Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu Political Briefs Top stories  State lawmakers beat budget deadline, but no deal yet with governor – If there is one narrative that Democrats in the California Legislature are working hard to kill, it’s that […]

Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu Political Briefs Top stories  Lawmakers take up $117.5 billion budget without governor’s support — California lawmakers are scheduled to vote on a Democratic spending plan for the next fiscal year but they still have […]

Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu Political Briefs Top stories  Dan Walters: California’s Capitol is isolated island with two tribes — Anthropologists probe the evolution of primitive societies, which makes the Capitol a perfect laboratory. It’s an isolated island occupied […]

Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu Political Briefs Top stories  Brown, lawmakers continue budget talks ahead of deadline — California lawmakers have scheduled a vote Monday on a $117.5 billion spending plan that increases social spending for the poor even […]

Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu Political Briefs Top stories  John Myers: We ask California legislators: Do you help draft bills for influential groups? — Multiple state Capitol sources will confirm, quite comfortably as long as they aren’t on the […]

Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu Political Briefs  Top stories  Monday’s budget will reflect Legislature’s priorities, not deal with Brown — Lawmakers will pass a budget bill by Monday’s constitutional deadline but, unlike last year, it won’t be something that […]

Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu Political Briefs Top stories  Major issues remain as California budget deadline nears — Gov. Jerry Brown and his fellow Democrats in the Legislature continue to negotiate on several items in the California state budget […]

Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu Political Briefs Top stories  Democrats push spending plan that relies on higher revenues — With California’s budget deadline a week away, Democratic state lawmakers are using higher revenue estimates to bolster their argument for […]

Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu Political Briefs Top stories  George Skelton: Bills that should live and bills that should die — Last week’s flurry of activity was about meeting the June 5 deadline for bills to pass their house […]

Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu Political Briefs  Top stories  Marijuana fact-finding tour the new political field trip — The fact that top officials even made the trek is a sign of how California’s 50,000-plus cannabis farmers are already becoming […]