A key moment in the dueling Obama-House Republican visit to Silicon Valley Monday was when the wealthy, retired-early Google exec told President Obama to raise his taxes. Yes, you read that right. "I don't have a job, but that's because I've been lucky enough to live in Silicon Valley ...

FOWLER - It was just more than a week ago that Gov. Jerry Brown, preparing to plow through hundreds of bills sent to him by the Legislature, suggested he was looking forward to it. He likened the review to "archaeology ... excavating the inner workings of Sacramento." But with ...