Guest Commentary

Journalists watch Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis debate Gov. Gavin Newsom in Alpharetta, Georgia, on Nov. 30, 2023. Photo by Elijah Nouvelage, Reuters

Newsom deserves credit for doing what few Democrats will, confronting GOP in DeSantis debate

December 1, 2023December 1, 2023 by Garry South

Democrats need to push back more aggressively against the GOP, argues veteran strategist Garry South. Gavin Newsom has been doing this in so many ways, and the debate with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was part of that.

Technology leaders attend a generative artificial intelligence meeting in San Francisco, as the city is trying to position itself as the “AI capital of the world." June 29, 2023. Photo by Carlos Barria, Reuters

Commentary

Californians want lawmakers to safeguard elections from artificial intelligence

November 30, 2023November 29, 2023 by Jonathan Mehta Stein

Construction of what will be one of the largest mass timber towers in the world at 1510 Webster St. in downtown Oakland on Aug 7, 2023. Of the 222 units 35 are designated affordable housing for households earning around 80% of the Area Median Income. Photo by Semantha Norris, CalMatters

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The private sector is failing to address California’s housing crisis. Social housing shows promise

November 29, 2023November 28, 2023 by Cynthia Strathmann

Condoms distributed freely by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation at a news conference in Los Angeles on Feb. 14, 2023. Photo by Damian Dovarganes, AP Photo

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Despite Newsom veto, California should still provide free condoms to public school students

November 28, 2023November 27, 2023 by Ria Babaria and Martin Orea

Allie Felker in the nursery of her 2 year-old daughter, Octavia, her first living child, at her home in Livermore on Nov. 13th, 2023. Photo by Laure Andrillon for CalMatters

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As hospitals and maternity wards close, here’s one way California can prevent stillbirths

November 15, 2023November 14, 2023 by Allie Felker

A grower tends to cannabis plants at the Pure Beauty growing site in Sacramento on Jan. 26, 2022. Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

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California wants to rollback environmental rules for cannabis. That won’t help ailing growers

November 14, 2023November 13, 2023 by Rosalie Liccardo Pacula and Michael Sutton

Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Laphonza Butler to the U.S. Senate at the Capitol in Washington D.C. on on Oct. 3, 2023.

Commentary

Why Newsom’s Senate appointment gives California voters more power in the 2024 election

November 13, 2023November 10, 2023 by Joshua Spivak

Guards and inmates in the yard at San Quentin State Prison on March 17, 2023. Photo by Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters

Commentary

San Quentin Prison is decaying and California would rather ‘transform’ it than fix it

November 9, 2023November 8, 2023 by Kevin D. Sawyer

The offices of the Employment Development Department in Sacramento on Jan. 10, 2022. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

Commentary

California’s unemployment insurance system is so poorly funded it pays 2004 wages

November 7, 2023November 6, 2023 by Thomas Rankin

Homeless tents at an encampment near the PATH apartment complex in Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 2021.

Commentary

California needs to change its homelessness policies, not spend more money

November 6, 2023November 5, 2023 by Brian Jones

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Author Archives: Guest Commentary

Newsom deserves credit for doing what few Democrats will, confronting GOP in DeSantis debate

Californians want lawmakers to safeguard elections from artificial intelligence

The private sector is failing to address California’s housing crisis. Social housing shows promise

Despite Newsom veto, California should still provide free condoms to public school students

As hospitals and maternity wards close, here’s one way California can prevent stillbirths

California wants to rollback environmental rules for cannabis. That won’t help ailing growers

Why Newsom’s Senate appointment gives California voters more power in the 2024 election

San Quentin Prison is decaying and California would rather ‘transform’ it than fix it

California’s unemployment insurance system is so poorly funded it pays 2004 wages

California needs to change its homelessness policies, not spend more money

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