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Governor and First Lady Honor Pfc. Mervyn E. Sims
SACRAMENTO - On behalf of all Californians, Governor Brown and First Lady Anne Gust Brown honor U.S. Army Air Forces Pfc. Mervyn E. Sims, 23, a WWII airman missing since 1943. On April 22, 2011 the Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced...
read moreProclamation Armenian Genocide Day of Remembrance
PROCLAMATIONBY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Between 1915 and 1923, 1.5 million Armenians were subjected to torture, starvation, mass murder and exile from their historic homeland. The Armenian Genocide, also known as the “First Genocide of the Twentieth...
read moreGovernor Brown Requests Presidential Major Disaster Declaration to Help Communities Recover from March Storms
SACRAMENTO - In a letter to President Barack Obama, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today requested a Presidential major disaster declaration for the state following a series of storms last month that brought heavy rain and snow, high winds and flooding, destroying and...
read moreGovernor Brown to Participate in Silicon Valley Leadership Group Summit Tomorrow in San Jose
SAN JOSE - Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. will participate in the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s 8th Annual CEO Business Climate Summit tomorrow in San Jose. The Governor will join Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, SunPower CEO Tom Werner and Applied Materials CEO...
read moreGovernor Brown Orders State Agencies to Recover Uncollected Salary and Travel Advances
SACRAMENTO - Upon learning that millions of dollars in employee salary and travel advances are going uncollected, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today issued an Executive Order to ensure state agencies and departments recover taxpayer dollars and improve internal...
read moreEXECUTIVE ORDER B-5-11
EXECUTIVE ORDER B-5-11 BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WHEREAS Executive Order B-1-11, issued on January 11, 2011, ordered state agencies and departments to review operational expenditures and to reduce waste, redundancies, and costs to create a more...
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