October 29, 2018

This year, with hundreds of millions of dollars rolling into initiative campaigns over housing and health care, California has hit a new record: The $111 million campaign against Proposition 8 on kidney dialysis clinics amounts to the most money poured into a single side of a ballot measure in the United States—at least since electronic record-keeping began in 2002, and possibly ever.

Our elections reporter Ben Christopher is hosting a Reddit AMA on Tuesday at noon to answer your last-minute questions before Election Day next Tuesday.

The state’s affordability crisis prompts vows from gubernatorial candidates Gavin Newsom and John Cox to revive the California Dream.

Jerry Brown will scoot out in the nick of time. His successor will face the vice grip of a slowing economy and rising costs for pension-plan contributions and more bond payments.

A 2012 "reform" overseen by Gov. Jerry Brown reduced employers' costs of compensating workers for job-related disabilities, However, those costs are still very high relative to those in other states, and another round in the perpetual political war over the system will face Brown';s successor, almost certainly Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.