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Iowa Governor Plans To Lure Calif. Businesses To Hawkeye State

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad will visit California Tuesday to convince Golden State businesses to move to the Hawkeye State.

CBS2 / KCAL9–2013/02/18

Gov. Brown: Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s Radio Ad ‘Barely A Fart’

Gov. Jerry Brown Tuesday compared a radio advertisement that criticized business in the Golden State released by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to…flatulence.

CBS2 / KCAL9–2013/02/05

Charles Manson (credit: Getty Images News/Handout)

Gov. Brown To Set Fate Of Ex-Manson Follower

California’s governor has been asked to make the final decision on whether a former Charles Manson follower will be released on parole after serving more than 40 years in prison.

CBS2 / KCAL9–2013/02/04

Heidi Rummel is the co-director of the USC Gould School of Law's Post-Conviction Justice Project. (credit: CBS)

USC Law Students Fight To Get A Dying Woman Released From Prison

A group of USC law students filed a formal request to Gov. Jerry Brown Thursday to grant parole to a 66-year-old terminally ill woman who has been behind bars for 25 years for killing her abusive partner.

CBS2 / KCAL9–2013/02/01

Brown Offers Maryland Governor A History Book If Niners Lose Super Bowl

Gov. Jerry Brown was one of the few California politicians yet to announce a bet on Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup, until he offered up a characteristically esoteric wager.

CBS2 / KCAL9–2013/02/01

CSU System Wants Nearly $372 Million In State Funding

CSU officials said Tuesday they will need nearly $250 million more in state funding for the next academic year than is currently proposed, an amount that Gov. Jerry Brown called “a dream more than reality.”

CBS2 / KCAL9–2013/01/22

Analyst Agrees Brown’s Calif. Budget In Balance

California’s budget is finally in balance as long as state lawmakers follow Gov. Jerry Brown’s guidance to hold the line on spending.

CBS2 / KCAL9–2013/01/14

Gov. Brown’s Budget Plan May Help Calif. Colleges Avoid Tuition Hikes

After years of difficult budget cuts, Gov. Jerry Brown is offering more money to California’s public colleges and universities.

CBS2 / KCAL9–2013/01/11

Calif. Budget Debate Turns To Spending, Not Cuts

California’s financial fortunes are more optimistic than they have been in years, but Gov. Jerry Brown says he will propose a budget calling for continued frugality.

2013/01/09

Gov. Brown ‘Great’ After Cancer Treatment

Gov. Jerry Brown said that he has concluded radiation treatment for early-stage prostate cancer.

CBS2 / KCAL9–2013/01/08

Report: Top Calif. Parks Officials Kept $20M Hidden

Officials at the highest levels of the California Department of Parks and Recreation helped keep millions of dollars in money intended for state parks secret for more than a decade.

CBS2 / KCAL9–2013/01/04

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner. (credit: Pool/Getty Images News)

‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal Brings Some Relief To Calif.

The deal in Washington to avoid the “fiscal cliff” will bring a reprieve to California’s slowly rebounding economy, but uncertainty remains in part because Congress delayed action on federal spending cuts.

CBS2 / KCAL9–2013/01/02