The maker of OxyContin is among numerous drug companies forced to reveal massive hikes in drug prices this year, under a new California law. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons.

In summary

A California law reveals a big drug price hike, legal weed a year later, a dirty trick may have cost the GOP an Assembly seat and a Brown-Newsom translator.

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Dan Morain joined CalMatters in March 2018. He is the former editorial page editor of The Sacramento Bee. Morain also spent 27 years at The Los Angeles Times, and has covered the Capitol since 1992.