Politics

In California, a deep blue state leading the charge to curb climate change, the question for many Republicans isn’t whether global warming is happening—it’s what kind of policies are best to address it.

It has become a familiar routine for the Sears family: Gather the medical experts, trek to Sacramento, and tell another panel of lawmakers how their 6-year-old son died from the anesthesia a dentist gave him to pull a tooth. Then watch as legislators water down the solution that pediatricians insist would prevent other California children […]

Facing a stack of lawsuits from privacy and civil-rights advocates, President Trump's commission on elections integrity—which California's Democratic Secretary of State likened to a "sham commission"— is temporarily halting its effort to collect voter-roll information from the states.

Seldom missing an opportunity to upstage President Trump, Gov. Brown tonight will announce a global climate action summit, which he will lead in San Francisco in September.

California has lots of company in its refusal to cooperate with the Trump Administration's request for data on the state's voter rolls. At least 44 states have said they will not provide some or all of the information requested by the president's special panel tasked with investigating alleged weaknesses in the nation's voting systems.

California has approved a plan to spend $1 million to review immigration detention centers and local holding centers that house undocumented immigrants for the federal government.

The Trump administration is ramping up its campaign to root out voter fraud, but it won’t be getting much help from California.

In what is becoming a familiar pattern, the state of California has notified the Trump Administration of its intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce an Obama-era law calling for reduction in methane gas emissions. Methane’s potent heat-trapping capacity makes it many times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

Hundreds of companies have submitted bids on building prototypes of President Trump’s Mexico border wall in San Diego—although but no contracts have been awarded yet for the project that was supposed to begin this month.

(Update: On Oct. 7 Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law AB 249, meaning campaigns will now have to be more transparent about the source of their funding.)   Who pays for all those political ads that bombard voters every election season? An effort to make the answer clearer to the public is squeezing California Democrats […]