Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued the following statement today after President Barack Obama announced new actions and investments to support workers, farmers and rural communities suffering from drought and to combat wildfires, including $18 million for the State of California to provide jobs for workers dislocated by the drought:

Coachella, California - Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia will be joined by Teveia Barnes, Executive Director of California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to host an informational workshop on available financing programs and loans.

Sacramento, California - There’s so much confusion about California’s drought, and a lot of my colleagues in the media, I’m sorry to say, have been amplifying that confusion. The proliferation of stories showing how much water various food products use implies that people should be eating water-thrifty foods - but that would do precisely nothing to fix the problem. The real solutions are within reach (I’ll get to those), but they will require the hard work of politics to achieve, rather than simplistic, consumer-focused fixes.

Riverside, California - A federal jury Tuesday convicted three defendants who worked at a Rancho Cucamonga business that offered bogus loan modification programs to thousands of financially distressed homeowners who lost more than $7 million when they paid for services, including loan modifications, that were never provided.

San Jose, California - Patricia Delatorre and Jesus Salinas pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose yesterday to conspiracy to commit extortion for their role in a scheme involving the transportation of two minor children across the U.S.-Mexico border, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge Dave Johnson.

Coachella, California - Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia announced today that his Indio district office has moved to a new location in Coachella. The new office will be located at 48220 Jackson St, Suite A3 Coachella, California 92236.