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Can California find solutions to homelessness in Texas?

When you’re facing an intractable crisis like homelessness, you’ll try to find answers anywhere.  Despite a recent history of quarreling governors, California officials are looking at Texas. And maybe for good reason: While California’s homeless population grew by 43% (and 439 out of every 100,000 residents are homeless), Texas’ homeless population shrunk by nearly a […]

에 의해 린 라 • 6월 28, 2023

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Rents soared 151%. Under California’s new law, tenants are getting a refund

Tenants complained about steep rent increases from a Silicon Valley landlord. Now, 20 of them will get a refund under a state rent control law.

에 의해 벤 크리스토퍼 • 6월 14, 2023

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California attorney general should resolve lagging police cases before pursuing bid for governor

The California Justice Department is struggling to complete dozens of investigations into police shootings required under a 2020 law. A mother of one victim questions the intent of the law and what Bonta's handling of it means for his rumored aspirations for higher office.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 6월 2, 2023

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California promised a fair review of her son’s death by police. Now she’s asking them to drop it

A 2021 state law took investigations into California police shootings out of the hands of local cops. Now, some families say the new system is agonizing in its own way.

에 의해 나이젤 두아라 • 5월 17, 2023

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California has tried to cut the cost of insulin for years. Why it might finally succeed

To fight the skyrocketing cost of insulin, California is using multiple tactics, including making its own generic versions.

에 의해 크리스틴 황 • 5월 17, 2023

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The long wait for California families on police shootings

Spurred by public outcry for more police accountability following the 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the Legislature ordered the California Department of Justice to investigate police killings of unarmed civilians. At the time, legislators who introduced the bill — including then-Assemblymember and current Attorney General Rob Bonta — pledged that investigations would be […]

에 의해 린 라 • 5월 17, 2023

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta goes after the NFL, and tobacco

As California’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Rob Bonta has plenty of leeway for his to-do list. This week, he’s using his powers widely on some hot-button issues. NFL sexual harassment: Saying that no company is too big or powerful to be “above the law” Bonta announced a joint investigation on Thursday with New […]

에 의해 린 라 • 5월 5, 2023

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California backlog persists on illegal guns

From CalMatters criminal justice reporter Nigel Duara: California’s first-in-the-nation program to take guns away from people prohibited by courts from owning them continues to tread water: A backlog of cases numbering between 23,000 and 24,000 people has stubbornly persisted, even as Attorney General Rob Bonta insisted on Monday that the program is making progress.  “That’s […]

에 의해 린 라 • 4월 4, 2023

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In California Legislature, 500 bills beat the deadline

California doesn’t really need 2,600 new laws, right?  Nevertheless, state lawmakers proposed 500 new bills on Friday, the 2023 session’s introduction deadline, bringing the total to about 2,600. That’s the most in more than a decade, according to veteran Capitol lobbyist Chris Micheli. More than 1,000 are “placeholder” bills without specific language. Reminder: More bills […]

에 의해 사메아 카말 • 2월 21, 2023

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Insurance giant gets California contract, pays $215 million settlement

From CalMatters health reporter Kristen Hwang:  California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday announced a $215.3 million settlement against Centene Corp., a multi-billion dollar health care company that is the state’s largest commercial Medi-Cal insurer, with 20 contracts.  Centene is also the parent company of Health Net, which just won a lucrative contract for Medi-Cal, […]

에 의해 벤 크리스토퍼 • 2월 9, 2023