May 31, 2022

Private colleges want to change rules for how police respond to trespassing on campus. Students worry the proposal could lead to racial profiling.

The task force has voted to distinguish between descendants of enslaved people who immigrated to California from other states, and Black people who immigrated from other countries. Its arbitrary classifications are likely to have legal, political and cultural repercussions.

Et tu, Rivas? Late Friday, just as legislators — and everyone else in the state — were preparing to check out for the long holiday weekend, an earthquake rocked the California political world: Assemblymember Robert Rivas, a Salinas Democrat, announced that he had “secured enough votes” to become the next speaker of the California Assembly. […]

A scandal unfolding in Anaheim is the latest chapter in a long-running saga about corruption in Southern California cities.