Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu! Political Stories Top stories California on verge of unprecedented clout in Congress, but McCarthy and Pelosi barely speak – Kevin McCarthy and Nancy Pelosi are about to make history. If McCarthy becomes speaker of the House, […]
Political Stories Top stories McCarthy announces run for House speaker — Bakersfield Congressman Kevin McCarthy announced Monday he’s running for House speaker, a job that would make him one of the most powerful men in the United States. In a statement and in an interview, McCarthy vowed to heal the considerable divisions in the House GOP […]
Political Stories Top stories Central Valley sees hope in Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s potential rise – Every so often, Rep. Kevin McCarthy tosses out a catch phrase that’s popular in this southern tip of the San Joaquin Valley: “Once a Driller, always a Driller.” With McCarthy the odds-on favorite to succeed John A. Boehner as speaker of […]
Political Stories Top stories Moderate Assembly Democrats emerges as pro-business force —Â Known around the Capitol as “the mods,” they forced Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislative leaders to abandon a key provision of a bill that sought to combat global warming by dramatically reducing the state’s reliance on oil. The group also blocked efforts to […]
Political Stories Top stories Bakersfield’s Kevin McCarthy in line to replace Boehner as House Speaker — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield now seems likely to step into the vacancy left by the departing House Speaker John Boehner. Fifteen years younger than Boehner, and seated right below him in House leadership, McCarthy has been the presumptive heir […]
Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu! Political Stories Top stories Following petroleum defeat, Jerry Brown’s air board flexes muscle on climate — Earlier this month, when a legislative effort to reduce petroleum use in motor vehicles fell apart, Gov. Jerry Brown […]
Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu! Political Stories Top stories Push to nix California vaccine law enters crucial stretch — Signed into law this June after a ferocious political fight, Senate Bill 277 requires that children – unless they have a […]
Political Stories Top stories Jerry Brown signs post-redevelopment bill – Four years after approving legislation that ended the anti-blight redevelopment program in California, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill giving local agencies a way to pay for similar projects. Assembly Bill 2, by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, authorizes local governments in economically depressed areas to […]
Political Stories Top stories Another Prop 30 income tax increase now aiming for 2016 — A group of health and youth advocates on Monday introduced a ballot initiative to expand and make permanent the Proposition 30 income tax increases on the state’s highest earners. Sacramento Bee article; LA Times article Dan Walters: California Democrats are facing civil wars […]
Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu! Political Stories Top stories California GOP softens on immigration, but will message get drowned out? — The California Republican Party’s adoption of a more moderate plank on immigration Sunday marked a step forward in the […]
