California has eight statewide elected officials, which is almost 1 ½ times the national average. The Golden State’s FY 2014 budget allots over $2.7 billion
In November 1990, California voters imposed term limits on their state-level elected officials in the form of Proposition 140, which received 52% support. In June
Between Aug. 27 and Sept. 27, the Hoover Institution’s Golden State Poll – a partnership between Hoover and the online polling firm YouGov – surveyed
California’s State Legislature is now on interim recess until January. In its absence, the “Sacramento Spotlight” will shine on something different: not bills, but good
“A tremendous achievement.” “Ho-hum, another on-time balanced budget.” These quotes, the first from Assembly Speaker John Perez and the second from Senate President Pro Tempore
“Paper or plastic?” Or, if you are shopping in California in the near future: “E. Coli cloth or E. Coli compostable?” More than 60 cities
California currently has about 50,000 producing oil and gas wells scattered throughout the state, of which about 750 (or 1.5%) use hydraulic fracturing – “fracking”,
Following the passage of Proposition 30, California has the highest capital gains tax rate in the nation (13.3% for California; 33% state and federal combined)
California, the home of two Republican Presidential libraries, continues to become a liberal safe haven. In former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new biography, he writes that