Dan Morain joined CalMatters in March 2018. He is the former editorial page editor of The Sacramento Bee. Morain also spent 27 years at The Los Angeles Times, and has covered the Capitol since 1992.
Turns out the nonbinary gender law impacts everyone who's a teen driver. A deal on a police shooting bill dissolves. A 2020 poll. And CA's privacy law.
A GOP mayor embraces refugees in CA, Gabby Giffords wants CA to triple gun control spending, pulling the plug in fire weather and Westlands' man at Interior.
The Rams may be in the Super Bowl, but CA high school football is declining. Private prisons could be phased out. And a new bill addresses police shootings.
Revisiting lethal force, the death penalty and humane treatment of inmates. LAUSD trusts in state funding. Soda lobbyists. PG&E lets the bankruptcy begin.
PG&E closes in on bankruptcy, fire data hints at tougher utility regulation and losses in November's fires alone cost more than the U.S. govermmen shutdown.
Dan Morain joined CalMatters in March 2018. He is the former editorial page editor of The Sacramento Bee. Morain also spent 27 years at The Los Angeles Times, and has covered the Capitol since 1992.