This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system.

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.

We need the science to continue. The heat, the storms, the sea level rise, the Arctic melting. These are all real facts that over time will sink in. The question is, will that be two years, or five years or 10 years?

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.