Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a 60-year-old Democrat and one of the most prominent Latino politicians, gets asked a lot about his future these days. After eight years of leading the second-largest city, Villaraigosa must leave office at the end...
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Villaraigosa Mum as L.A. Term Closes
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A same-sex couple during a sit-in protest after same-sex couples were denied marriage licenses from the San Francisco county clerk on Feb. 14, 2013.
Democratic Chair to Supporters: Get Obama’s ‘Back’ on Gay Marriage
So far, President Barack Obama has gone little further than voicing his own personal support for same-sex marriage, although the platform he gave it in his second inaugural address was significant. Impending arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court over the...
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Gavin Newsom, lieutenant governor of California, is pitching a new book.
@GavinNewsom: Jerry Brown Watch
“Government should be as smart as Google,” Gavin Newsom said Friday at a party to celebrate the release of his book “Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government.” The fete brought the Democratic lieutenant governor of...
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Jerry Brown, governor of California, in Sacramento, California.
Jerry Brown: Rick Perry’s Radio Ads ‘Barely’ (Ahem, Register) in California
Gov. Jerry Brown isn’t worried about the miniscule amount of money that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is spending on radio ads airing in California urging companies there to leave for the Lone Star state. The 30-second ad features Perry knocking...
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Panetta: `Different Set of Nuts’
Leon Panetta, the retiring secretary of defense, will be returning home to California. The one-time chief of staff for former President Bill Clinton and former member of Congress knows Washington well. Panetta’s also a farmer of walnuts back home. And...
Read more »Tech Helps Give West Best U.S. Job Growth
Gary Schlossberg, an economist at Wells Fargo in San Francisco, doesn’t have to look far to see how the innovation and entrepreneurship in California are helping the West lead the nation’s job growth. “Tech certainly is a driver,” Schlossberg said...
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President Barack Obama shown in Times Square in New York.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 242
That’s the number of electoral votes in the states that Democrats have won in six straight presidential elections. The tally includes 18 states and the District of Columbia. The total of 242 electoral votes is just 28 below the 270...
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California Citizens Redistricting Commission member Vincent Barabba, left, watches as Secretary of State Debra Bowen certifies one of the new legislative and congressional maps in Sacramento, Calif., in this file photo.
Grading California’s Congressional Map
The California congressional district map used for the Nov. 6 election was the first crafted by an independent redistricting commission. The idea was to draw more compact and competitive districts than the map it is superseding, a document drawn by partisan...
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A Bushmaster Firearms rep, right, shows an attendee a semi-auotmatic Bushmaster Enhanced Adaptive Combat Rifle (ACR) at the Bushmaster Firearms booth at the National Shooting Sports Foundation's 34th annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show.
Guns and Private Equity – Cerberus: Teacher-Clients’ Interests in Mind
It didn’t take long for Cerberus to remember who its masters are. The New York-based private equity firm, which takes its name from the mythical three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hell, said late yesterday it would sell Freedom...
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Voting at a polling station in the garage of the Los Angeles County lifeguard headquarters on Nov. 6, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
California More Democratic Than Rest of U.S. By Biggest Gap Ever
Just how strongly Democratic is California, the nation’s most populous state? In the Nov. 6 election, California voted more Democratic for president than the rest of the nation by the biggest gap in the history of the state, according to...
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