December 18, 2019

Striking clinicians — spotlighting complaints that patients with serious mental illness face long waits and inadequate care — lay blame at the doorstep of the state Department of Managed Health Care.

Robert Lempert, RAND Corporation: As California and our nation head into uncharted territory due to climate change, all of us will need to learn how to adjust in response to changing risks. We will all need to become more adaptive by acting, learning, and responding. To survive our changing climate, we will need to understand that even what looks familiar no longer is.

Judge approves PG&E settlements with wildfire victims. Families of Ghost Ship fire victims can sue PG&E. State wrestles with how to tax weed.

Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn't like Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s plan to emerge from bankruptcy, but does he want a state takeover of the utility?