Support for Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax package in a potential special election continues to be mired below 50% of likely voters, according to a new poll, which is likely to further embolden Democrats and their labor allies who have called on the governor to abandon his pursuit of a public referendum.
Gov. Jerry Brown enjoys strong support for his Solomon-like approach to closing the state's budget deficit, a mixture of spending cuts and tax extensions that would require voter approval, a new Public Policy Institute of California poll has found.
A California business group's perennial list of bills it dubs "job killers" used to be a signal for legislation that was unlikely to survive former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto pen, but the package of legislation promoted by Democrats could fare better under the new administration of Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat.
The Supreme Court’s order to California to ease overcrowding in the state’s prisons, by releasing tens of thousands of inmates if no other solution can be found, will probably aid Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to move more inmates from state prisons to county jails.
Gov. Brown is proposing that the state give CalPERS $1.5 million to identify and study alternatives for a “hybrid” retirement plan, a cost-cutting combination of pensions and 401(k)-style individual investment plans.
The revised budget Gov. Jerry Brown released Monday does not seem any more likely to win Republican votes than the governor’s original plan, which stalled in the Legislature over the question of whether to extend billions of dollars in expiring taxes.
A California lawmaker has called for an investigation into the Brown administration's decision to pay the head of the state Department of Social Services a compensation package worth $343,000 a year.
Gov. Jerry Brown says he can save taxpayers millions by downsizing government. Just don’t expect to get the state budget balanced on the back of the California Commercial Sea Urchin Advisory Committee, one of 43 boards, commissions and other entities targeted for elimination in the governor’s revised budget yesterday.
Days before his updated budget is set to be released, Gov. Jerry Brown announced a proposal to consolidate pieces of the bureaucracy that he said would save “millions of taxpayer dollars.” But it would do nothing to impact some generous, long-term appointments doled out by his predecessors.
Even if Gov. Jerry Brown doesn’t succeed in shutting down California’s redevelopment agencies, hardly a sure thing, he might usefully turn his attention to the state’s costly tangle of special districts.
