May 2022

This year's California elections are a venue for the state Legislature's power struggle, pitting progressive Democrats against business -friendly moderates.

Three voter-approved provisions of the state constitution have a major impact on how the California state budget is fashioned and they are having a big effect as the state sees a flood of new revenues.

En resumen Al priorizar oficialmente el trabajo a tiempo parcial como una forma de que los estudiantes paguen la universidad, la UC se acercó a su objetivo de que los estudiantes eviten préstamos onerosos para 2030. Read this article in English.    La Universidad de California promete ofrecer a sus estudiantes universitarios de California una experiencia universitaria […]

By officially prioritizing part-time work as a way for students to pay for college, the University of California moved closer to its goal of students avoiding burdensome loans by 2030.

Ethnic studies can teach our children about their commonalities and their unique identities. Civics can teach them how to work toward compromise. California’s plan, however, is for these lessons to be taught separately. That makes no sense.

There wasn’t a lot of light on what state lawmakers got up to on Thursday — literally. First, there was the power outage that swept across downtown Sacramento, delaying the start of the Assembly and Senate’s floor sessions. But it would have been understandable if you were left in the dark even after the electricity […]

On suspense file day, legislators killed about 220 California bills on issues including education, health care, housing and workers.

Eight months into my first year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, in May 2021, I visited the university campus for the first time. Because of the pandemic, I was taking class virtually from 200 miles away, and repeated COVID-19 spikes pushed a campus visit down on my list of priorities.  Seeing San Luis Obispo […]

The average price of a gallon of gas has officially surpassed $6 for the first time in California — and U.S. — history. The Golden State set a new record Wednesday with an average per-gallon cost of $6.05, though the price climbed as high as $7 in remote Mono County, according to AAA. The national […]

En resumen Hablamos con los californianos sobre las prioridades de gastos del estado, las cuales trazaron en un juego especial de CalMatters la primavera pasada. El estado tiene un superávit récord este año. Read this article in English.    Los bolsillos de California son más profundos que nunca. El gobernador Gavin Newsom anunció recientemente que el estado […]