Sacramento

June 2024

Could AI Reject Your Resume? California Tries to Prevent a New Kind of Discrimination

This Giant Freshwater Fish — North America’s Largest — Gains California Protection

A California Senior Lost $700K to Scammers. Now She’s Asking the State to Slow Bank Transfers

These Cities Have a New Tactic to Evade California Housing Laws. Legal Experts Are Dubious

‘Automatic’ Registration Would Boost California’s Voter Rolls. What’s the Downside?

Gavin Newsom and the Legislature Are Far Apart on College Spending as Budget Deadline Nears

How California’s Nonprofits Got Dragged Into a Fight Between Unions and Local Governments

This Seashell Could Be California’s Next State Symbol

California Pushes Insurers to Cover More Homes in These Areas — Including Humboldt County

Some California Officials Can Meet Remotely. For Local Advisory Boards, State Lawmakers Say No

California Gig Worker Law Withstands Challenge From Uber at Federal Appeals Court

Student Loan Relief Deadline Approaching for 300,000 California Borrowers

Why Gavin Newsom’s Gun Control Constitutional Amendment Hasn’t Gone Beyond California

California’s Highest Court Rejects ‘People as Pollution’ Argument for UC Berkeley Housing

Why Increasing Penalties for Assaulting ER Workers Is Dividing California Democrats

California Teachers Are Using AI to Grade Papers. Who’s Grading the AI?

What Biden’s Border Order Means for California

How Shots Instead of Pills Could Change California’s Homeless Crisis

Get Your Health Care Through Covered California? Beware of This Tax Peril

Forget the First 220 Failures to Split California. This Developer Has a New Plan to Secede

CA Senate Preserves Big Corporate Tax Breaks That Benefit Some Cities

May 2024

Raising a Kid in California? They May Have a College Savings Account You Don’t Know About.

California Sides With Big Utilities, Trimming Incentives for Community Solar Projects

How Did a Shoplifting Bill Get Through California’s Liberal Assembly With Most Democrats Opposed?

Newsom Unveils Plan That Would Hasten Insurance-Rate Reviews — and Increases

Legislative Leaders Counter on California Budget Deficit

Hispanic Serving Institutions Rely on Federal Funding to Support Latino Students. What Happens When the Money Ends?

Watch: Democrats Kill California Homeless Camp Ban, Again

The Legislature’s Top Expert on Tech Is Taking on the Industry

‘We Have to Do Less With Less’: Cal State Faces Extra $500 Million Budget Gap

California Lawmakers Advance Apology for Slavery, Funding Frameworks for Reparations

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

How California and the EU Work Together to Regulate Artificial Intelligence

California Climate Programs Would Lose Billions in Newsom’s Budget

The Single Largest Cut in Gavin Newsom’s New Budget Hits California Health Care Providers

California Could Require Age Verification to Visit Porn Sites

Scorching Schoolyards: California Groups Want More Trees, Less Asphalt at Schools

Potential Tough-On-Crime Ballot Measure Promises Less Homelessness. Experts Aren’t Convinced

What Drives California’s Budget Decisions? A Lot of Politics, Not as Much Data

These California Schools Connect Kids to Community Services. Will They Survive Budget Cuts?

Should California Doctors Report Domestic Abuse to Police? Here’s How Physician Lawmakers Voted

Gig Companies Spent $200 Million to Write Their Own Labor Law. The State Supreme Court Could Throw It Out

Newsom Releases Billions for Mental Health Housing Ahead of Schedule: ‘Time to Deliver’

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

Gavin Newsom’s Budget Proposal Ditches Promise to Fund 5 Years of Growth for UC and Cal State

How Vietnamese Lawmakers Struck Back When L.A. County Declared Jane Fonda Day

Should California Be Able to Require Sobriety in Homeless Housing?

Gov. Newsom’s Revised Budget, by the Numbers

Disconnected Youth: Some Young Californians Lack Work, School Options

Californians Will See Lower Electricity Rates and a New Fee That Won’t Vary With Power Use


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