Sacramento
October 2020
Lawsuits and Labor Backlash: Prop. 22’s Cutthroat Final Days
California Democrats Swamp Republicans in Early Voter Turnout
Slated for Deception? Beware of All Those Glossy Mailers Telling You How to Vote
Now for Some Good News: California Praised for Recent Handling of Pandemic
Juvenile Justice Overhaul: How the Governor’s Plan Shifts Care of Serious Offenders to Counties
Why Do We Keep Voting on This? Exploring the Prop. 13 Tax Revolt Family Tree
Here’s Why Election Officials Say There’s No Need to Hand-Deliver Your Mail Ballot
Attorney General Becerra Takes Ballot Box Fight to Court
Mutual Aid: When Neighbors Look to Each Other for Pandemic Relief
Good Policy or Ballot Blackmail? Union Takes Its Fights With Health Industry to Voters
The ‘Speed of Trust’: California Wants Statewide Panel to Review Any COVID Vaccine
For Many Californians, the Pandemic Marks the End of ‘Barely Making It’
Amazon Workers Stage Vigil at Jeff Bezos’ Beverly Hills Mansion
California GOP in Legal Trouble for ‘Ballot Harvesting’ With Unofficial Drop Boxes
What No Trump Stimulus Means for California Schools, Unemployment and More
Workout Workaround: How Gyms Are Getting Themselves Reclassified as ‘Essential’
How California Expats Are Helping Turn Texas Into a Battleground State
Privacy Puzzle: Consumer Advocates Divided Over California’s Prop. 24
Lawmakers Want to Amend This Prop? It’ll Take a ‘Super, Super, Super-Duper Majority’
What to Know About Gig Worker Pay Before Voting on Prop. 22
How the Pandemic Reshaped California Politics in 2020
Unsafe to Drink: Wildfires Threaten Rural Towns With Tainted Water
California 2020 Ballot Propositions Explained in 1-Minute Videos
September 2020
LETTER FROM HUMBOLDT: A Mental Health ‘Tsunami’ Looms: Can California Prevent a Surge in Suicides?
‘Lower-Pay, Higher-Risk’: Coronavirus Layoffs Send Middle-Class Workers Down the Economic Ladder
If Californians Vote to Raise Taxes on Corporate Landlords, Will Small Biz Foot the Bill?
California’s Ancient ‘Asbestos’ Forests No Longer Seem Immune
CALIFORNIA EXODUS: An Online Industry Seizes COVID-19 to Sell the Red State Dream
Newsom Orders State to Ban New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035
Nail Salons Get Green Light to Reopen Indoors, COVID Testing Now Available to All
Trump and Newsom: Political Frenemies Make Nice Amid California’s Mounting Disasters
Suburban Blues: Where Democrats Have Gained Most in California
The Young Republican Lawyer Taking on California’s Governor
Democratic Squabbling Doomed California’s ‘Year of Housing Production.’ What Will Happen in 2021?
‘I Was Looking for Someone Like Me’
Newsom Weighs Aid for Undocumented Californians Weathering Pandemic With No Safety Net
Whipsawed: California and Other States Face Shifting Federal Messages Over Coming COVID Vaccine
Next Up: Californians Brace for the ‘Twindemic’
California Lawmakers Failed to Enact Sweeping Police Reforms. Here’s Why.
California’s Coronavirus Stimulus Was a Bust … What Now?
Tracking COVID-19: State Signs Multimillion-Dollar Contract for New Reporting System
Legislature Narrowly Rejects Nation’s Toughest Restrictions on Plastics
Unmasked: Tempers Flare and Patience Frays as California Lawmakers Hit Viral End of Session
Analysis: How Renters, Landlords and Banks Fared in the Eviction Compromise
August 2020
On the Verge of Becoming Law: These 2020 Bills Are Up to California’s Governor
Wildfire Funding Bill Poised to Die in California Legislature
Newsom, Lawmakers Strike Pandemic Eviction Deal. Here’s What You Need to Know