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Healthcare workers' union counts dialysis victory in dollars spent against it

Commentary

Pay-to-play ballot measures are flourishing

RESISTANCE STATE

Judge rules Huntington Beach doesn’t need to obey ‘sanctuary law’

WHATMATTERS

Boos, catcalls and hard choices on homelessness

Santa Rosa mayor, one year after the fires: 'Building denser downtown is the future of this city'

Majority Report: Two debates is better than one edition

By Ben Christopher

ELECTION 2018

Democrats get big bucks from small-dollar donors

GIMME SHELTER

Gimme Shelter podcast: The crossover with "L.A. Podcast"

CALIFORNIA DREAM

Homelessness: I feel your pain, or do I?

By Amita Sharma, KPBS

Dan Walters

Commentary

Pay-to-play ballot measures are flourishing

Oct. 21, 2018

Weekly Walters 10/19/2018

Oct. 19, 2018

Feinstein-de León Senate debate changed nothing

Oct. 18, 2018

Laurel Rosenhall

POLITICS

As complaints mount about fire clean-up, disaster contractor gives big money to California Dems

Oct. 9, 2018

A disrupter from day one: How Kevin de León became the Democrat trying to topple Dianne Feinstein

Oct. 4, 2018

Jerry Brown paddles left, paddles right on #MeToo laws

Oct. 2, 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

Wish choosing candidates was as easy as shopping for cars? It is, with our side-by-side comparison tool

ENVIRONMENT

Tracking California's deadly wildfires

K-12 EDUCATION

VIDEO: Tony Thurmond, Marshall Tuck on California's public school system

By Byrhonda Lyons

HIGHER EDUCATION

Why Stockton believes a Cal State could seal its comeback

By Felicia Mello

JUSTICE

Last stop: On these 2018 California bills, it's the governor's call

HEALTH

Why do California babies have syphilis in numbers rivaling those of poor nations?

ECONOMY

Gimme Props: Undecided on the ballot measures? Play our quick game

By John Osborn D'Agostino

HOUSING

As California struggles to house the homeless, some neighbors say 'welcome'

Recent Articles

CALQuiz: Trump talks wildfires, the Senate candidates meet and the power goes out

By Trevor Eischen

Follow the money, large and small-dollar donor edition

Feinstein and de León debate in lopsided forum

By Ben Christopher

Senate goes digital, GOP for Poizner, high-speed rail

Poizner's independent run has a red tint

Those DMV snafus, lead paint decision and cancer rates

What’s behind all those DMV voter-registration snafus? ‘Motor voter’ may have launched with makeshift computer system

By Laurel Rosenhall

Midterms missionaries: Voices inside one of California's hottest Congressional battlegrounds

By Ben Christopher

Campaign money, McCarthy's 'Cherokee' in-law, CA history

AIDS foundation goes all in for rent control initiative

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