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See what gifts, trips your state representatives disclosed in 2024
CalMatters created a tool that allows anybody to explore the assets, gifts, and travel disclosed by state lawmakers.
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Digital Democracy
How California legislators got more than $820,000 in travel in 2024
Last year, nearly 100 interest groups spent more than $820,000 to sponsor trips for 92 state lawmakers.
Politics
Find out if your vote could be affected by Newsom’s redistricting plans
Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing new California congressional maps that would dilute Republican votes. Here's how your vote could change in 2026 if his measure passes.
Data & Trackers
Special interests poured more than half a billion into California lobbying last year
Google, oil companies and utilities helped push California lobbying to a record $540 million in 2024, up 10% from the year before.
Politics
He wants to make California Republicans relevant again. So why does the GOP dislike him?
Republican Assemblymember Carl DeMaio, a newcomer to the California Legislature, wants to retake power from Democrats with his unapologetically brash, Trump-inspired conservatism. So why do so many Republican insiders dislike him?
California Wildfires
The LA County fires devastated homes in the wildland urban interface. Here’s what that is
A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.
CalMatters en Español
Mapa: ¿Qué tan grandes son los incendios en Los Ángeles? Usa esta herramienta para compararlos con el lugar donde vives
Los incendios que arrasan el condado de Los Ángeles durante la última semana han quemado más de 40.000 acres, un área aproximadamente equivalente a 1.800 islas de Alcatraz o 400 Disneylands
California Wildfires
Map: How big are the LA fires? Use this tool to overlay them atop where you live
The fires sweeping across Los Angeles County for the past week have burned more than 50,000 acres, an area roughly equivalent to 2,200 Alcatraz Islands or 500 Disneylands, or larger than Washington, D.C. An arid fall and winter has dried out vegetation after two wetter-than-average years, providing fuel as a windstorm, with hurricane-force gusts topping […]
CalMatters en Español
California tenía cada vez menos trabajadores muriendo en el lugar de trabajo hasta que apareció el Fentanilo
Las muertes por fentanilo aumentan en el lugar de empleo mientra otros buscan cómo reducir estos casos
Economy
Fewer California workers were dying on the job. Then fentanyl happened
Employers and unions are grappling with the opioid crisis, while the state inches toward requiring Narcan in workplaces.