California Voices

Cynthia Rice, California Rural Legal Assistance: California’s Private Attorney General Act has helped Peruvian sheepherders, dairy workers, janitors and the state itself. Here’s how.

There's a debate underway on whether California faces a shortage of registered nurses, colored by political infighting over nurse training programs.

David Flanagan and Michele Steeb, Saint John’s Program for Real Change: California is its own worst enemy when It comes to homelessness. But here’s how the state can start making real change.

The defeat of a $15 billion school bond issue and other recent rejections of new taxes could signal a new attitude by voters on spending and taxes.

Re “California faces massive costs related to climate change. Oil industry must pay its fair share,” Sen. Scott Wiener, Feb. 26, 2020. Sen. Scott Wiener has the principle right in his commentary. Change the headline and Sen. Wiener might be writing about housing: California faces massive costs related to housing. Corporations must pay their fair […]

Sen. Ling Ling Chang, Diamond Bar Republican: California audit slammed the Lottery for failing to provide sufficient funds to public schools Chang’s legislation seeks to fix the problem.

Nancy Deutsch, University of Virginia Curry School of Education and Human Development's Youth-Nex Center: California’s law letting teenagers sleep an extra hour was a good first step. Now, Legislature should adopt an ‘agenda for adolescents’

Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a big overhaul of Medi-Cal, California's health care program for the poor, and it could be a precursor to a single-payer system.

Pedro Nava, the Little Hoover Commission: Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to overhaul California's mental health care system. The Little Hoover Commission has a plan for that.

California has been a laggard in tracing how students progress through its educational systems but Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing for a new data system that would do that.