Political Stories – Top stories Dan Morain: Jerry Brown plunges ahead on twin tunnels — Jerry Brown is jumping into the deep end, and he’s asking the rest of us to take a leap with him. Morain in Sacramento Bee Gov. Brown forgives more felons in past 6 years than were pardoned in previous 30 — He has granted […]
Political Stories- Top stories Cities, counties plan immigrant legal aid after Trump’s win – Major U.S. cities and counties are beefing up legal services for immigrants to help them fight deportation and avoid fraudulent lawyers in the wake of Donald Trump’s election and his hard-line immigration enforcement promises. AP article Asian American donors are banking on John Chiang […]
Political Stories – Top stories John Myers: The long, cold winter for California’s pension funds is coming — For those who believe that California is in danger of breaking its promise of retirement cash for local and state government workers, this week marks another important milestone in taking stock of the effort to change course. Myers in LA Times Gun […]
Political Stories – Top stories Obama signs water bill; what does it mean for the Delta? – President Barack Obama on Friday signed a massive infrastructure bill designed to control floods, fund dams and deliver more water to farmers in California’s drought-ravaged Central Valley. Obama signed the $12 billion bill in a distinctly low-key act. Controversial provisions […]
Political Stories – Top stories A problem ‘too big to ignore’ – how years of congressional wrangling led to a water compromise — It took years of negotiations, and the right political timing, to bring the first major water policy affecting California in decades through the House and Senate. Over frayed feelings and filibuster threats, both chambers overwhelmingly […]
Guest: James Mayer, President and CEO, CA Fwd; Fred Silva, Senior Fiscal Policy Advisor, CA Fwd; Matt Lege, Research Analyst, SEIU UHW; Cathy Martin, VP of Workforce Policy, California Hospital Association; Cathy Creswell, Housing Policy Specialist, Creswell Consulting, Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin; Pete Weber, co-chair of CalFwd and Director of the Fresno Bridge Academy
Guests: State Senator Fran Pavley, Rob Lapsley, President of California Business Roundtable, Nathan Alonzo Government Relations Manager – Fresno Chamber of Commerce, Danielle Bergstrom, Director of Gov’t Affairs – City of Fresno and Former State Sen. Majority Leader and current California Air Resources Board Member, Dean Flores
Political Stories – Top stories California Democrats got their supermajority. Now what? — Broadening the path to long-sought deals on affordable housing, transportation infrastructure and climate change, California Democrats have again captured a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of the Legislature. Sacramento Bee article; LA Times article Joel Fox: Kevin McCarthy: California’s connection to new Washington power — Election results […]
Guests: Experts from CA’s Legislative Analyst Office: Brian Uhler and Carolyn Chu, Merced Sun Star and Modesto Bee Editorial Board Editor Mike Dunbar, California State Univ., Fresno political science Professor Jeff Cummins and Former Visalia Times Delta Editorial Page Editor Paul Hurley.
Political Stories – Top stories Dan Walters: California’s workers’ compensation overhaul saved bigger bucks — The highly respected Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau, or WCIRB, conducted a comprehensive study of a major overhaul of the system enacted by Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature four years ago. And it found that it did what it was supposed to do […]
