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When Gov. Jerry Brown appears before the Legislature this afternoon to give his first State of the State speech in nearly 30 years, it may be more about what the governor won't be saying than what he will. The state's $25.4 billion budget deficit looms over every conversation in Sacramento, and the new governor is busy trying to sell his proposed solution, a mix of spending cuts and tax extensions, that has a little something for everyone to hate. So it's unlikely that Brown will be rolling out any ambitious projects or plans because there's no money. And while those...

Two Democrat-backed groups formed to back Jerry Brown and oppose Republican Meg Whitman in the gubernatorial race announced today that they will join forces and combine resources ahead of the general election. The Democratic Governors Association, which had launched the anti-Whitman California Accountability Project is joining the effort of California Working Families for Jerry Brown for Governor, a committee backed by labor unions including California Professional Firefighters, SEIU State Council and the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California. "Now, as the primary draws to an end, we must turn our focus to ensuring Democrats take back the California...