Politics

California lawmakers keep school buses rolling

The California Legislature restores $248 million for home-to-school transportation. Gov. Jerry Brown had eliminated school busing money after state revenues fell short of projections.School buses

Berman, Sherman among those reporting campaign funding

Rep. Howard Berman raised more than $1 million in the last three months of 2011, according to campaign reports, for a total of $2.9 million. ...

Lobbyists set spending record in Sacramento

Labor, business and other interests spent more than $285 million in 2011, new documents show. The California Teachers Assn. spent the most, $6.5 million, as ...

Gov. Brown names panel to dismantle L.A. redevelopment agency

The three people will unwind hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, complex land deals, employee obligations and loans overseen by the agency.The three people ...

Ruling on redistricting a wake-up call for California GOP

The 7-0 court decision shows how out of sync the party has been. Its problem is not the shape of new districts but the size ...

Surprised Pasadena teacher receives national honor

At a student achievement assembly he helped organize at Muir High School, Manuel Rustin is stunned to learn that the Milken Family Foundation chairman had ...

California needs to find $3 billion by March

Controller warns that the state could be in the red by then. Republicans and Democrats snipe over the severity of the problem.Reporting from Sacramento -- ...

Residents balk at L.A. Council District 4's proposed new shape

Los Angeles' redistricting panel suggests an area that lumps together trendy Silver Lake in Central L.A., Beverly Crest in the Hollywood Hills and Lake Balboa ...

Brown ordered firing of regulator who took hard line on oil firms

The dispute centered on a risky method of extraction. California's governor has sued oil companies throughout his career, but he now talks of tossing cumbersome ...

2 key aides leave Austin Beutner's campaign for L.A. mayor

The high-level political consultants, who have advised Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, resign just days after Austin Beutner gives a major policy speech attacking City Hall.Two high-level ...

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