California Voices

The apparent failure of a hotel tax measure in San Diego is the latest example of legal confusion over the vote margin required for some local taxes that the state Supreme Court should clear up.

Despite crime being at record setting lows, national polling reveals 93% of parents consider school safety a top priority. In the aftermath of isolated but widely reported horrific school shootings, education leaders report they’re inundated with sales pitches from security companies, each with the same basic message: You could be next.   Fear mongering of exceedingly […]

A new study by a UC-Berkeley research team concludes that a program to provide more money to help "high-risk" students raise their educational achievement has had little effect in Los Angeles high schools.

Mike O’Donnell, Mattress Recycling Council: State and local leaders and solid waste companies should join the Bye Bye Mattress program to expand free mattress recycling to businesses and residents.

William L. Rukeyser, Davis writer: If the religions got out of the contract business and the state got out of the worship business, the validity of the religious ceremonies would be purely in the eyes of the couples, trios or whatever, their co-religionists and whatever gods they believed in. That is a Solomonic solution that should make everybody happy.

Ethnic Studies should be a graduation requirement at California State Universities because racial literacy is a skill needed to achieve a just and functioning society.

If Sen. Kamala Harris were to become Joe Biden's vice president, it would launch a game of political musical chairs with Gov. Gavin Newsom conductor.

John McManus and Noah Oppenheim, Golden State Salmon Association and Pacific Coast Federation of FIshermen’s Associations: Gov. Gavin Newsom should support state efforts to set new, science-based water diversion rules that increase protections for salmon and the Bay-Delta.

California's geographic location and its deep economic ties to Asia make the state ground zero for the coronavirus outbreak's effect on America.

With older adults the fastest-growing segment of California’s homeless, expanding programs to help them must be a key part of state’s homelessness strategy.