June 23, 2023

To help close a $31.5 billion deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature are considering cuts to key climate programs. As an alternative, environmental advocates are asking leaders to instead slash subsidies for oil and gas corporations.

CalMatters’ newest hires improve our coverage of education and homelessness and boost engagement and fundraising.

You have to be 18 to get divorced in California, but there’s no minimum age to get married. Child marriage survivors protested at the state Capitol, but the Legislature likely won’t act until next year.

From Wendy Fry of CalMatters’ California Divide team and CalMatters politics intern Rya Jetha: Next Thursday, California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations plans to hand over to the state Legislature its extensive report and recommendations for how to compensate eligible Black Californians for the enduring harms of slavery.  As historic a moment it may be, […]