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A person dressed in medical scrubs places a stethoscope on a patient's back during a blood pressure and blood sugar test. The patient wears a beige fedora and sits near a medical bed inside a clinic.

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Medi-Cal faces funding emergency from state miscalculations, federal budget cuts

Gov. Gavin Newsom is retracting Medi-Cal for immigrants, years after he wrongly figured a state surplus. And President Trump is cutting health funds to states.

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댄 월터스

• 3월 24, 2026

Traffic on Highway 50 in Sacramento on June 30, 2022. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

논평

If California forces state workers to commute, it passes up $225 million in savings. Can we afford that?

State workers must go to offices four days a week starting July 1. But if lawmakers let them telework, they’d save on gas and reduce carbon emissions.

By Wasim Ali • 3월 20, 2026

A Fresno resident uses an umbrella to shield herself from the sun as they walk through Tower District in Fresno on Aug. 30, 2022. Temperatures hit 104 degrees as a heatwave begins to hit the San Joaquin Valley. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

환경

California is spending hundreds of millions on heat. Will it ever be a public health priority?

As heat becomes a year-round reality, California is often still responding like it’s an emergency.

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아나 B. 이바라

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알레한드라 레이예스-벨라르데

• 3월 19, 2026

César Chávez speaks at a podium, gesturing with both hands, with a microphone in front and a U.S. flag and blue curtain behind him.

정치

California leaders lionized César Chávez. Now, they face a reckoning with his past

Leaders up and down California, many of whom were personally inspired by his life’s work, are grappling with multiple allegations of sexual assault by César Chávez.

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그리고

• 3월 18, 2026

정당성

Newsom closed 5 California prisons. Why lawmakers might want to shut one more

California is incarcerating 70,000 fewer people than in 2010, enabling the Newsom administration to close five state prisons. It has capacity to shut one more, according to a new analysis.

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Adam Ashton

• 3월 18, 2026

A sign from the Unrig California campaign lists corporate profit figures, executive pay and median worker pay alongside a QR code inviting people to join the campaign, with an illustration of a shipping box in the background.

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Billionaires bolt from blue states amid tax fears, mirroring rebellion in ‘Atlas Shrugged’ novel

In Ayn Rand's novel, society suffered after business leaders and other achievers left. Will that really occur if a tax chases away the rich?

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댄 월터스

• 3월 17, 2026

A Shell gas station price sign displays the cost of regular, plus, V-Power gasoline, and renewable diesel. A car is parked near the pumps beneath the station canopy in the background.

환경

California passed a law to curb spikes in gas prices. Why isn’t it using those powers now?

California built a first-in-the-nation system to police refinery profits during price spikes. Regulators delayed it for five years.

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알레한드로 라조

• 3월 13, 2026

The inside of a building under construction with exposed framing and tools laying around.

노숙자

10 projects from Newsom’s mental health bond were supposed to open in 2025. That didn’t happen

Projects that are supposed to offer mental health and substance use care to foster youth, new mothers, unhoused people and other vulnerable Californians have been delayed or cancelled.

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마리사 켄달

• 3월 12, 2026

주택

California has 40,000 affordable housing units ready to break ground. One setback is holding them up

Tens of thousands of affordable units across California are stuck in financial purgatory, according to a new report. Will more money get them moving?

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벤 크리스토퍼

• 3월 9, 2026

Flanked by lawmakers and gun safety advocates, Gov. Gavin Newsom signs new gun legislation into law at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on Sept. 26, 2023.

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A podcaster gave Newsom a gun. Are California laws keeping him from taking it home?

Last year, conservative podcaster Shawn Ryan gave Gavin Newsom a SIG Sauer handgun, which the governor has yet to take home. To do so, Newsom would have to navigate a complicated web of California gun laws.

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라이언 사발로우

• 3월 6, 2026