics