Author Archives: Emily Hoeven

Emily Hoeven wrote the daily WhatMatters newsletter for three years at CalMatters . Her reporting, essays, and opinion columns have been published in San Francisco Weekly, the Deseret News, the San Francisco Business Times, the Flathead Beacon, the Daily Pennsylvanian, and the Mercury News. Emily graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and French and studied English at the University of Cambridge, England as a Thouron Summer Prize fellow. She speaks French fluently and spent a year teaching English in Châteauroux, France.

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Sheriff squad car at the Tehama County Sheriff's Office in Red Bluff on Dec. 9, 2022. The sheriff's office announced the stop of patrolling during the day, blaming a shortage of officers.

Will California subsidize rural police departments?

by Emily Hoeven December 14, 2022December 14, 2022

Signs for ridesharing company Lyft are visible along a freeway in San Francisco, California, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017. Photo by Karl Mondon, Bay Area News Group

How California is dealing with 3 elections at once

by Emily Hoeven December 13, 2022December 13, 2022

California’s Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot speaks in front of the site where City of Antioch Brakish Water Desalination Project is being built in Antioch on Aug. 11, 2022. Photo by Martin do Nascimento

Will California keep up its climate momentum?

by Emily Hoeven December 12, 2022December 12, 2022

A behavioral health fellow with the Baltimore City Health Department, displays a sample of Narcan nasal spray in Baltimore, Maryland. The overdose-reversal drug is a critical tool to easing America's coast-to-coast opioid epidemic. A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2020. Jan. 23, 2018. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

How will California handle the youth fentanyl overdose crisis?

by Emily Hoeven December 9, 2022December 9, 2022

Assemblyman Phil Ting speaks on the assembly floor at the California State Capitol in Sacramento, on June 27, 2022. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo

California budget season starts off with a bang

by Emily Hoeven December 8, 2022December 8, 2022

State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a press conference in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2022. Photo by Karl Mondon, Bay Area News Group

More housing, fewer prisons: California outlines game plan

by Emily Hoeven December 7, 2022December 7, 2022

Newly elected legislators are sworn in in the Senate chambers at the state Capitol on Dec. 5, 2022. Photo by Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters

Big tests ahead for new Legislature

by Emily Hoeven December 6, 2022December 6, 2022

The California Assembly chamber

An unusual start to the legislative session

by Emily Hoeven December 5, 2022December 5, 2022

A changing of the guard in Sacramento

by Emily Hoeven December 2, 2022December 2, 2022

As storm hits California, what about drought, wildfires?

by Emily Hoeven December 1, 2022December 1, 2022

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