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California's highest court has jumped into the middle of the legal fight over state worker furloughs, a move that could speed up resolving whether Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger legally exercised his authority when furloughing more than 200,000 state workers last year. The state Supreme Court ordered union and government attorneys to argue a case that Schwarzenegger has twice lost, even though, technically speaking, no one had asked the court to review the matter. "The court directs the parties to serve and file briefs addressing the following issue: Does the governor have the authority to furlough the state employees at issue in...

BUDGET DAY PLUS 71 -- Governor Schwarzenegger is keeping his poker face firmly in place, promising to reject any spending plan that doesn't reform the process of budgeting itself, and rejecting calls to ease the pressure for a deal by moving forward on a temporary appropriation for those state services that aren't being paid for. That was the general message of a ten minute one-on-one interview with Schwarzenegger this morning, one of several he's given to reporters in the past few days as a way of trying to stoke a new fire under the embattled Legislature. And on those calls...

These are the grizzly crime scene and autopsy photos released by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office in the case of convivted quadruple murderer and coward Tookie Williams. Hey, Mike Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Snoop Dogg, Bianca Jagger, Jesse Jackson, Margaret Cho, Mike Farrell, Jason Alexander, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston, Bonnie Raitt, and Noah Wyle -- Explain Tookie's redemption now?

I was at the rally yesterday in Anaheim. Mr. Beatty is wrong. I did not need a red wrist band to enter. It was a wonderfully organized event. Arnold looked great. His bus drove right into the warhouse, he stepped onto the stage and off he went. He talked about the propositions and the need to make huge changes in Sacramento. He said we've poured billions of dollars into the state educational system... so where are the billion dollar results? The crowd was full of about 400 beautiful, friendly, civilized people of all ages. The young people were well groomed...

Republicans Ponder the Center By ADAM NAGOURNEY AN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 10 — In Arnold Schwarzenegger, the national Republican Party now has a magnetic movie star in charge of the most populous state in the union, a governor-elect who has already emerged as an articulate, media-savvy and earnest figure who does not play by the conventional rules of politics. But far from simply rejoicing over his election, the party finds itself entangled in a debate over whether it should follow Mr. Schwarzenegger's path by moving to the center on social issues in order to become even more competitive in state...