Topic: Karen Bass

Student loan interest doubles in July due to Congressional inaction

The rate for subsidized Stafford loans is set to increase from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1, due to Congressional inaction, just as millions of new college students start signing up for fall courses.

Mike Duvall sex scandal: Did he break lobbying rules?

The GOP California lawmaker who was caught on video making sexual boasts is being investigated for a reported tryst with an energy lobbyist.

Calif. lawmakers fight Schwarzenegger over crowded prisons

They are on a path to release fewer than the 27,300 inmates the governor's plan would. But Republicans still see a threat to public safety.

California's budget drama intensifies

Gov. Schwarzenegger stakes his political legacy on fiscal reform without tax hikes.

Nature's Great Events

This sumptuous companion book to a BBC series examines our planet and its wild inhabitants.

California running out of money

A $28 billion budget shortfall through 2010 could start to pinch next week.

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