Katy Grimes: This morning, the Assembly took time to honor the San Francisco Giants. A very excited Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, gave a rousing speech wearing a Giants shirt and hat. That's nice. Yet the Giants have been honored in many ceremonies since they won the world series. ...

Anthony Pignataro: That's right, folks: Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown has appointed one Louis "Bill" Honig to the California State Board of Education. Honig, for those of you not old enough to remember 1993, spent a decade as state Superintendent of Public Instruction until getting convicted o...

Anthony Pignataro: The following is taken from the new Legislative Analyst's Office report Cal Facts, which you can read for yourself here. Some of  the report offers good -- indeed, fantastic -- news, while other portions are, well, pretty depressing: 1. Somehow, amidst all the state's jobs ...

John Seiler: A day after his seven-year tenure wrecking California, Arnold got a parking ticket. The link has pictures. Guess what he was driving? Surely it must be a Tesla electric car, which he touted earlier this year when it located its factory at the old GM/Toyota factory in Fremont? He said...

Katy Grimes: Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger might finally have a legacy, but it isn't what he had hoped for and forever links him with nefarious, notorious politicians. Esteban Nunez, the privileged son of  former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, may have received a commutation on his pr...

Steven Greenhut: There's no doubt that Gov.-elect Jerry Brown's inaugural speech Monday hit the right notes, as the Bee's Dan Walters put it. I was in the press gallery and found the talk to be funny and charming. He offered nothing specific, but every Californian should be glad to hear a governor o...