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 Republicans softening platform on immigration — In its latest attempt to heal political divisions with Latinos, the California Republican Party is moving to alter its platform on immigration and social […]
Political Stories Top stories John Myers: For California Republicans, stakes in 2016 are high — As the Grand Old Party in the nation’s most populous state gather for their biannual convention, two decades worth of culture wars seem to have migrated to the national stage — a danger, say some, for the California faithful. Myers in KQED […]
Political Stories Top stories State panel outlaw ‘dark money’ in California political campaigns — The state’s campaign finance watchdog agency on Thursday adopted new requirements that nonprofit groups that contribute through a federal political action committee to support or oppose ballot measures or candidates in California must disclose their donors. LA Times article Public employee unions push bill […]
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 farm drainage deal faces Capitol Hill currents — A Congress that has stumbled over a California water bill amid record drought now faces a challenging new fight over irrigation drainage. But this […]
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 New initiative would end California death penalty — Already on life support, California’s death penalty would be abolished entirely under a proposed ballot initiative. The proposal would strike death as a […]
Political Stories Top stories Education groups propose initiative to extend Prop 30 income taxes until 2030 — With California’s Proposition 30 income tax hikes expiring in 2018, a coalition of education and other groups on Monday filed an initiative for next year’s ballot to temporarily extend those taxes on some of the wealthiest residents. Sacramento Bee article; Capital […]
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 Federal candidates seek ways to tap state campaign stockpiles — Henry T. Perea is facing the end of his term-limited time in the California state Assembly with $900,000 stashed in his […]
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 The inside story of how power struggles doomed Jerry Brown’s top priority — One of Gov. Jerry Brown’s most ambitious environmental goals was hanging in the balance when two powerful California […]
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 Assisted suicide bill heads to Jerry Brown – Dan Diaz, whose wife brought national attention to the physician-assisted death movement before dying last year, stood at the back of Senate chambers […]
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 John Myers: Ethics bills, exit exams and vaccines: Lawmakers march toward Friday deadline — With Friday’s deadline looming for the California Legislature, lawmakers worked Thursday to get through hundreds of still-pending […]
