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Taking a different tone from his counterpart in the state Senate, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon on Wednesday would not yet commit to releasing information reporters requested about sexual harassment investigations held by his house. “We are formulating a response to your letter,” Rendon said when I asked him during a meeting with reporters if he […]

As legal cannabis moves from campaign pitch to reality in California, some details of the plan have changed.

Typically we make these requests with a formal letter using boilerplate legal language to explain what we want and why it’s public information under California law. But recently, I tried something different: I made a moral appeal directly to the Legislature’s elected leaders.

And as women come forward with stories of being propositioned, groped and even assaulted by male colleagues in politics, an undercurrent of retaliation has begun rippling through the state.

Gov. Jerry Brown fired the opening salvo of California’s budget season on Jan. 7 when he unveiled his spending proposal for the fiscal year that will start July 1. While the final state budget will likely look much different in June when it is scheduled to be adopted by the Legislature, Brown’s proposal is the […]