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CALQuiz: A Harris aide resigns, a housing bill returns, and the state works to stop floods

By Trevor Eischen

Commentary

My turn: The last time two Democrats exchanged power

Guest Commentary

RESISTANCE STATE

Trump fans flames by blaming wildfires on California, threatening to withhold federal funds

WHATMATTERS

School dashboards, Dieselgate power struggles, animal rights

State explores how to counteract end of Obamacare mandate‚ or risk a million more Californians without health insurance

By Elizabeth Aguilera

New California School Dashboard paints a colorful picture—in which one in three school districts needs help

By Ricardo Cano

ELECTION 2018

Your county's favorite? Where state props succeeded and failed across California

By Ben Christopher

GIMME SHELTER

What the election means for California's housing crisis

CALIFORNIA DREAM

The latest rip-off risk for elderly homeowners? Clean energy loans

By Amita Sharma, KPBS

Dan Walters

Commentary

Rethinking California’s electric utilities

Dec. 9, 2018

Weekly Walters 12/07/2018

Dec. 7, 2018

New water deal isn’t a political certainty

Dec. 6, 2018

Laurel Rosenhall

POLITICS

On Day One, hints of California’s Democratic agenda to come

Dec. 3, 2018

A deep blue sea of California lawmakers takes oath of office

Dec. 3, 2018

One lesson from Bauman’s resignation? MeToo isn’t going away

Nov. 29, 2018

Matt Levin

DATA POINTS

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

Sept. 5, 2018

What a $500,000 home looks like around California–and how it shapes where we move

May 17, 2018

Data dig: Big investment firms have stopped gobbling up California homes

April 4, 2018

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POLITICS

Jerry Brown's last stand on pension reform

ENVIRONMENT

Let it flow: In about-face, state breaks and shifts levees to restore natural floodplains

By Alastair Bland

K-12 EDUCATION

Tony Thurmond is the new schools chief. Now what?

By Ricardo Cano

HIGHER EDUCATION

Poll: California should guarantee minimum funding level for UC, CSU

By Felicia Mello

JUSTICE

With Supreme Court pick, Brown and Dems eye another kind of majority

HEALTH

As California areas record 'worst air' on earth, state needs to protect public after wildfires

By Elizabeth Aguilera

ECONOMY

What happens if PG&E goes bankrupt?

HOUSING

A gentler, still incredibly controversial housing bill is back—with a powerful new ally

Recent Articles

Today's docket: Pensions, CalSavers, Kamala Harris, YIMBYs and PG&E

Newsom gets climate advice, Atkins offers 'Trump insurance'

California's next Legislature takes shape

On Day One, hints of California's Democratic agenda to come

By Laurel Rosenhall

A deep blue sea of California lawmakers takes oath of office

By Laurel Rosenhall and Elizabeth Castillo

A new Legislature, a new session

Bauman's exit, PG&E's finances and fires give way to mudslides

One lesson from Bauman's resignation? MeToo isn't going away

By Laurel Rosenhall

CALQuiz: Women on corporate boards, the priciest ballot prop, and PG&E faces possible bankruptcy

By Trevor Eischen

Those flipped House seats created a visible Dem wave—but big blue shifts also lurked beneath the surface

By Ben Christopher

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