SACRAMENTO — Here in California’s balmy capital, you wouldn’t know there had been a riot in Los Angeles. In a year when L. A. has overdosed on reality, Sacramento has taken over the role of Fantasylan...
03.14.2026 Latimes.com
* In your Aug. 5 article ('Pros Enlisted to Aid Allen Recall') the [Assembly Speaker] Doris Allen recall advocates enumerate five reasons for backing the recall. Only one of those, that she has hurt t...
03.15.2026 Latimes.com
If it’s money that matters in politics, then Curtis R. Tucker Jr. is headed for victory in the race for the 50th Assembly District seat long held by his late father. With the Feb. 7 special election l...
03.15.2026 Latimes.com
SACRAMENTO — A controversial bill to raise legislative salaries by 10%, from $33, 732 to $37, 105 annually, after next year’s elections was barely approved Wednesday by the Assembly Ways and Means Com...
03.15.2026 Latimes.com
SACRAMENTO — In the topsy-turvy world of California politics, the recall of Republican Assemblywoman Doris Allen would seem to finally settle all the old scores. As many see it, Allen’s ouster gives a “real Republican, ” presumably Assembly GOP Leader Curt Pringle of Garden Grove, the votes needed to assume the speakership and thus control the lower house’s policy apparatus and purse strings. Not so fast. This is, after all, the California Assembly. While boosters of Pringle talk of pushing thei...
03.14.2026 Latimes.com
SACRAMENTO — Fed up with the media’s coverage of lawmakers, Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco) appears to be gambling that live, moving pictures will be worth more to his institution’s im...
03.15.2026 Latimes.com
The Assembly devoted the majority of its Monday floor session to eulogizing Speaker Pro Tem Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles), who is resigning from the Legislature March 19 to take a new job. Roos will recei...
03.14.2026 Latimes.com
SACRAMENTO — Concerned about rising gang violence, Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco) on Tuesday proposed a major statewide effort to crack down on gang members, including more state mone...
03.14.2026 Latimes.com
SACRAMENTO — Several long-feuding groups hammered out a last-minute deal Friday on legislation to provide new protections for private industry and individuals against personal injury lawsuits, includi...
03.15.2026 Latimes.com
SACRAMENTO — Persistent attempts by a powerful lawmaker to make it easier for psychiatrists to administer anti-psychotic drugs to mentally ill patients ended early Saturday morning as time ran out on the Assembly’s 1989-90 session. The abrupt and dra...
03.16.2026 Latimes.com