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 Stories Top stories  Following petroleum defeat, Jerry Brown’s air board flexes muscle on climate — Earlier this month, when a legislative effort to reduce petroleum use in motor vehicles fell apart, Gov. Jerry Brown […]

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 Stories Top stories Push to nix California vaccine law enters crucial stretch — Signed into law this June after a ferocious political fight, Senate Bill 277 requires that children – unless they have a […]

Political Stories Top stories Jerry Brown signs post-redevelopment bill – Four years after approving legislation that ended the anti-blight redevelopment program in California, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill giving local agencies a way to pay for similar projects. Assembly Bill 2, by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, authorizes local governments in economically depressed areas to […]

Political Stories Top stories Another Prop 30 income tax increase now aiming for 2016 — A group of health and youth advocates on Monday introduced a ballot initiative to expand and make permanent the Proposition 30 income tax increases on the state’s highest earners. Sacramento Bee article; LA Times article Dan Walters: California Democrats are facing civil wars […]

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 Stories Top stories California GOP softens on immigration, but will message get drowned out? — The California Republican Party’s adoption of a more moderate plank on immigration Sunday marked a step forward in 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 Stories Top stories California Republicans softening platform on immigration — In its latest attempt to heal political divisions with Latinos, the California Republican Party is moving to alter its platform on immigration and social […]

Political Stories Top stories John Myers: For California Republicans, stakes in 2016 are high — As the Grand Old Party in the nation’s most populous state gather for their biannual convention, two decades worth of culture wars seem to have migrated to the national stage — a danger, say some, for the California faithful. Myers in KQED […]

Political Stories Top stories State panel outlaw ‘dark money’ in California political campaigns — The state’s campaign finance watchdog agency on Thursday adopted new requirements that nonprofit groups that contribute through a federal political action committee to support or oppose ballot measures or candidates in California must disclose their donors. LA Times article Public employee unions push bill […]

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 Stories Top stories California farm drainage deal faces Capitol Hill currents — A Congress that has stumbled over a California water bill amid record drought now faces a challenging new fight over irrigation drainage. But this […]

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 Stories Top stories New initiative would end California death penalty — Already on life support, California’s death penalty would be abolished entirely under a proposed ballot initiative. The proposal would strike death as a […]