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Online wine yes, coffee no: Scrambling to keep up with California's new Prop. 65 toxic warnings

Commentary

Charter schools’ have a destructive impact on public education

Guest Commentary

Election 2020

Could the path of a GOP revolt against Trump run through east Los Angeles?

By Ben Christopher

WHATMATTERS

Tough talk and naked mannequins

California's public school chief says education no place for competition

By Ben Christopher

Women surfers push beyond equal pay—even if it means letting men into the water, too

By Laurel Rosenhall

Inside the Capitol

Connected Bay Area recruiter gets no bid contract as online community college staffs up

GIMME SHELTER

San Diego's mayor explains why he became a "YIMBY"

CALIFORNIA DREAM

New reality: More retirees find themselves caring for their very elderly parents

By Amita Sharma, KPBS

Dan Walters

Commentary

Weekly Walters 03/22/2019

March 22, 2019

School accountability good for some, not others?

March 21, 2019

Democrats defying the will of voters

March 20, 2019

Laurel Rosenhall

POLITICS

Women surfers push beyond equal pay—even if it means letting men into the water, too

March 21, 2019

Saying death penalty no longer “an abstract question,” Gov. Newsom halts executions in California

March 12, 2019

Three things to know about California’s data privacy fight

Feb. 28, 2019

Matt Levin

DATA POINTS

Find yourself in the California Legislature—or not

Jan. 8, 2019

Analysis: Low number of lung cancer deaths saved California more than half a billion

Oct. 24, 2018

Californians still really like Prop. 13—except for the big parts they don’t like

Sept. 5, 2018

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POLITICS

California lawmakers debate how to prevent another college admissions scandal

By Felicia Mello

ENVIRONMENT

Utilities pushed toward fire prevention as Edison is blamed for Thomas Fire

K-12 EDUCATION

'Common sense regulations' or 'an extended middle finger'—how far will California go on charter schools?

By Ricardo Cano

HIGHER EDUCATION

Amid Trump's border showdown, UC immigration lawyer comforts and fights

By Felicia Mello

JUSTICE

Saying death penalty no longer "an abstract question," Gov. Newsom halts executions in California

By Laurel Rosenhall

HEALTH

For families across California, a desperate struggle to get mental health care

By Jocelyn Wiener

ECONOMY

Skip the slip? California lawmaker wants email receipts to replace paper ones

By Elizabeth Castillo

HOUSING

To help people off the streets and into shelters, welcome their pets?

By Elizabeth Castillo

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Spring assortment: Scooters, speech, shopping, gardens, homes, wildlife

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Legislators test Newsom, school layoffs, mind-bending hemp rules

Unionizing daycare? California's child care workers seek a seat at the big kids' table

By Ben Christopher

College cheating, UC immigration, drought ends and rent control returns

Newsom's death row reprieves, the mob hit that informed his decision, Edison's fire report

Newsom moves to end death penalty, college admissions fraud, legislator accused

Newsom's housing plan, warnings about new taxes, independent voters

California has a giant surplus—of ideas for new taxes. What's up with that?

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