Bill Bradley

California is knee-deep in its worst-ever budget crisis. Governor Gray Davis is proposing more than $10 billion in first-round cuts and adjustments -- growing to nearly $30 billion over 18 months. He‘s hauled in the Legislature for a brief, unprecedented special session to sort through the mess. The smoke and......

Governor Gray Davis let slip away a key solution to California‘s continuing electric-power mess last summer and spring when he refused to take up several companies on their offers to Governor Gray Davis let slip away a key solution to California’s continuing electric-power mess last summer and spring when he......

Arnold Schwarzenegger, showing only a hint of movie-star swagger, headed toward the podium at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. He had traveled up and down the state to talk to the poor and the powerful about Proposition 49, the after-school programs initiative voters overwhelmingly approved this month. The average......

Photo by Ted Soqui GOVERNOR GRAY DAVIS waited in his 18th-floor suite at the Century Plaza Hotel for Bill Simon Jr. to concede. Ever cautious, Davis must have wondered whether voters’ high distrust of him might keep him from winning a second term. He didn’t dare go downstairs and address......

Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov IT'S LABOR DAY, 1998, AND GRAY DAVIS IS AT Qualcomm Stadium, home of the San Diego Padres, to throw out the first pitch of the game. It seemed like a tailor-made campaign stop. After all, he was the captain and shortstop on his high school baseball......

Movie superstar and Republican activist Arnold Schwarzenegger is quietly examining his prospects as a write-in candidate for governor in the November election. Pollsters working for Schwarzenegger’s after-school programs initiative, Proposition 49, interviewed likely California voters last week about a possible Schwarzenegger write-in candidacy. When the Weekly asked his advisers, who......

CALL IT THE BATTLE FOR GRAY DAVIS' SOUL. United Farm Workers' co-founder Dolores Huerta turned up the heat at a Capitol rally marking the end of the UFW's 10-day march up the Central Valley to draw attention to the governor's reluctance to sign landmark legislation providing binding arbitration for farm......

A LONG, SLOW LINE OF MARCHERS PAINSTAKingly making their way up the Central Valley are complicating life and politics for Governor Gray Davis. The marchers, all members and allies of the United Farm Workers, are urging Davis to sign a bill that provides farm workers with mediation and arbitration rights......

It’s a tough time to be a Republican in California. The party‘s candidate for governor, investor Bill Simon Jr., is all tangled up in his secretive financial and legal affairs, which include offshore tax shelters the IRS considers ”abusive“ and a $78 million fraud judgment won against his firm by......

Robert Redford and a host of dignitaries were on hand in San Francisco last week when Governor Gray Davis signed the nation‘s first legislation to combat global warming. But on the opposite coast, on the same day, there was another gathering on the same topic, with a decidedly opposite tone......