SF News Does California Have a Budget Yet? Short Answer: Yes, but nobody's happy about it. Long Answer: Democrats in the state legislature sent Jerry Brown a budget plan that closed the $9.6 billion gap last night, but it still
SF News California Budget Deficit Slips Below $10 Billion Governor Jerry Brown released a revised version of his budget plan this week, and guess what? We're not doing so bad! Instead of the $25-billion-and-change deficit we had at the beginning of the
SF News Gov. Jerry Brown to State Workers: 'Hug a Republican' After failing to reach a budget deal with Republicans, Governor Jerry Brown unveiled a new tactic today to deal with the Grand Old Party. Namely, hugs. On Tuesday he encouraged state workers to
SF News Gov. Brown Approves Billions in State Budget Cuts Well, we knew this was coming: Jerry Brown slashed somewhere between $7 billion and $10.8 billion* worth of funds from the state budget today, the Chronicle reports from Sacramento. That leaves another
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Gives Jerry Brown the Velvet Hammer on Redevelopment Over at the Chronicle, they're still reminding us of that stupid nickname given to temporary mayor Ed Lee by a middle aged woman from Nevada. What's worse is that it's hiding the story
misc Lots of Top Ramen Used in Tuition Fee Hike Protest Outside Governor Jerry Brown's office in San Francisco today, a union of California community college teachers protested Brown's proposed $10 per unit (or $300 per year) tuition fee hike. That total comes to
SF News Will No One Give Jerry Brown a Present? The Chronicle dug in to a 23-page report from the Fair Political Practices Commission that discloses roughly how much money in stocks and holdings our government officials have and shocker: Gavin Newsom is
SF News State Dems Take Key Vote to Kill Redevelopment, Oakland Scrambles to Tie Up Funds The fight over redevelopment in California is still far from finished, but Democratic lawmakers on a key state legislative committee took a step that could hurry the death knell along yesterday. The conference
SF News KQED Covers the Redevelopment Battle in Sacramento "The California Report" on KQED today takes on the subject of redevelopment and Jerry Brown's plan to eradicate hundreds of redevelopment agencies in the state. We've already wondered if the cuts are going
SF News Gov. Brown Orders State Hiring Freeze For his third executive order since taking office in January, Governor Jerry Brown has ordered all state agencies to "freeze hiring" in an effort to reduce further spending. "We have a $25 billion
SF News Will the Redevelopment Cuts Stand, and Are They Legal? We know most of you are probably not on the edge of your seats waiting to see how Jerry Brown's threats to kill redevelopment in California shake out, but we thought we'd keep
misc Local Photographer Aims to Revive Snarky Book of Jerry Brown Photos Today, a reporter from the Western Nevada County Union (where ever that is) uncovered a quirky, self-published photobook from way back in 1992 titled, 1-800-Call-Jerry - A Hilarious Inside Look at Jerry Brown
SF News Brown's Budget Kills the State's Juvenile Justice System Too Another line item getting nixed in Jerry Brown's proposed budget is the state's Division of Juvenile Justice, potentially saving the state some $242 million but potentially costing some pain at the county level,
SF News And Yes, Moonbeam Redux Nixes Redevelopment As we mentioned last week, redevelopment funds looked to be on the chopping block in Jerry Brown's budget, and it was. The governor is looking to save $2.7 billion by cuttting off
SF News Brown's "Painful" $12.5 Billion Budget Cut Proposal "What I propose will be painful," Governor Jerry Brown said to reporters at the Capitol after unveiling a budget proposal that, among other things, will include an 8 percent to 10 percent cut
SF News Is Jerry Going to Kill Off Redevelopment to Save Education? No doubt, Jerry Brown's got big problems to work out in Sacramento to deal with the state's $28 billion dollar deficit. But word on the street is that he's contemplating ending redevelopment, the
SF News Swearing-In 2011: Jerry Brown, Kamala Harris Looking to distance himself from the (disgraceful?) Schwarzenegger regime via a more celebrity-free inauguration, Jerry Brown's swearing-in today as the 39th Governor of California will be an appropriately mellow affair. Today's 11 a.
SF News Governor-elect Jerry Brown Makes First Appointments Confronting a gargantuan budget deficit, Governor-elect Jerry Brown just made his first appointments before heading into office in January. "Brown today announced his first two appointments, retaining Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's finance director, Ana
SF News Election Night 2010: Calling it for Jerry Brown So the poll results have been coming in since about 8:30 or so, and even though the California Results page is has been down pretty much the whole time, we can say
SF News Brown Maintains Lead Over Whitman According to a Field Poll released today, Democrat Jerry Brown has a strong "double-digit" lead over his Republican opponent, Meg Whitman. "The survey found the former two-term governor leading the former eBay chief
misc Debating Semantics Speaking of Tuesday's Gubernatorial Debate, Joe Garofoli over at the Chron asks, "Is 'whore' as offensive as the n-word?" while wondering why Jerry Brown won't share his thoughts on the difference between the
SF News Meg and Jerry Duke it Out at Final Gubernatorial Debate We might not have gotten that radio debate last week, but it sounds like the boxing match at the final gubernatorial debate in San Rafael last night made for better visuals anyway. According
SF News Brown Still Has Plenty of Money Left in Campaign Coffers; Whitman, Not So Much According to new campaign finance reports, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is swiftly running out of money, while Jerry Brown still has plenty with which to run attack ads between now and November
SF News Gubernatorial Dollar Count While Republican Meg Whitman has spent a jarring $140 million on her campaign, investing $119 million of her own money -- side note: $140 billion and you air that cringe-induclingly bad, "I say
SF News Brown-Whitman Radio Debate Cancelled A radio debate between gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman, which was scheduled for Tuesday at 10 a.m. on the Ronn Owens' show, has been cancelled. La Marinucci reports that the
