Guest Commentary

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.

By supercharging our climate efforts in tandem with the federal climate legislation and California’s climate budget, we can put clean energy to work fighting inflation, lowering household energy costs and creating good jobs.

Permitted street vending is an integral part of California culture, but it must be managed properly to ensure health and safety of vendors, business owners and visitors.

Assembly Bill 2011 would streamline approvals to convert empty strip malls, office parks and parking lots into affordable and mixed-income housing, concentrating development in order to build resilient communities and protect our planet.