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Building a controversial tunnel on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, shown here on June 22, 2023, would cost $20 billion. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

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Will cataloging California’s top policy issues inspire politicians to think long term?

California has many long-term public policy issues, but politicians tend to have short attention spans. A new legislative report that catalogs major issues could spur action.

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• 2월 13, 2024

A jumbo TV screen at the entrance of a restaurant in Florence, Kentucky promotes sports betting at Turfway Park Racing & Gaming, on Dec. 22, 2023. Photo by Carolyn Kaster, AP Photo

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Ironically, Californians and Missourians can’t legally bet on their Super Bowl teams

Sunday's Super Bowl in Las Vegas, the world capital of gambling, symbolizes the new alliance between professional sports leagues and the gambling industry. However, residents of the states with teams in the game, California and Missouri, cannot legally bet on it.

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• 2월 9, 2024

A pedestrian carries an umbrella while walking past a Silicon Valley Bank Private branch in San Francisco on March 14, 2023. Photo by Jeff Chiu, AP Photo

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Will California leaders nurture or strangle the state’s economic golden goose?

California's economic personality has undergone several dramatic changes over its 174-year history. How will state leaders address the economy's underlying problems and prepare for its uncertain future?

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• 2월 8, 2024

The state Capitol in Sacramento on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Photo by Rahul Lal, CalMatters

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‘Trailer bills’ allow California lawmakers to enact policies with little public input

Over the last four decades, as California's state budget became more complicated, governors and legislators have used "trailer bills" to sometimes pass major legislation with little or no public input.

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• 2024년 2월 7일

The podium before Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses the media to unveil his 2024-25 January budget proposal at the Secretary of State Auditorium in Sacramento on Jan. 10, 2024. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

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Gut check: Newsom’s state budget proposal is already showing its shortcomings

It's been less than a month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his state budget proposal, and its rosier assumptions are already falling apart.

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• 2월 6, 2024

Gaston Middle School in Fresno. Image via Fresno Unified School District

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The fate of Fresno’s dicey school construction deal could affect projects across California

A decade-long legal dispute over the construction of a Fresno middle school seems to be reaching a climax. The outcome could affect other school construction projects in California.

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• 2월 2, 2024

A "for sale" sign is posted in front of a home in Sacramento on March 3, 2022. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo

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How will California overcome high living costs, high poverty and high debt?

Californians have a unique combination of high living costs, high poverty rates and large amounts of debt, factors that will likely influence debates over the state's budget deficit.

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• 2월 1, 2024

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Sacramento joins San Francisco as California’s slowest cities to recover from the pandemic

San Francisco is coping with a "doom loop" of declining employment and business activity in its downtown core, but a new study suggests Sacramento may be in worse shape.

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• 1월 31, 2024

An Electrify America charging station in the parking lot of a center in Fresno on Jan. 29, 2024. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

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California’s catalog of dysfunctional programs has a couple of new entries

California has amassed a catalog of programs and projects that fail to deliver as promised. The list of dysfunctional efforts has a couple of new entries.

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• 1월 30, 2024

María Dolores Díaz keeps a bowl in the sink while she washes her hands to save water on Aug. 8, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

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California regulators want to spend billions to reduce a fraction of water usage

Household use is a tiny fraction of California's overall water supply, but the state wants to spend billions of dollars to make a tiny reduction in that already infinitesimal bit of water consumption.

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• 1월 26, 2024