Petris grew up in a California increasingly ... reintroduced his bill—and received a very different reception. Just weeks earlier, the largest oil spill in US history had begun off the coast ...

Petris grew up in a California increasingly ... reintroduced his bill — and received a very different reception. Just weeks earlier, the largest oil spill in U.S. history had begun off the ...

Petris grew up in a California increasingly ... reintroduced his bill—and received a very different reception. Just weeks ...

Nicholas C. Petris, who was a leading liberal voice for nearly four decades as a California state senator and assemblyman representing his hometown of Oakland and other East Bay cities ...

OAKLAND — Former California state Sen. Nicholas C. Petris was a strong speaker whose gentlemanly manner could cross party lines to get laws like a landmark civil rights act for the mentally ill ...