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Spending could tempt supermajority Democrats
Spending could tempt supermajority Democrats. (AP image) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – With supermajorities in both houses of the California Legislature, voters have given Democrats a historic opportunity...
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California offered as national mental health model
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The leader of the state Senate says California’s approach to treating mental illness should serve as a national model in response to last week’s massacre of schoolchildren in...
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Calif. lawmakers consider range of gun controls
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are promising to move cautiously as they consider tighter restrictions on handguns, assault rifles and ammunition purchases. The proposals would add to...
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California Senate takes rare field trip to SoCal
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) – Most of California’s state Senate took part Tuesday in a rare and possibly unprecedented educational field trip. More than two dozen of the state’s 40 senators headed south...
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Calif. bill would permit online courses for credit
LOS ANGELES (AP) – California would allow private, online education companies to offer courses for credit at state colleges and universities, under a bill introduced Wednesday in the state Legislature....
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Brown sees tough path for environmental law reform
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown says he sees little support in the Legislature for overhauling California’s landmark environmental protection law, a comment that surprised the leader of...
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Calif. Dems advance wide-ranging gun control bills
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers took their first step toward moving a package of gun control bills Tuesday, following tough firearm and ammunition restrictions enacted in several other...
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Calif. environmental changes could aid Kings bid
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The leader of the California Senate says changes he is seeking to the state’s environmental-protection law could help Sacramento’s effort to keep its professional basketball...
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Calif. Senate passes $96.3B Democratic budget
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Legislature began passing California’s massive state spending plan Friday amid sharp divisions over whether the compromise struck by Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown will...
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Senate leader takes over with Brown, Newsom gone
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is California’s acting governor, with the state’s two top chief executives out of state over the holiday weekend. The Sacramento...
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Lawmakers approve bill to aid Sacramento NBA arena
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Attempts to overhaul California’s landmark environmental law are expected to continue next year after the Legislature passed a narrow measure that focuses on assisting the...
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Brown vetoes bill banning semi-automatic rifles
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have banned future sales of most semi-automatic rifles that accept detachable magazines, part of a firearms package approved by...
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Scandals plague Democrats in California capital
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — So far in 2014, each month has brought news of another arrest or conviction of a Democratic California state senator. The latest was Wednesday’s arrest of Sen. Leland Yee of...
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California to have 4 governors in 4 days next week
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — How many governors does it take to run the state of California? Next week, the answer’s four. Three different acting governors will fill in for Gov. Jerry Brown when the...
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