Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a $125.6 billion spending plan Tuesday that increases spending on education, health services, and roads and highways. The budget proposal includes a 7 percent increase in expenditures but does not increase taxes. Read more...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has long-term multi-billion-dollar plans to reconstruct the Golden State, extending outside of his proposed fiscal budget announced Tuesday. Last week, at his State of the State address, Schwarzenegger announced plans to rebuild and reinforce California’s infrastructure by building and rebuilding highways, schools, courthouses, jails and levees, amounting to more than $222 billion in projects for the state. Read more...

A group of 42 non-California-resident students is suing the University of California over its policy allowing some undocumented immigrant students to pay tuition and fees as in-state residents, bringing in another element in the controversy regarding undocumented immigrants and their status in the U.S. Read more...

A new state Senate bill, which takes aim at the University of California’s compensation practices, calls for limits on the UC’s fiscal independence if the university fails to undertake certain reforms. Read more...

The Rev. James Lawson, a renowned nonviolent civil rights activist, spoke Tuesday about the current status of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and its future direction and shape. Read more...

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If you had the chance to vaccinate your daughter against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of women each year, would you? Some social conservatives are hoping your answer is “no.” That’s because some conservatives, seeking to uphold parental rights and the antiquated standards of abstinence-only education, are rallying against putting vaccines against human papilloma virus (commonly called HPV) on the list of required immunizations for school-age girls. Read more...