2021

Water banking and trading are essential tools for managing the state’s groundwater, and we urgently need to make them work better.

Some parents are being forced to decide between risking sending their kids with disabilities to school and getting all their needs met or keeping them at home and forfeiting their special education services.

Fresh from beating back a recall, the governor signed a package of bills to address the California housing crisis. But what do these new laws mean for housing affordability in a state where median home prices have already shot past $800,000?

We can create opportunity and work collaboratively to shape a world that narrows wealth and income inequality.

California has a big stake in whether President Joe Biden's "human infrastructure" proposal is passed because it could affect how high-income Californians are taxed.

Nearly two-thirds of Californians who voted in the recall election voted to keep Gov. Gavin Newsom in office. This week, CalMatters’ Ben Christopher and Laurel Rosenhall join the podcast to discuss what the election outcome means for the 2022 gubernatorial race and the bills sitting on Newsom’s desk from the end of the Legislative session. […]

While counties with high COVID-19 vaccination rates tended to vote no in the California recall and vice-versa, other political factors played a major role. In some Democratic counties, the no vote was even higher than the vaccination rate.

En resumen Los sobrevivientes de la trata sexual y de personas se unen a los agentes de la ley locales para instar al gobernador Gavin Newsom a firmar un proyecto de ley que borraría más rápidamente los antecedentes penales no violentos de las víctimas. Read this article in English.    Cuando Arien García escapó por primera vez […]

Good morning, California. It’s Friday, September 17. Newsom takes new tack Actions speak louder than words. It’s a message that Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to be trying to send to voters after defeating an attempt to oust him from office — and with yet another election next year. Newsom on Thursday signed into law a […]

Survivors of sex and human trafficking join local law enforcement officials in urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign a bill that would erase victims' nonviolent criminal records faster.