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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.

Other languages spoken: Vietnamese (basic)

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Gas prices are on a sign at a filling station along a highway, and cars are driving by.
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뉴섬, 가스 가격에 대한 계획 첫 번째 장애물 극복
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
A row of lawmakers sitting behind a dais as couple of people watch from the audience section of the room.
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뉴섬, 석유 대기업을 겨냥하다
It’s crunch time on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s special session: This morning, an Assembly committee will hear — and possibly vote on — his bill that would authorize the California Energy Commission to require oil refineries to keep a minimum stock of fuel as a way to curb gasoline price spikes. That’s an argument Republican legislators […]
에 의해 • 9월 26, 2024
Gov. Gavin Newsom sits at a table surrounded by three lawmakers behind him as he signs several documents.
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Will new laws improve housing for California farmworkers?
Many California farmworkers have long lacked safe and affordable places to sleep — an issue thrown into sharp relief after last year’s mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, which left seven agricultural workers dead.  To improve farmworker housing, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills on Tuesday at the Fresno headquarters of the nonprofit Central Valley […]
에 의해 • 9월 25, 2024
Members of the Select Committee On Happiness And Public Policy Outcomes listens to speakers during an informational hearing on at the California Capitol in Sacramento on March 12, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters
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California is pushing happiness — but people are worried
I’m back from holiday and am remaining decidedly happy to fight off any post-vacation blues. But most Californians, apparently, aren’t feeling too happy — a stark reality that the Legislature just tried to dig into. In the latest survey by the Public Policy Institute of California, most California adults (55%) said that the state is […]
에 의해 • 9월 24, 2024
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캘리포니아 패스트푸드 레스토랑의 반격
From CalMatters Capitol reporter Jeanne Kuang:  When California lawmakers, Gov. Gavin Newsom, fast food corporations and the Service Employees International Union announced an agreement to raise fast food workers’ wages, all sides seemed to accept the deal.  Except, that is, independent franchised restaurant owners — the ones who have to pay the raises, who said […]
에 의해 • 9월 12, 2024
A live audience watches a projected screen showing the 2024 presidential debate between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Trump appears on the left side of the screen, wearing a blue suit with a red tie, while Harris is on the right side.
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해리스와 트럼프는 많은 문제에 대해 논쟁을 벌였지만 캘리포니아는 그렇지 않았다.
From CalMatters politics reporter Yue Stella Yu: In the first — and perhaps only — presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump Tuesday night in Philadelphia, the duo tussled over abortion rights, health care, border security, international relations and more for 90 minutes. They managed to not mention California even […]
에 의해 • 9월 11, 2024
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캘리포니아 노숙자 수는 2022년 대비 8% 증가
An exclusive CalMatters analysis of the latest California homeless count reveals some good news and bad news: Though the growth rate of homelessness appears to be slowing, the overall number of unhoused Californians increased from two years ago. As CalMatters homelessness reporter Marisa Kendall explains, the data from the federally-mandated count that occurred in January […]
에 의해 • 9월 10, 2024
Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, talks to Dr. Mark Ghaly, Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency after announcing a partnership with Civica Rx, a non-for-profit pharmaceutical company intended to manufacture insulin for the state's CalRx Biosimilar Insulin Initiative, at a dramatically lower cost, during a visit to a Kaiser warehouse in Downey, on March 18, 2023. Photo by Damian Dovarganes, AP Photo
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캘리포니아의 주요 COVID 및 건강 고문이 사임
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s top health advisor during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic plans to step down. The governor praised Dr. Mark Ghaly as the country’s “most transformative leader in the health space” in recent years after announcing that the secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency is leaving the cabinet position at the end […]
에 의해 • 9월 9, 2024
A person, wearing a fedora, blue shirt and white pants, shouts alongside other protesters holding up signs against proposition 34.
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캘리포니아 임대료 통제 분쟁이 투표로 넘어감
From CalMatters politics intern Jenna Peterson: Amid a Southern California heat wave, about 300 advocates for rent control — with two 10-foot “greedy landlord” puppets — rallied Thursday in downtown Los Angeles, chanting: “The rent is too damn high!” Many advocates, including representatives from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and UNITE HERE Local 11, held signs […]
에 의해 • 2024년 9월 6일
A street vendor sells fans, mini pools and other products outside a white and red two-story house as a man in a bicycle passes by.
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캘리포니아의 가장 인기 있는 지역은 어디인가요?
For years even before the pandemic, California residents have been moving out of the state’s coastal regions and settling in other states or more inland. Populations in these inland areas have been steadily growing, as Californians look for more affordable and spacious housing. But as climate change renders heat waves more intense and common, living […]
에 의해 • 9월 5, 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.
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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)