PolitiCal Roundup: Jerry Brown ready to deal on pensions, more census trends

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Pension reform, a GOP demand, is now officially on the negotiating table in California’s budget talks. Gov. Jerry Brown says he’s working on a proposal in the final days left to strike a deal.

In Wisconsin, the union defeat is resounding: Gov. Scott Walker signs the bill to limit collective bargaining for most public workers.

More notes from this week’s census release: From the Bay area, a story of waning black enclaves in California’s coastal cities. Oakland, for example, has lost 25% of its black population this decade.

And from Riverside County, the story of Murrieta, biggest boom town in a booming country. That city more than doubled its population in the census decade, even as L.A.’s population barely budged.