Sacramento
February 2024
Business, Labor Fight Over California Law Few Know About
These Fed-Up Parents Fought California’s Pandemic Schooling and Won. Now What?
Legislators Wanted 1,100 Reports on How California’s Laws Are Working. Most Haven’t Arrived
Katie Porter, Adam Schiff and Barbara Lee Swore Off Corporate PAC Money. What Does That Mean?
She Opened a Business to Deliver Babies. California Policies Drove Her Out of the Country
California Senate Leader Mike McGuire Picks His Team
Legislators Unveil Measure to Ask Voters for $1 Billion Offshore Wind Bond
Why California Might Mandate the ‘Science of Reading’ in All Schools
California Wants to Cap Your Medical Bills. Guess Who’s Pushing Back.
Los Angeles’ One Weird Trick to Build Affordable Housing at No Public Cost
Why California Legislators of Both Parties Want to Ban Homeless Encampments
Newsom Asked for a Bill to Legalize Psychedelic Therapy. Lawmakers Move to Give Him One
Last Chance to Apply for This High-Speed Internet Subsidy
Californians Bought Record Numbers of Electric Cars as Industry Eyes Slowdown
Cannabis Grower to Pay $750,000 for Violating State Water, Wildlife Regulations
‘This Is Just the Beginning’: California Reparations Advocates Applaud New Bills
January 2024
Should State Government Jobs Require a College Degree? Why California Is Rethinking Its Rules
Saving Salmon: Newsom Unveils Blueprint for Ending Decades-Long Decline
After Visit to Humboldt, Gov. Gavin Newsom Announces New State Strategy to Restore Salmon Runs
They’re Getting $1,000 a Month for 3 Years. How Guaranteed Income Is Changing Lives in L.A. County
Bill Would Let Therapists and Social Workers Decide When to Confine Mentally Ill Californians
California Lawmakers, Raising Fears of Political Violence, Want to Shield Their Properties
California Gave Fast Food Workers a Seat at the Table. What Comes Next?
How Big Is California’s Homelessness Crisis? Inside the Massive, Statewide Effort to Find Out
What’s Happened Since California Cut Home Solar Payments? Demand Has Plunged 80%
Approaching Bay Area Deadline a ‘Test Case’ for California’s Housing Crisis
What a GOP Fight Over Undocumented Health Care Says About California’s Changing Politics
350,000 Californians Are Now on the FAIR Plan, the Last Resort for Fire Insurance. Now What?
Cal State Faculty Ends Their Strike After Reaching a Tentative Contract Agreement
Cal State Faculty Strike Across All 23 Campuses in Historic Labor Walkout
California Picks Its Next Governor in More Than 1,000 Days. Why the Race Is Already So Crowded
Arcata’s Jana Ganion Named Governor Newsom’s ‘Senior Advisor for Offshore Wind’
California Ends COVID Isolation Rule for Asymptomatic Cases as Winter Infections Climb
Homelessness Is on the California Ballot This March. Will Conditions Change on the Street?
State Program to Clear Homeless Encampments Show Signs of Success, but Housing Remains Elusive
Parents’ Rights Groups Mobilize as California Advances a Ban on Youth Tackle Football
Why California Community Colleges Are Reluctant to Spend More Than $500 Million in State Money
Supreme Court Will Hear Case About Homeless Encampments, With Huge Implications for California
With Tighter Budgets, Police Seek Less Time in Court
Newsom OK’d a Minimum Wage Increase for Health Care Workers. Now He Wants to Delay It
Newsom Unveils Plan to Cut California Climate Funding
Digging Out: Newsom Outlines Plan to Cover State Budget Deficit
Cal State Faculty Union Vows to Strike Over the University’s Final Pay Offer
Supreme Court Case About Impact Fees Could Have Huge Consequences for Housing in California
As California Evictions Boom, Whether Tenants Get Lawyers Depends on Where They Live
Assm. Jim Wood Introduces Bill to Make Dungeness Crab the Official State Crustacean
Friendlier Prison Guards? Why Gavin Newsom’s Advisers Want Them at San Quentin
California Legislature Starts 2024 Session With Big Budget Deficit and Big Protest
California New Laws for 2024: Cheaper Vasectomies and Birth Control