Sen. Bob Hertzberg tells the "California State of Mind" podcast he's in a renewed push to end cash bail for nonviolent crimes.

Welfare advocates say California places low-income and minority parents in insurmountable debt by garnishing child support payments and imposing high interest rates when they fall behind on payments, keeping a larger-than-average portion for itself. The director of the agency overseeing child support says state changes would require legislative action, but meaningful changes have failed to gain traction at the Capitol.

Good morning, California. It’s Monday, May 3. Repaying public aid $18.4 billion. That’s how much California parents owe in overdue child support payments, but a staggering $6.8 billion of that debt is due to the government, not families — the result of the Golden State keeping an unusually large portion of payments for itself. No […]

Los defensores del bienestar dicen que California coloca a los padres de familias minoritarias y de bajos ingresos en una deuda insuperable al embargar los pagos de manutención de los hijos e imponer altas tasas de interés cuando se atrasan en los pagos, y se queda con una porción superior al promedio. El director de la agencia que supervisa la manutención de los hijos dice que los cambios estatales requerirían una acción legislativa, pero los cambios significativos no han logrado ganar terreno en el Capitolio.

El sistema de la UC necesita una reforma; aquí hay una propuesta de cuatro pasos que desbloquearía el potencial de I + D y ampliaría el acceso a los estudiantes de California.

Nuestro objetivo es poner fin a la epidemia de suicidios de veteranos proporcionando investigación y defensa para los veteranos que buscan terapias psicodélicas.

Democratic Party leaders unite behind a message that the recall is a desperate Republican plot that is bad for California. But will progressives and Latinos turn out to vote?

Los líderes del Partido Demócrata se unen detrás de un mensaje de que la destitución es un complot republicano desesperado que es malo para California. Pero, ¿llegarán a votar progresistas y latinos?

California’s identity, dating back to the Gold Rush, has been based on an idea: This is a place where people want to be. Prospectors. Dust bowl refugees. Immigrants. The Golden State has always lured people seeking work, play and sunshine.  For most of that history, our population went up and up. And so did our […]

Good morning, California. It’s Friday, April 30. Meet Asm. Alex Lee It isn’t even halfway through the legislative year, and three lofty progressive proposals have already been squashed — showcasing the sharp divide within California’s Democrat-dominated Legislature. A bill to create single-payer health care? Tabled last week. A bill to ban corporations and “business entities” from […]