From SF Gate...

California Governor Jerry Brown proposed a four-day workweek to reduce pay for state employees and $8.3 billion of other cuts, mostly in welfare and medical care for the poor, to help close a $15.7 billion budget deficit.

Cutting the standard week would be the equivalent of a 5 percent pay cut, saving $400 million a year, Brown said today in revising his budget for the year beginning July 1. Health care for the poor would take the biggest reduction, about $1.2 billion, with $1.1 billion sliced from welfare and care for the disabled. School spending would grow $1.5 billion less than planned.

"I said in the beginning, when I ran for this job, that it's taken a long time, nearly a decade, to get into this mess," Brown said at a briefing for reporters in Sacramento. "We're not going to get out of it in a year."

From the New York Daily News...

The Cartagena hooker is not the only cheating notch in married Secret Service Agent Arthur Huntington’s bedpost.

A Canadian beauty met Huntington last year in Ireland, where he was assigned to protect the President. And she is outraged that the agent lied about being divorced to woo her into bed.               

After learning the truth, months later, she said, “I was screaming. . . I was in disbelief. I couldn’t sleep that night. Then I started to read stuff that he was married, living in Maryland with his kids. You have no idea how I felt. I felt sick.”

The Canadian woman, 42, spoke to the Daily News on condition of anonymity and said she is coming forward now because his wife “deserves to know because it’s not a one-time thing.”

(NewsCore) - Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao attempted Wednesday to quiet the storm surrounding his vocal opposition to same-sex marriage.

In an interview with Examiner.com earlier this week, the Filipino superstar disagreed with President Barack Obama's view that gay couples should be allowed to marry, calling it a direct attack on the morals of society and the will of God.

But Pacquiao, a devout Christian, said Wednesday he is not against homosexuality, just same-sex marriage.

"I'm not against gay people," Pacquiao said in a statement. "I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. What I'm critical of are actions that violate the word of God. I only gave out my opinion that same-sex marriage is against the law of God."

FOX 11 has the rest...

How does California Governor Jerry Brown compare to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie?

The Wall Street Journal will tell you....

In his January 2011 inaugural address, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared it a "time to honestly assess our financial condition and make the tough choices." Plainly the choices weren't tough enough: Mr. Brown has just announced that he faces a state budget deficit of $16 billion—nearly twice the $9.2 billion he predicted in January. In Sacramento Monday, he coupled a new round of spending cuts with a call for some hefty new tax hikes.

In his own inaugural address back in January 2010, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also spoke of making tough choices for the people of his state. For his first full budget, Mr. Christie faced a deficit of $10.7 billion—one-third of projected revenues. Not only did Mr. Christie close that deficit without raising taxes, he is now plumping for a 10% across-the-board tax cut.

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A statistics expert who's auditing the Fire Department's data analysis says in a preliminary report scheduled to be presented to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today that response times supplied by department officials cannot be trusted, in part because of software problems.

Jeff Godown's audit stems from an assignment he was given in March to help the Fire Department establish a CompStat-type management system similar to the one set up in 2002 at the Los Angeles Police Department by then-Chief William Bratton, who had successfully used such a system to map crime and police responses in New York City.

KFI News has the rest

Columnist Victor David Hanson attempts to answer that question...           

Recently, I was driving down pot-holed, two-lane, non-freeway 101 near Monterey (unchanged since the 1960s) when the radio blared that on a recent science test administered to public schools, California scored 47th in the nation. As I looked at the congested traffic on the decrepit highway and digested the idea that our public schools are competitive only with Mississippi and Alabama, I wondered — is that what we get for a more than 10 percent income tax, 10 percent state and local sales taxes, and the highest gas taxes in the nation?

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The penalty phase began Tuesday for the man found guilty of the first-degree murder of star high school football player Jamiel Shaw.

The same jury that handed down a guilty verdict for Pedro Espinosa just last week will take three days to hear evidence to determine whether Espinoza should get the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

Espinoza's gang affiliation makes him eligible for the death penalty. He was also reportedly in the country illegally when he murdered Shaw. The prosecution is seeking the death penalty with the support of Shaw's family, who says they want their son's case to set precedence. The prosecution plans to put Shaw's parents on the stand Wednesday or Thursday to read victim impact statements.