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Even with higher CalPERS earnings, upping pensions for public safety employees would cost the state and local governments $4.8 billion more.

UC Merced has fallen far short of enrollment goals, spends more to operate than other UC campuses and has had less economic impact than expected.

Some California governors leave office on a high note and some in clouds of disdain. New polling suggests Gavin Newsom may become one of the latter.

California law should be changed to require the lieutenant governor to serve if a recall is successful. It would stop gubernatorial recall abuse, focus both political parties on winning general elections and avoid many of the $215 million in costs for this exercise in democracy.

The date of California's recall election still is not set, but voters may decide the governor's fate closer to Labor Day than November.

It’s not too late for the state Legislature to fix this messy way of conducting a recall election: Here is a simple home-grown solution.

While the governor's opponents have burned through most of the money they've collected to date, his defenders have some $2.5 million in the bank.

Si bien los oponentes del gobernador han gastado la mayor parte del dinero que han recaudado hasta la fecha, sus defensores tienen alrededor de $2.5 millones en el banco.

Democratic Party leaders unite behind a message that the recall is a desperate Republican plot that is bad for California. But will progressives and Latinos turn out to vote?

Tómelo de alguien que estuvo involucrado en la destitución del gobernador Davis, hay dos problemas importantes con otro demócrata que ingresa a la carrera.