Arnold Schwarzenegger News

As lawmakers in cash-strapped states wrestled this year with revenues that kept on falling, both campaign promises and long-standing reform efforts got pushed to the side.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he is willing to reconsider his most recent proposal to help close the state's $26.3 billion budget shortfall by suspending state constitutional rules that control education spending in order to make deep cuts in school funding.

Deep in debt and short on cash, California on Thursday started churning out its first batch of IOUs in nearly two decades amid grumbles from bankers, growing public outrage and scant progress in negotiations to solve the state's widening budget deficit.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has set Nov. 3 as the date of a special election for the Congressional seat vacated by former U.S. Rep.

After months of debate, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said up to 100,000 acre-feet of water will be released to Central Valley farms to help them in drought conditions.

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Shortly after Veronica Perotti was found slain inside her West Second Avenue apartment in 1984, investigators asked the state to post a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her killer.

Gov. Jan Brewer kept state government running but rejected funding levels for K-12 schools and said she was calling a special session next week to increase school funding.

Staving off California's financial meltdown will be the toughest role ever for Hollywood hero Arnold Schwarzenegger as he enters the last 18 months of his governorship.

The federal government is threatening to take possession of several of California's most prominent state parks - including Angel Island and Mount Tamalpais - if Sacramento lawmakers close them to balance the budget.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom strikes a pose for the cameras of The New York Times.

From the moment results of the May 19 special state election were announced, Gov.

California: A Dream Decimated By Harold Meyerson Washington Post Wednesday, July 1, 2009 In Sacramento, they can hear the chimes at midnight.

In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency and ordered state offices closed three days a month to save money as the state sank deeper into dysfunction.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal emergency to address California's deficit and has ordered state offices closed three days a month to save cash.

California officials said Wednesday they are trying to avert the federal government's threat to seize six parks that could be closed to help reduce the state's ballooning budget deficit.

State Senate Republicans, saying they wanted a complete and not a partial budget solution, refused to support 3 bills that would have provided over $3 billion in cash for the State Controller to pay vendors and other reimbursements instead of IOUs - " a situation he warned wlll happen as early as July 2 unless a budget plan was in place.

While waiting for the state Senate to convene Monday, the California Channel, a public affairs television service, filled in by broadcasting a recent conference on the burgeoning movement to fundamentally overhaul California's dysfunctional state government.

Stanislaus County has been called "ground zero" for auto theft in recent years, so District Attorney Birgit Fladager is taking issue with the governor's plan to make auto theft a misdemeanor punishable by time in a local jail, rather than hard time in state prison.

California prepared on Tuesday to resort to issuing IOUs as the giant but cash-strapped U.S. state struggled to approve a new budget in time for the new fiscal year that begins on Wednesday.