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California’s next Assembly speaker. Maybe.

Et tu, Rivas? Late Friday, just as legislators — and everyone else in the state — were preparing to check out for the long holiday weekend, an earthquake rocked the California political world: Assemblymember Robert Rivas, a Salinas Democrat, announced that he had “secured enough votes” to become the next speaker of the California Assembly. […]

에 의해 벤 크리스토퍼 • 5월 31, 2022

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Why single-payer health care failed in the Legislature

The unprecedented breadth and depth of the tax increase to fund single-payer health care is economically tone deaf.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 2월 8, 2022

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Eleven new California laws for 2022, explained in one minute

The new year brings a raft of new laws for Californians. They’re likely to affect what your neighborhood looks like, how safe you feel, what recourse you have against discrimination — even how you take out your trash. In 2021 the Legislature’s super-majority of Democrats sent Gov. Gavin Newsom hundreds of bills that he signed […]

에 의해 Byrhonda Lyons 그리고 CalMatters Staff • 12월 28, 2021

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The case of the vanishing fine: How a massive nursing home penalty eluded consumer detection

A Fresno nursing home was fined more than $900,000 in 2018 for poor patient care, but consumers have been hard-pressed to find any public record of the massive penalty or many other big fines.

에 의해 조셀린 위너 • 12월 15, 2021

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Transfer students need a clearly defined pathway

AB 928 builds on existing law and improves the pathway for community college students to transfer to California State University.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 9월 28, 2021

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California can help vulnerable communities prepare for blackouts

AB 418 would provide local governments needed resources to ensure that critical services remain available during blackouts.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 9월 22, 2021

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Embrace offshore wind as key part of the climate crisis solution

Gov. Gavin Newsom should sign AB 525 to help develop California’s offshore wind energy industry.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 9월 15, 2021

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State’s plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions harmful to farmers

Unfortunately, California’s approach to setting mandates to cut greenhouse gas emissions has left agriculture to become collateral damage.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 9월 8, 2021

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Two cannabis bills detrimental to public health and food safety

We can allow safer legal access to cannabis and useful hemp products without going backward in our commitments to public health and food safety.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 9월 7, 2021

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Farmworkers deserve the right to vote by mail in union elections

AB 616 will go a long way toward ensuring that farmworkers can decide, by free and fair elections, whether they wish to join a union.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 9월 2, 2021