June 12, 2020

Como una organización de servicio público financiada por sus donaciones, debemos ser transparentes sobre la equidad también dentro de CalMatters.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants every registered voter to receive a ballot in the mail for the November 2020 election, but a judge just put one of his executive orders on hold.

Blue Flame Medical alleges the collapse of its $609 million mask deal with California has trashed the reputations of its politically-connected founders and led to cancellation of numerous other contracts. 

Our journalists are focused today on issues of equity across California. But as a public-service organization funded by your donations, it’s important that we're transparent about equity inside CalMatters as well. Here’s what we’ve learned from a look at ourselves:

The pandemic has layered a health crisis on top of a housing crisis on top of a class divide. A clear pattern has emerged as the coronavirus spares some California neighborhoods and strikes others: The virus takes a heavier toll in neighborhoods where people pack into overcrowded homes, according to a CalMatters analysis of neighborhood-level […]

Until the pandemic struck, every day for the last 10 years, Isidoro Flores Contreras stood at the edge of the Sand City Costco parking lot, just a few feet from a set of McDonald’s arches, selling $15 flower bouquets.  No matter the weather, he slowly walked back and forth along the sidewalk, a hitch in […]

When coronavirus began spreading in California, public health officials told people who fell ill to isolate themselves in their homes for two weeks. But many California families simply can’t do that. Forced by the high cost of living, parents squeeze into rooms with their children, cousins sleep on couches, grandparents convert living rooms into bedrooms […]

California Sen. Kamala Harris is emerging as the top contender for Joe Biden's vice president amid protests over police brutality and racism in America.

If we want to address the racial injustice of the system and support all of California’s young people to succeed, we must think and act differently.

The decision to allow churches to reopen was undoubtedly good politics, but it begs the question: What about movie theatres?