Guest Commentary

The Legislature should amend California’s tax codes to exempt lands returned to tribes from property taxes.

My family has worked relentlessly to maintain its roots in East Palo Alto, because the city is our home. But we can no longer live there because there are no affordable homes. The lack of city plans and policies to keep residents from losing their homes is alarming.

Proposition 1 is on the November ballot to shore up the rights we’re losing at the federal level and to reaffirm the idea that basic decisions about reproductive health care should lie with individuals, not government officials.

Gov. Gavin Newsom should veto Assembly Bill 1936 and ask the Assembly and state Senate to hold hearings during which the historical record regarding Serranus Hastings is thoroughly, fairly and impartially vetted before stripping his name from Hastings College of the Law, the institution he endowed.

Gov. Gavin Newsom should sign Assembly Bill 2841 to make sure voters are not mistakenly dropped from the voting rolls.

The answer to America’s firearm injury epidemic must start with rewriting the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. A nationwide movement to begin that debate by calling a constitutional convention could start with California.

A bipartisan bill awaits the governor’s signature to establish the Ocean Corps to protect our coast and support workforce development for our most disenfranchised populations.

SB 1364 seeks to limit contract labor by imposing onerous restrictions on any small business that contracts for $1,000 or more to provide services to the University of California. These restrictions on vendors are unnecessary and harmful.

The governor must sign legislation to expand access and safeguard protections for sexual and reproductive health care here in California—including abortion care.

A broad coalition of interests support the Newsom administration’s call for bold actions to manage the water flowing through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to benefit fish, farms and cities.