Articles by CalMatters staff

September 2024

California College Students Want More Online Courses, but Can They Catch Up to In-Class Peers?

August 2024

A Stunt or First Step? Inside California’s Last-Minute Effort to Cut Electric Bills and Streamline Clean Energy

May 2024

Watch: Democrats Kill California Homeless Camp Ban, Again

Hundreds Arrested and Suspended: How California Colleges Are Disciplining Faculty and Students Over Protests

College Campuses Can’t Hire Undocumented Students. How That Might Change in California

March 2024

Why Prop. 1 Foes Are Getting Back in the Fight

September 2023

Which Bills Will Gavin Newsom Sign Into New California Laws?

June 2023

Gavin Newsom Wants Ron DeSantis Charged With ‘Kidnapping’ Migrants. Is That Possible?

May 2023

Gavin Newsom Wants to Make It Easier to Build Roads, Dams and More. What’s in His Plan?

March 2023

As Emergency Aid Flows to Flooded-Out Californians, Will Cannabis Farmers Be Left Out?

January 2023

What Are the Most Interesting New Laws for California in 2023?

October 2022

Agency Battling Wage Theft in California Is Too Short-Staffed to Do Its Job

PROPS IN A MINUTE: Prop. 28 Means Guaranteed Funding for Arts and Music at Your Local Schools

PROPS IN A MINUTE: Prop 31 Asks You — Should the State Ban on Flavored Tobacco Products Go Forward?

PROPS IN A MINUTE: Prop. 27, the Other Gambling Initiative, Would Legalize Online Sports Betting

PROPS IN A MINUTE: What to Know About Prop. 26, the Initiative That Would Bring Sports Betting to Native American Casinos

PROPS IN A MINUTE: What is Proposition 1, the Constitutional Amendment That Would Guarantee Reproductive Freedom in the State?

August 2022

Newsom’s Call Now: Tracking California Bills Passed in the 2022 Legislative Session

Why Cal State Struggles to Graduate Black Students — and What Could Be Done

April 2022

Who’s Missing From California’s Community Colleges?

March 2022

Fact-Checking Gavin Newsom’s State of the State Speech 2022

January 2022

Newsom’s $50 Million Opioids Education Pledge Comes as Colleges Warn of Risks

December 2021

(VIDEOS) Eleven New California Laws for 2022, Explained in One Minute

OP-ED: Fix California’s Cannabis Framework; Eliminate the Cultivation Tax

November 2021

Cal State Requires Students to Be Vaccinated for COVID-19 — but It’s Not Evenly Enforced

September 2021

(UPDATE: RECALL FAILS) Live! Newsom Recall Results as They Come In, Statewide and by County

Newsom’s Call Now: California Legislature Passes These Top 2021 Bills

March 2021

Fact-Checking Gavin Newsom’s 2021 State of the State Speech

August 2020

On the Verge of Becoming Law: These 2020 Bills Are Up to California’s Governor

January 2020

What Gavin Newsom’s $222 Billion Budget Says About California’s Priorities