May 18, 2023

California officials depend largely on residents filing complaints to find out about health and safety problems at mobile home parks. Here’s how to file a complaint.

In their twice-a-year exercise, legislators killed hundreds of California bills in the process known as the suspense file. They included ones on abortion access, climate and homelessness. The state budget deficit also made an impact.

EN RESUMEN Newsom está cerrando y reduciendo prisiones en todo el estado, poniendo en riesgo el futuro de más de mil estudiantes encarcelados. Los administradores universitarios dicen que tienen pocos recursos para ayudar. Read this article in English. Mientras California cierra tres prisiones más y reduce el tamaño de otras seis, algunos presos no están […]

EN RESUMEN Una ley de 2015 para brindar más transparencia a los viajes pagados para los legisladores de California ha llevado a que los grupos patrocinadores presenten solo dos formularios de divulgación. El autor de la ley dice que está siendo ignorada erróneamente. Read this article in English. Después de años de controversia sobre los […]

A 2015 law to bring more transparency to paid trips for California legislators has led to only two disclosure forms being filed by the sponsoring groups. The law's author says it is being wrongly ignored.

The difference in how politicians responded to the recent Los Angeles Unified School District strike and the ongoing writers' strike in Hollywood speaks to their respective places in L.A.'s political and cultural landscape. The writers' strike could ultimately cost Los Angeles billions of dollars and eliminate thousands of jobs, but the impact won't be felt for a while.

Newsom is closing and downsizing prisons across the state, putting the future of over a thousand incarcerated students at risk. College administrators say they have few resources to help.

Japan, Portugal, Switzerland — this is just a small sample of the many far-flung locations where California legislators travel, paid for by interest groups and nonprofit organizations. For the sake of transparency, lawmakers must submit trip reports to the Fair Political Practices Commission every year. The groups that pay for the travel, on the other […]