Guest Commentary

Thanks to strategic federal investments, rapid technological innovation and falling costs, hydrogen is poised to be significant to our state’s energy future and in the lives of today’s and the next generation of union energy workers.

If new parents want to take bonding leave, or adult children want to apply for Paid Family Leave to care for an ill parent, they need to be able to afford a 40% pay cut. Senate Bill 951 would provide enough income for workers who contribute to the fund with each paycheck to access the benefit.

California is in a unique position to make the sports betting industry fairer, safer and more reliable for bettors.

The governor’s new water plan is timely and much needed, but making it happen will require unprecedented compromises from California’s powerful environmentalist lobby.

As climate change intensifies California’s drought, the Department of Water Resources needs to step up both roles of regulator and coach. If the state approves local groundwater management plans that aren’t sustainable, more wells will go dry, people will lose water, wetlands will wither, and animals will die.

We propose an approach to water management that treats the environment as a priority rather than a constraint on operations.

San Bernardino County’s Fair-Share ballot measure asks if the county should secede from California to ensure that our tax dollars are put to work addressing our most pressing needs.

Migrant survivors of gender-based violence require care and community support.

Assembly Bill 2201 only creates more confusion in the already complicated process for sustainable management of groundwater basins. Sacramento needs to entrust groundwater management to local experts.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed creating a Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment Court, a new way to ensure that those who need care can get it and to enable the state to ensure that cities and counties expected to provide mental and behavioral health services are doing so.