Willie Brown

Review: SFJAZZ Center makes a splash on opening night

2013-01-24 13:04:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- Los Angeles, did you hear that? Given the laws of physics and the roughly 400-odd miles of distance, it's unlikely this week's opening of the $63-million SFJAZZ Center could be heard on the opposite end of the state (apart from its live...

State Democratic Party chairman hosting 80th birthday bash

2012-12-13 16:14:13

PUC plan would put trust funds at risk

2012-12-16 00:00:00

Even the most inattentive 401(k) owner surely understands today that the markets can bite you where it hurts, that promises of long-term investment gains can evaporate in the blink of a short-term crash and that the less understandable an investment...

Keys to a California GOP comeback: camaraderie and good ideas

2012-12-02 22:20:00

Paul Priolo remembers the last time Democrats enjoyed a supermajority in the state Assembly. He was the Republican leader. And his strategy was simple. "I socialized with Democrats," he says. "That was my key to getting along and overcoming the handicap...

Three-strikes shouldn't be about small-time crime

2012-10-22 00:00:00

SACRAMENTO — One guy stole a loaf of bread. Another was caught with a speck of meth. Somebody grabbed $1 in change from a parked car. These men all had one thing in common besides being losers. They were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison...

Cathie Wright dies at 82; former assemblywoman and state senator

2012-04-17 00:00:00

A cardboard elephant in Cathie Wright's Sacramento office during her 20 years in the Assembly and state Senate from 1980 to 2000 summed up the Simi Valley Republican's sense of statecraft: "It's Better to Be a Stomper, Than a Stompee." "I'm tenacious, I'...

Famous S.F. bar fighting to stay open

2012-03-25 16:35:59

Howard Berman to host major Sacramento fundraiser Monday

2012-04-23 16:39:57

Edna Aliewine dies at 90; Watts community activist founded Christmas parade

2011-07-09 00:00:00

Edna Aliewine, a small woman who left a large imprint on South Los Angeles as founder of the Watts/Willowbrook Christmas Parade and co-creator of the Watts walk of fame, died at her home Tuesday. She was 90 and had lymphoma, her family said. The longtime...

State redistricting nears finish line

2011-10-26 21:35:36

The go-to guy: Peter Ueberroth

2011-05-21 00:00:00

So here's Peter Ueberroth, L.A.'s Olympic champion, chairman of the Newport Beach investor company the Contrarian Group, sharing his office with someone else -- his border collie, Koot, for Kootenai, the Idaho county where Ueberroth found him abandoned....

Ohio Gov. John Kasich: 'We will not be raising taxes in this state'

2011-03-09 16:35:32

In May 1967, Black Panthers protesting an Assembly bill to ban openly carrying loaded weapons showed up at the state Capitol with unloaded firearms. That's a young Willie Brown, future Assembly speaker, talking with a Panther.

2013-01-02 09:02:47

United States Postal Service letter carrier Khalalisa Norris, 33, is greeted by longtime resident Willie Brown, 74, as she delivers mail on the 5400 block of West Van Buren Street in Austin Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. (Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune)

2011-08-17 22:06:00

Officials place bricks on a newly-mortared wall during the Chatham Walmart's ceremonial groundbreaking in Chicago, July 25, 2011. From left, West Chatham Improvement Association Sandra Harrison, Willie Brown with A.C. Brown Construction Company Inc., Alderman Howard Brookins, Jr., Howard B.

2011-07-27 08:47:30