Sacramento
June 2024
Lawmakers Reach Agreement on $10 Billion School Bond
Supreme Court Gives Cities in California and Beyond More Power to Crack Down on Homeless Camps
Parents’ Lawsuit Forces California Schools to Track Discrimination Against Students
Ballot Measure Madness: How California Lawmakers Are Scrambling the November List
A ‘Lifeline’ for California’s Rural Schools Is About to Expire. Why Is It Stalled in Congress?
‘Excruciatingly Slow’: Delays in Workers’ Comp Payments Harm Firefighters, Frustrate Therapists
The Effort to Bring Back Affirmative Action in Limited Form Is Dead
How Election Conspiracy Theories Tore Apart This Northern California County
What You Need to Know About the California Budget Deal
‘It’s Frustrating’: Why a Gay California Senator Is Annoyed by His Own LGBTQ Health Info Bill
Still Need Your Landline? California Regulators Just Stopped AT&T From Pulling the Plug
High Court Blocks Anti-Tax Measure From California Ballot
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
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
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