California on Monday November 02, 2009

CA: California's fiscal health continues to deteriorate, despite many deep cuts
By Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times
LOS ANGELES — Just three months after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger cut, taxed and line-item-vetoed away a two-year budget gap of $26 billion, California faces billions of dollars in new shortfalls, with the problem likely to deepen in the next fiscal year.
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CA: It's a small field of candidates for such a huge race
By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times
SAN FRANCISCO -- California has roughly 37 million residents and about 17 million registered voters. Of those, more than 7 million are declared Democrats.
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Spending limits, gambling top&nbsp;fiscal 2009 ballot measures
By Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org Staff Writer

The national spotlight may be focused Nov. 3 on elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, but voters elsewhere could take action to profoundly change the way their states get and spend taxpayers’ money.
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CA: Gavin Newsom drops out of California governor's race
By Mark Z. Barabak and Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times
SAN FRANCISCO and SACRAMENTO -- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom abruptly abandoned his run for California governor Friday, folding in the face of weak poll numbers and a skimpy bank account and leaving state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown as the only major candidate bidding for the Democratic nomination.
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CA: Newsom exit gives huge boost to Brown campaign
By Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle
When Attorney General Jerry Brown, 71, became the last man standing in the 2010 Democratic gubernatorial field on Friday, the battle-scarred warrior with four decades in state politics pulled off a remarkable feat in California - home to an elbow-throwing pack of ambitious Democratic politicians.
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CA: Governor may get to pick No. 2
By Kevin Yamamura , The Sacramento Bee
If Democratic Lt. Gov. John Garamendi wins a special congressional election Tuesday in the Democrat-leaning 10th Congressional District, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has the power to appoint Garamendi's replacement.
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CA: California lawmakers rarely defy party lines, analysis finds
By Phillip Reese and Steve Wiegand , The Sacramento Bee
It's more likely to rain in Death Valley on any given day than it is for a California legislator to vote in opposition to the majority of his or her party on any given bill, a new Bee analysis shows.
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WY: Study finds west is best for sleep
By Joshua Wolfson, Casper Star-Tribune
If you're feeling well rested this morning, it might be because you live out West.
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CA: Taxes and bonds top local ballots
By Jean Merl and Ann M. Simmons, Los Angeles Times
Across Southern California, recession-pinched cities and school districts are asking their voters for help in Tuesday's local elections.
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CA: California killer's case back before Supreme Court
By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court is considering, for the third time, the case of a California murderer who was sentenced to die in 1982 for the brutal killing of a young woman.
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CA: California may pull the plug on power-guzzling flat-screen TVs
By Michael B. Farrell, The Christian Science Monitor
SAN FRANCISCO -- The state that first championed the ban on energy-hogging refrigerators in the 1970s now has its sights set on power-hungry TVs.
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