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  • A federal judicial panel on Thursday denied Gov. Jerry Brown's request to lift a court-ordered prison population cap and threatened him and other state officials with contempt of court if they fail to comply.
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  • Half-dozen water agencies have cast their lot with environmental groups in calling on California to study a scaled-down alternative.
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  • Governor Jerry Brown delivered his state of the state address Thursday, declaring California has done the impossible by balancing the budget.
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  • Brown urged the Legislature to rein in its temptation to add burdensome regulations and to practice fiscal restraint
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  • Money in a cash register
  • From new rules on the road to a statewide sales tax increase, a slew of new laws will affect Californians starting January 1st.
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  • Governor Brown expects to keep a full schedule as he battles prostate cancer.
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  • Governor Brown announced in a press release that he is undergoing treatment for localized prostate cancer.
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  • Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have let judges declare that some California children have more than two legal parents.
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  • Parents who don't have their children vaccinated will have to get a waiver from the doctor's office before enrolling their children in school under a new California law.
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  • New law allows voters to register on election day
  • A bill allowing Californians to register to vote up to and including election day has some people concerned about voter fraud.
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  • Gov. Jerry Brown signed a measure on Friday that gives the commercial space travel industry a boost in the state.
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  • Prop 30 would hike the sales tax by a quarter of a cent and impose an income tax increase of up to 2 per cent on the state's highest wage earners, earning from 250 thousand to a million dollars a year.
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  • California is not complying quickly enough with a court order to relieve prison overcrowding.
  • California is not complying quickly enough with a court order to relieve prison overcrowding.
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  • Some of California's state employees will see their next paychecks reflect a pay cut of nearly 5 percent.
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  • A bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown this month cracks down on medi-spas starting Jan. 1.
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  • Governor Jerry Brown is expected to make an announcement this week, about plans to make a massive twin tunnel water system.
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  • Governor Jerry Brown has signed the transportation bill that provides funding for the first phase of construction on California's High Speed Rail project.
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  • Governor Brown made sure Proposition 30 is the first thing on the ballot. It calls for temporary increases in sales and income taxes.
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  • Supporting higher taxes: a Valley sheriff is one of many faces behind the governor's tax plan in a new ad.
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  • California State Universities are facing a tough choice - to either raise tuition or shrink enrollment.
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  • Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that says sending texts through voice recognition is okay as long as it is hands free.
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  • A judge denied a request from a competing tax campaign that allows the governor's tax initiative to get top billing on the November ballot.
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  • Democratic lawmakers approved a state budget, but the issue is far from resolved. Republicans call the plan incomplete.
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  • A state panel approves a 5 percent pay cut for Gov. Jerry Brown, state lawmakers and other elected state officials.
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  • California's nonpartisan legislative analyst says Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to close the state's $15.7 billion deficit is reasonable.
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  • California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday proposed more than $8 billion in cuts to close a widening California budget deficit.
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  • Gov. Jerry Brown says his administration has found more than 700 unnecessary state reports as a result of a cost-cutting review he ordered last year.
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  • Thousands of people want Jerry Brown to stop putting shelter pets on death row after three days.
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  • Victims' rights groups are outraged that Gov. Jerry Brown is allowing more convicted murderers to be paroled than previous governors.
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  • Governor Brown's tax initiative faces competition from teachers and parents who want more funding for public schools.
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  • State labor unions are threatening to withhold support of a tax initiative unless a pension-reform proposal changes.
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  • The governor is trying to delay a decision that could bring more water to Valley farms.
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  • Governor Jerry Brown addressed several issues that directly impact the Valley during his State of the State address Wednesday morning.
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  • Gov. Jerry Brown gave Californians a choice between higher taxes and deeper cuts to public schools and government functions.
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  • The proposed state budget poses a serious threat to school busses, which could affect thousands of children all over the Central Valley.
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  • Fresno Unified says it's planning for a worst case scenario when it comes to Governor Jerry Brown's new budget plan.
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  • Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor is giving a less-optimistic projection of tax revenue than the one contained in Governor Jerry Brown's $92-billion proposal for the coming fiscal year.
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  • One lawmaker calls the high-speed rail project a lemon and voters may get the chance to take away the bond money.
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  • Dozens turned out for a rally Tuesday in Downtown Fresno to protest proposed cuts in Governor Jerry Brown's newly-released budget.
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  • Governor Jerry Brown Thursday unveiled a new budget calling for big cuts in programs for the state's poorest families.
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  • When Governor Jerry Brown proposed cutting $92 million earmarked to open the Fresno veterans home next year he started a war with Valley vets.
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  • The California Legislature started this new year with the problems that didn't get solved in 2011.
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  • A Clemency request for the convicted child killer in Southern California is sitting in the governor's office on Tuesday. The grandmother of eight-year-old Adam Carbajal, a shaken baby, says she'll do whatever she can to stop that filing.
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  • California Governor Jerry Brown
  • Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday that he is working to win support from business and labor leaders for his plan to ask voters to raise income taxes on high-income earners.
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  • The United Nations' top climate official has lauded California's efforts to help mitigate global warming but said the state needs to more quickly adapt to its risks.
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  • The impact of those so-called budget trigger cuts will hit the state's community colleges pretty hard.
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  • California automatic cuts will take a total of $1 billion to education, colleges, and disabled services.
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  • Gov. Jerry Brown says California needs to make about $1 billion in midyear cuts to schools and social services.
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  • Lawmakers gaveled themselves into their winter session with huge budget issues already hanging over their heads.
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  • Gov. Jerry Brown says he is filing a ballot initiative to ask California voters to increase taxes on themselves to generate more money for schools and public safety.
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