Monday is the last day to register to vote in the special June 4 election for District 2 Santa Clara County supervisor.Six candidates and a write-in candidate are vying for the position that was vacated March 1 by former Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr.  

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The state's independent budget analyst said Friday that California will take in $3.2 billion more than Gov. Jerry Brown estimated, providing Democratic lawmakers an argument to funnel more money into state programs and setting up a spending showdown with the administration.  

The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service apologized to Congress on Friday for his agency's tougher treatment of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. He said they resulted from a misguided effort to handle a flood of applications, not political bias.