With voting steadfastly along party lines, right up until 3 minutes before midnight on June 30th, California failed to pass a budget on Tuesday night. This means, unless there is some sort of miraculous breakthrough, California Treasurer John Chiang will begin issues IOUs Thursday.

California may have to issue IOUs because of the $24 billion deficit. The IOUs may be issued as early as July 2. Because of the state's financial difficulties, Controller John Chiang warned that he would have to start issuing warrants instead of money as both houses started debating solutions to the budget problem. If California IOUs start to replace actual cash, who would suffer?

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save the state $180 million by cutting short the prison sentences of undocumented immigrant inmates and handing them over to federal authorities for purposes of deportation.

A new law which took effect June 15, 2009 requires that banks in California give homeowners at least three months notice or attempt to renegotiate the existing loan before they can foreclose on the existing mortgage.

Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger addressing the budget says we have no time to waste. We are not the Washington and we don't have our own money to print.

Civil rights issues are, historically, decided by the courts and the rule of law; not the voters and the tyranny of the majority. But in a landmark decision today the california supreme court ruled to uphold Proposition 8.

On Tuesday, California's Supreme Court upheld the controversial anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, which was passed last year using California's initiative process. At the same time, the justices confirmed that the 18,000-plus same-sex marriages that took place before the Proposition was approved by voters will stand. The vote was 6-1.

This is an interesting attempt at a legal defense. A 30-year-old Northern California woman, Deborah Towe, faces 11 felony counts including unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, oral copulation of a person under the age of 16, committing lewd acts upon a child and arranging a meeting with a minor for a lewd purpose. But it was all for her daughter!

The polling stations in California will close at 8PM this evening. However, the early results of the 2009 California elections are the light turnout.

Calm winds early Wednesday had reduced the blazes in the San Bernardino area to mere smoke plumes earlier today, but the fires roared back with a vengeance as predicted 50MPH gusts took hold.

Several thousand residents living in 1,200 homes were evacuated from the Santa Barbara area on Wednesday, as wildfire season got an early start, fueled by a Calif. drought which has already raised the prospect of water rationing.

New home sales in Southwest Riverside County are beginning to show real life again, specifically, in the French Valley area! Sales activity at MorningStar Ranch has dramatically improved over the past month. Buyer prospects are increasing weekly and new homes are being sold rapidly. What is driving this market change?