PODCAST: Former Senate Majority Leader and Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg has served as an advisor to governors and ...

In the California Legislature, there are several types of amendments that can be made to measures, including bills, ...

The stories of child abuse are heartbreaking and devastating. Responses to those stories are often something along the lines of, “How could this have happened?” Those kinds of responses are completely ...

As Assembly Majority Leader, Cecilia Aguiar-Curry guides her party’s legislative strategy, coordinates with committee chairs ...

As Assembly Majority Leader, Cecilia Aguiar-Curry guides her party’s legislative strategy, coordinates with committee chairs and helps ensure the efficient progression of bills. As chair of the ...

Stuart K. Spencer, the California political strategist who guided Ronald Reagan's ascent from Hollywood to the governor's ...

OPINION – “A child on the block” is what crack cocaine smokers up and down the streets of Skid Row would yell out to each other as I walked my daughter down San Julian every morning, just trying to ...

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In talking with legislative staff, there are some practical tips that were shared with me for those working with staff of legislators in the California State Capitol. While some of these ...