Dianne Feinstein News

I went downtown this afternoon. It was a wonderful warm summer afternoon, with just enough breeze from the ocean to keep it from being hot.

Just because there are 60 members of the Democrat caucus in the Senate doesn't mean they can do whatever they want, because as if often the case with Democrats, they don't always want the same things : Like an oasis in the desert, the 60-vote Democratic supermajority is a mirage.

Project Made Possible with $140,000 Grant from FHLBank San Francisco Affordable Housing Program SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco hosted the Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco build day to complete construction on seven new homes in the Whitney Young Circle housing development.

Sen. Feinstein: What's good for Joshua Tree National Park isn't necessarily good for Point Reyes National Seashore.

If Congress fails to enact health care reform this year - or if it enacts a sham reform designed to bail out corporate medicine while excluding the "public option" - then the public will rightly blame Democrats, who have no excuse for failure except their own cowardice and corruption.

California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she's open to the idea of having the government compete with private companies as a way to help provide health insurance to the nearly 50 million people who lack it.

With California's state government deadlocked over a $24 billion hole in its budget, the Golden State is hurtling toward financial apocalypse.

In this photograph provided by CNN, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., appears on "State of the Union" Sunday, June 21, 2009 at the CNN studios in Washington.

A powerful Senate Democrat is backing an oyster farmer over the National Park Service in a northern California controversy that has environmentalists seething.

The following is Dan Bacher's view of the town meeting in Fresno. This will be a significant event for the media in the battle over California Water.

Breaking the Sanford story A A June 25: The State's Gina Smith talks with MSNBC about breaking the news of Gov.

Marin County's largest oyster farm would be granted a 10-year lease extension under legislation added by Sen.

A page from South Korean newspaper Munhwa Ilbo on June 16 shows stories and alleged pictures of Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's third son and heir apparent.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Monday he would not run for governor in 2010.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's decision Monday to opt out of the 2010 governor's race could leave both parties without a major gubernatorial candidate from Southern California for the first time in 50 years - and all but assure that the Bay Area will have one of its own in the governor's seat come 2011.

Democrats in Congress crafting spending bills are largely rejecting the roster of program eliminations and budget cuts wanted by President Barack Obama.

"No one can figure out a politically acceptable way to pay for an overhaul of America's health care system, and until someone does, the effort is stalled.

Last week, a brief moment in time captured much that has gone wrong with post-'60s liberalism and feminism.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who's proven to have a more enlightened view on ENDA than even the Human Rights Campaign , has dropped out of the California gubernatorial race , where Democratic challengers would've included San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and, many expect, Sen.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is getting squeezed by business and organized labor over her neutrality on legislation that would make it easier for workers to form unions.