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The podium before Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses the media to unveil his 2024-25 January budget proposal at the Secretary of State Auditorium in Sacramento on Jan. 10, 2024. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

Gut check: Newsom’s state budget proposal is already showing its shortcomings

It's been less than a month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his state budget proposal, and its rosier assumptions are already falling apart.

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• 2 月 6, 2024

Gaston Middle School in Fresno. Image via Fresno Unified School District

The fate of Fresno’s dicey school construction deal could affect projects across California

A decade-long legal dispute over the construction of a Fresno middle school seems to be reaching a climax. The outcome could affect other school construction projects in California.

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• 2 月 2, 2024

A "for sale" sign is posted in front of a home in Sacramento on March 3, 2022. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo

How will California overcome high living costs, high poverty and high debt?

Californians have a unique combination of high living costs, high poverty rates and large amounts of debt, factors that will likely influence debates over the state's budget deficit.

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• 2 月 1, 2024

Sacramento joins San Francisco as California’s slowest cities to recover from the pandemic

San Francisco is coping with a "doom loop" of declining employment and business activity in its downtown core, but a new study suggests Sacramento may be in worse shape.

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• 1 月 31, 2024

An Electrify America charging station in the parking lot of a center in Fresno on Jan. 29, 2024. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

California’s catalog of dysfunctional programs has a couple of new entries

California has amassed a catalog of programs and projects that fail to deliver as promised. The list of dysfunctional efforts has a couple of new entries.

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• 1 月 30, 2024

María Dolores Díaz keeps a bowl in the sink while she washes her hands to save water on Aug. 8, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

California regulators want to spend billions to reduce a fraction of water usage

Household use is a tiny fraction of California's overall water supply, but the state wants to spend billions of dollars to make a tiny reduction in that already infinitesimal bit of water consumption.

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• 1 月 26, 2024

Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses the media during a press conference unveiling his 2024-25 January budget proposal at the Secretary of State Auditorium in Sacramento on Jan. 10, 2025. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

Newsom budgets have a lousy track record forecasting California’s tax revenues

The revenue estimates in Gov. Gavin Newsom's recent budgets have been off by as much as $17 billion, fueling skepticism about his outlook on the state's financial reality.

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• 1 月 25, 2024

U.S. Senate debate raises key question: Will Republican Steve Garvey advance to November?

The four leading candidates for California's U.S. Senate race had their first debate Monday night. The question it raised is whether Republican Steve Garvey can finish second in the March primary to win a spot on the November ballot.

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• 1 月 23, 2024

A voter casts their ballot at a voting site at the California Museum in downtown Sacramento on June 7, 2022. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

California’s unique employee lawsuit law could be repealed if ballot measure passes

The Private Attorneys General Act is a unique California law making it easier for employees to sue their bosses. For two decades, it's been the subject of political and legal infighting but a pending ballot measure would decide its fate.

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• 1 月 23, 2024

Traffic moves along the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles on Nov. 22, 2022. Photo by Jae C. Hong, AP Photo

Outsiders love bashing California but residents are souring on the state, too

California is the state that the rest of the nation loves to hate, but a new poll finds that Californians, by a wide margin, are also sour on the state's direction.

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• 1 月 19, 2024