Sam Liccardo
Drawing high profile attention across the U.S., San Jose’s mayor wins approval for a first-in-the-nation city law to require San Jose gun owners to carry liability insurance and pay a fee aimed at reducing gun violence.
Tim Draper
Silicon Valley venture capitalist pulls his proposed state ballot measure to neuter public employee unions, following two failed attempts in recent years to qualify ballot measures to break up California into multiple states.
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Leondra Kruger
Leondra KrugerState Supreme Court justice is on the shortlist to succeed retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. But D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former Breyer clerk with more experience, seems to have inside track.