In case you missed it:
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown is heading back tonight to the Sacramento digs he inhabited during his first two-term go-around as governor to hit up donors for cash.
California's intense argument over legalizing marijuana is headed to the November ballot.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Campbell says he would not pursue "earmark" spending requests for California if he wins office.
Democratic Sen. Pat Wiggins, who has raised eyebrows with occasional outbursts at the Capitol, is taking a partial leave from the Legislature to attend to an undisclosed medical condition.
The newest national academic test results finds California's fourth- and eighth-graders stuck near the bottom in reading ability, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress.
California voters told the latest Field Poll that prisons and parks were the top two areas they'd send to the chopping block.
In tomorrow's Bee:
Tens of thousands of state workers have worked their last furlough day -- assuming an Alameda Superior Court judge's ruling survives yet another challenge by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Jon Ortiz has the story.
Secretary of State Debra Bowen confirmed Wednesday afternoon that voters will decide in November whether to legalize and tax marijuana use for Californians 21 and over. Peter Hecht reports.
Torey Van Oot reports that the three candidates running for governor sparred Wednesday over the state's costly and overcrowded prisons system.
The Capitol Bureau totes up spending in the governor's race.
Kevin Yamamura has more on U.S. Senate candidate Tom Campbell.
Ortiz writes in The State Worker column that it's the bureaucratic migrating season in Sacramento, and the latest bird to take flight is Randell Iwasaki of Caltrans.
The Bee's editorial board says local Assemblyman Roger Niello was one of the few legislators willing to buck Assembly Bill 183, which it calls "a $200 million tax giveaway for the real estate industry."
Peter Schrag writes in an op-ed that a new Public Policy Institute of California poll shows GOP candidates are on the wrong side of California voters on two major issues.
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