October 21, 2020

At a CalMatters virtual event, people in Paradise and fire experts recalled the terror that gripped the town and discussed rebuilding and resiliency in California.

   Lea este artículo en español. In August, as lightning strikes ignited fires around his Napa County home, Ian MacMillan escaped the flames with his wife, three kids and mother-in-law. A month later, when another wildfire roared through Northern California’s wine country, they had to flee their home again. “It sounded like a war zone,” MacMillan, […]

California election officials assure voters their ballot is safe in drop boxes and the mail, yet some voters are hand delivering anyway.

Crecí en el Valle de San Joaquín, y la contaminación del aire allí ha tenido impactos muy reales en mi salud y en la salud de mi familia.

El apoyo del partido Demócrata, altos funcionarios del estado y varios medios de comunicación no ha dado lugar a una ventaja para el lado del Sí en las encuestas. La opinión de los votantes sobre la acción afirmativa en teoría y en la práctica es parte de la razón.

More than 4.5 million Californians have already cast ballots in the 2020 general election — and there’re still 12 days to go.  Roughly one-fifth of the 21.5 million ballots mailed to registered voters had been processed as of Tuesday evening, blowing away previous election totals. About three times as many California residents have participated in […]

A national environmental organization is preparing to sue Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration for issuing new fracking permits, including six approved on Friday, Kassie Siegel, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, told me Tuesday. The news comes a day after Newsom delivered the keynote speech at a major event devoted to California […]

Endorsements from the Democratic party, high-ranking state officials, and several media outlets hasn’t translated to a commanding lead for the Yes side in the polls. How voters feel about affirmative action in a vacuum versus in practice is part of the reason why.

Flo Hodes is doing everything she can to avoid post-Election Day BS. A Democratic voter living in Oakland, she has watched with mounting concern President Donald Trump’s refusal to say whether he will abide by the reported election results, his continued efforts to undermine public confidence in voting by mail, and recent operational changes at […]

The tax revolt started in California in 1978, but it never really ended. Four decades ago mad-as-hell voters banded together to pass Proposition 13, capping property taxes, slapping a constitutional muzzle on state government and wringing local budgets like a washcloth. The electorate’s anti-tax fever may have broken in the years since, but the legacy […]