If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu. Political Briefs Top stories  Tax proposals by unions, activists may loosen Brown’s grip on budget — When it comes to California’s roller-coaster finances, Gov. Jerry Brown has bent lawmakers and voters to his will, rejecting new spending programs, passing a […]

If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu. Political Briefs Top stories  Dan Walters: California’s sales tax is obsolete, needs to be fixed — Comprehensive sales tax reform should close at least some of the loopholes in the current system. It makes no sense, for example, to treat […]

If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu. Political Briefs Top stories  Dan Walters: California’s sales tax is obsolete, needs to be fixed — Comprehensive sales tax reform should close at least some of the loopholes in the current system. It makes no sense, for example, to treat […]

Political Briefs Top stories  Legislative Democrats propose broad expansion of child care — Legislative Democrats put forward separate approaches this week to significantly increase spending on child care programs, amid wariness by influential school groups and hostility from the Brown administration. Capitol Alert California lawmakers act to mandate vaccines for day care workers – California […]

Political Briefs Top stories  UC regents endorse Brown’s funding plan, but look to lawmakers for more — The UC regents on Thursday embraced Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal, which would significantly boost funding for the 10-campus system, freeze tuition for in-state undergraduates for two years and require the university system to reform its pension plan […]

If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu. Political Briefs Top stories California physicians end opposition to aid-in-dying bill – The California Medical Assn. on Wednesday withdrew its opposition to a bill allowing physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs for terminally ill patients who want to hasten […]

If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu. Political Briefs Top stories Analyst predicts California revenue will exceed revised budget estimate by $3 billion — The Legislature’s nonpartisan fiscal analyst has issued a far more optimistic view of California’s tax revenue picture than Gov. Jerry Brown, predicting the […]

To receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning, email: ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu Political Briefs Top stories  New forecast shows slight increase in state revenues — With just over a week left in the Legislature’s current special session, lawmakers received an early revenue forecast Monday that shows they have a little more money to work with […]

Political Briefs Top stories  As California withers, federal water bill mired in secrecy — Five months into a new Congress, and deep into a lasting drought, California water legislation still stymies and splits the state’s lawmakers. Draft copies are tightly held, as if stamped Top Secret. Myriad details are in flux. The legislative timing, though […]

Political Briefs Top stories As California withers, federal water bill mired in secrecy — Five months into a new Congress, and deep into a lasting drought, California water legislation still stymies and splits the state’s lawmakers. Draft copies are tightly held, as if stamped Top Secret. Myriad details are in flux. The legislative timing, though […]