Guest Commentary

Unfortunately, California’s approach to setting mandates to cut greenhouse gas emissions has left agriculture to become collateral damage.

We can allow safer legal access to cannabis and useful hemp products without going backward in our commitments to public health and food safety.

As the drought bears down on the Central Valley, rice farmers and millions of migratory birds will feel the impact.

More voter education is needed to inform Californians of available voting options and to reduce the number of rejected ballots.

A Stanford University study of the corrections department’s rehabilitation and reentry program shows it should be expanded.

Public funds should first be used to connect households with no service or slow service before funding upgrades where service is already available.

SB 2 would grant the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training the authority to decertify officers who abuse the trust granted them.

AB 616 will go a long way toward ensuring that farmworkers can decide, by free and fair elections, whether they wish to join a union.

As the Legislature approves more housing, it should consider the drought and water supplies for residential development.

If the polls are correct, the recall election has a greater possibility of an absurd result, and it’s time for the state Supreme Court to weigh in.