Press Releases
Governor Brown Announces Appointments
LOS ALAMITOS - Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today announced the following appointments. Colonel David Baldwin, 47, of Fair Oaks, has been appointed as the adjutant general of the California National Guard. Baldwin has served the California National Guard for more...
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Governor Brown Signs Legislation
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today announced he has signed two bills - AB 50 by Assemblymember Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) which exempts San Bruno residents from paying state taxes on disaster relief funds received after the pipeline explosion last...
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Governor Brown Announces Appointments
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today announced the following appointments. Claudia Cappio, 57, of Oakland, has been appointed executive director of the California Housing Finance Agency. She is currently the managing principal of Sparticles, LLC a planning...
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Governor Brown Requests Presidential Major Disaster Declaration to Help Tsunami Recovery Efforts in California
SACRAMENTO - In a letter to President Barack Obama, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today requested a Presidential major disaster declaration for the state following the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan, which generated a water surge that...
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Governor Brown Announces Appointments
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today announced the following appointments. John Cronin, 55, of Marin, has been appointed to the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. Cronin has 27 years of worldwide sailing...
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Governor to Participate in Tele-Town Hall this Evening
SACRAMENTO - Governor Jerry Brown will join hundreds of state employees from throughout California this evening in a tele-town hall organized by SEIU. This town hall will be webcast live at www.gov.ca.gov. When: Today, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 6:00 p.m....
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Governor Brown Signs Legislation To Improve Public Safety and Empower Local Law Enforcement
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today signed AB 109, which makes fundamental changes to California’s correctional system to stop the costly, ineffective and unsafe "revolving door" of lower-level offenders and parole violators through our state prisons....
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Governor Brown Announces Appointments
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today announced the following appointments. Christine Baker, 61, of Berkeley, has been appointed chief deputy director of the Department of Industrial Relations. She has been the executive officer of the Commission on Health...
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Governor Brown Releases Twelve-Point Pension Reform Plan
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today released the actual bill language of seven separate pension reform measures. In addition, Brown listed five other specific pension reforms that he is developing. These include a pension benefit cap, limits on...
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Governor Brown Ends State’s Drought Status, Urges Californians to Continue to Conserve
SACRAMENTO - Following significant increases in statewide rainfall and mountain snowpack this season, Governor Jerry Brown today proclaimed an end to the state’s drought, but urged Californians to keep conserving water as we move into the spring and summer months....
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