Guest Commentary

The challenge for implementation of the groundwater act will take local water agencies and entities working together to bring groundwater basins into balance.

California lacks a comprehensive strategy to assist prisoners released during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving them and their communities vulnerable.

I know how the predatory bail system works, because I am a victim of it. Its outcomes are predictably unfair, but Prop. 25 will change that.

Prop. 25 would eliminate cash bail or pretrial release programs with a new, unproven automated computer system.

Crecí en el Valle de San Joaquín, y la contaminación del aire allí ha tenido impactos muy reales en mi salud y en la salud de mi familia.

I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley, and the air pollution there has had very real impacts on my own health and the health of my family.

It is time that the state and federal governments take action to protect the hundreds of thousands of nonprofit affordable housing units.

District attorneys, the State Bar and the Medical Board should protect Californians, but they seem uninterested in deterring fraud against consumers.

We continue to see no action or purposeful decision-making to prioritize the needs and public health of communities around the Salton Sea.

Gasoline is a big part of the climate crisis and we must demand that our elected officials achieve big, consistent cuts in gasoline usage.