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Lynn La is the newsletter writer for CalMatters, focusing on California’s top political, policy and Capitol stories every weekday. She produces and curates 중요한 것은 무엇인가, CalMatters’ flagship daily newsletter with more than 150,000 subscribers.    

In the newsletter, Lynn analyzes the state’s policy issues for a broader audience, through original reporting and by summarizing and compiling stories from CalMatters and other news sources. Recently, she has reported on bills to address California’s worsening fentanyl epidemic, tackle retail theft and legislate happiness. She also reveals more about lawmakers by interviewing them for an occasional series on first-term legislators in 2023 and new committee chairpersons in 2024. 

Through WhatMatters, Lynn also plays a crucial role in CalMatters election coverage, helping to keep track of daily developments in key campaigns, including legislative and congressional races and ballot measures.  

Prior to joining CalMatters in March 2023, she wrote for the education technology startup Guild and was a senior editor at CNET. She also covered public health at The Sacramento Bee as a Kaiser media fellow and was an intern reporter at Capitol Weekly. 

Lynn is based in the Bay Area. She graduated from UC Davis and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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From CalMatters economy reporter Levi Sumagaysay: Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a mostly upbeat message at an economic summit in Sacramento on Wednesday, especially when he was talking about California’s “resilient” economy. Despite what many headlines say about California’s supposed decline, “the good news is we’re still the fifth-largest economy in the world,” he told several […]
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California’s three U.S. Senate debates before the March primary were mostly staid affairs. Not Tuesday’s often spicy face-off between Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank and Republican Steve Garvey — their first and only one-on-one debate scheduled before the Nov. 5 election. As CalMatters politics reporter Yue Stella Yu explains, they clashed over abortion, guns, […]
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On Aug. 31, when Gov. Gavin Newsom called a special session on gas prices, California motorists were paying $4.61 per gallon on average, $1.27 more than the national average. On Monday, when the state Senate finally convened, prices were $4.68 in California, or $1.51 above the national average.  In between, there has been plenty of […]
에 의해 • 10월 8, 2024
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에 의해 • 10월 7, 2024
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Ever since Laphonza Butler took herself out of the running for U.S. Senate a year ago — just two weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom picked her to replace the late Dianne Feinstein — she has faded into the background quite a bit.  Thursday, to mark one year since the Democrat took the oath of office, […]
에 의해 • 10월 4, 2024
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에 의해 • 10월 3, 2024
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에 의해 • 10월 2, 2024
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While Gov. Gavin Newsom is in Mexico to attend the inauguration of its first female president, legislators’ work isn’t done — and some who also planned to go aren’t thrilled to be stuck in Sacramento.  Today, Assemblymembers will meet in a special session called by Newsom to consider legislation that seeks to ease gas price […]
에 의해 • 10월 1, 2024
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has until midnight tonight to act on the fewer than 40 bills remaining on his desk. As of Sunday, the proportion of bills that Newsom has vetoed since the Legislature adjourned Aug. 31 is about 19% (or 181 of nearly 960 measures).  Some notable bills the governor spiked over the weekend: Gov. […]
에 의해 • 9월 30, 2024
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From CalMatters Capitol reporter Alexei Koseff: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to combat gasoline price spikes appears headed to a long-awaited Assembly floor vote next week after passing out of committee on Thursday. But the politics of oil industry regulation are never that simple in California. To pass Assembly Bill X2-1, which would require refineries to […]
에 의해 • 9월 27, 2024

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Lynn La is the newsletter writer for CalMatters, focusing on California’s top political, policy and Capitol stories every weekday. She produces and curates WhatMatters, CalMatters’ flagship daily newsletter with more than 150,000 subscribers. Prior to joining CalMatters in March 2023, she wrote for the education technology startup Guild and was a senior editor at CNET. She also covered public health at The Sacramento Bee as a Kaiser media fellow and was an intern reporter at Capitol Weekly. Lynn is based in the Bay Area. She graduated from UC Davis and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Other languages spoken: Vietnamese (basic)