Sacramento

February 2023

California Homelessness: Where Are the State’s Billions Going? Here’s the New, Best Answer

Who Draws the Lines? A Big Push for Independent Local Redistricting

‘Cal Poly Homeless’: Does Northern California’s First Polytechnic University Have the Infrastructure to Support Its Growth?

The Fastest-Growing Homeless Population? Seniors

‘No Light at the Other End’: Impending Loss of Pandemic CalFresh Boosts Could Trigger Hunger Spike

Why California Still Doesn’t Mandate Dyslexia Screening

Utilities Commission Explores Ways to Mitigate High Natural Gas Prices

State Treasurer Fiona Ma Visits County Supes, Talks CalKIDS, Cannabis, Affordable Housing and More

Helping Homeowners: California Expands Mortgage Relief

Rules for Thee: How California Legislature Skirts Its Own Laws

California Lawmakers Try Again to Cap Insulin Costs

Will the State’s Big Medi-Cal Plan Really Fix Mental Health Care for Low-Income Californians?

California, Other States Reach Impasse Over Colorado River

January 2023

Thieves Drain Millions Off CalFresh and CalWORKs Recipients’ Cards, Families Wait and Taxpayers Pay

California Reparations Task Force Zeroes in on Who’d Be Eligible for Compensation

More Than a Million Undocumented Immigrants Gained Driver’s Licenses in California

State Justice Department Hasn’t Probed — or Even Logged — All Police Shootings of Possibly Unarmed People

College Enrollment Decline Leads to Funding Changes for Underperforming Cal State Schools

Would a Wealth Tax Actually Drive the Rich Out of California?

State COVID Testing Sites Begin to Close

Can California’s Power Grid Handle a 15-Fold Increase in Electric Cars?

Why You Should File Taxes Even if You Don’t Owe Any

Is California’s Drought Over? Here’s What You Need to Know About Rain, Snow, Reservoirs and Drought.

Environmentalists Say Newsom’s Budget Cuts Jeopardize Climate Programs, Electric Car Mandate

A ‘Resilient’ Budget: Gov. Newsom Outlines Plan to Deal With Deficit

Why Hospitals Are Struggling to Meet Earthquake Safety Deadline

The California Legislature Is Back: Five Key Questions

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

December 2022

Border Scramble: Why California Isn’t Financially Ready for Title 42 to End

Colleges Experiment With Restorative Justice in Sexual Assault Cases

Here’s What You Need to Know About California’s New Pay Transparency Law

Pandemic Catch Up: What Will It Take for Left-Behind Students to Learn to Read?

Saving Salmon: Chinook Return to California’s Far North — With a Lot of Human Help

California’s Residential Solar Rules Overhauled

California’s Only HBCU Aims to Solve Black Doctor Shortage

‘Catastrophic Staffing Shortage’ Hits California’s Rural Police First, and Hardest

Is California’s Drought Over? Water Providers Still Predict Shortages Next Year

Ballot Blockade: California Industries Rely on Referenda to Stop Laws

Study: Paid Family Leave in California Keeps Women in Jobs

More Street Medicine Teams Tackle the Homeless Health Care Crisis

BY THE NUMBERS: California’s Mild 2022 Wildfire Season

Going, Going, Gone: Feds Hold First-Ever Auction for California Offshore Wind Leases

Is California’s Beleaguered Jobless Benefits Agency Ready for a Recession?

A Top Prison Expert on the California ‘Disaster’ and How to Salvage It

November 2022

Cal Poly SLO Enrolls the Lowest Rate of Black Students Among All the State’s Public Universities

Mentally Ill Prisoners in California Are Three Times Likelier to Get Shuffled Around

How California Could Count Every Vote Faster

Slashing Greenhouse Gases: California Revises Climate Change Strategy

Nurse Practitioner Requirements Are Changing, Allowing Them to Practice Without Physician Supervision

Will This Be the Most Diverse California Legislature Ever?


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