Today’s socially distanced oral argument was just the latest installment in a nearly decade’s long legal drama that pits unionized public sector workers against cash-strapped state and local governments and pension debt hawks.
Since the coronavirus pandemic, the Democratic governor of "the most un-Trump state in America," as he once termed it, has been so conciliatory toward the president — and so unlike that of Democratic governors elsewhere — that he's being praised by Republicans and Fox News.
With Heather Hiles's resignation, California’s first-in-the-nation online community college now has 450 students — with no full-time faculty, no CEO and no political champion. What will Calbright's future be?
Homelessness, education, climate action, health, consumer protection, school lunches: Gov. Gavin Newsom's agenda couldn't differ more from President Donald Trump's. Budgets are a statement of values, notes Newsom. Here’s what his choices say about California’s.
As California lawmakers return for a new year, Anthony Rendon (the Assembly leader, not the ball player) talks wildfires, housing, ballot measures, the gig economy, affirmative action, Gov. Gavin Newsom and supermajorities. And babies. And home runs.
Public companies headquartered in California have until Jan. 1 to name at least one female director. The new law has prompted some widely anticipated lawsuits — and some surprising boardroom diversity.
In the lead opinion, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye says the state constitution makes clear "it is the voters who must decide" whether a presidential candidate's refusal to publicly share tax returns will have consequences at the ballot box. Many constitutional law experts, former Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Republican Party are now all officially entitled to say, "I told you so."