Alastair Bland

Arial view of Sacramento River and San Joaquin River Delta.

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Water is life. It’s also a battle. So what does the future hold for California?

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Weakling or bully? The battle over CEQA, the state’s iconic environmental law

Environment

Weakling or bully? The battle over CEQA, the state’s iconic environmental law

Let it flow: In about-face, state breaks and shifts levees to restore natural floodplains

Health

Let it flow: In about-face, state breaks and shifts levees to restore natural floodplains

Meet the newest recruits in California’s war on climate change: carbon farmers

Health

Meet the newest recruits in California’s war on climate change: carbon farmers

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Arial view of a residential neighborhood near train tracks in Bell Gardens, East LA County. Photo by J. Emilio Flores, courtesy of Cal State LA

No jobs, no tests, no savings: Southeast LA County hit hard by pandemic

A pedestrian crosses an empty intersection in San Francisco financial district at evening rush hour on May 7, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Many believe worst of pandemic yet to come

daca

Dreamers have been political pawns for far too long

California recovery

California needs to create a just and equitable recovery

A woman pushes a cart past the shuttered Fox Theater in downtown Oakland on March 25, 2020. Today it was announced that Alameda, along with five area counties, would extend school closures through May 1 in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

It’s an easy decision to vote against tax increases on commercial property

California Capitol. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Allowing Legislature to act more secretly