A new California law prohibits people from selling concert and sports tickets that they don’t own. The measure pitted Live Nation against Stubhub as it moved through the Legislature.
Posted inCalMatters en Español
Newsom firma cuatro nuevas leyes sobre la conducción bajo efectos del alcohol. Activistas exigen más en la próxima sesión
Una investigación de CalMatters ha descubierto que el estado tiene algunas de las leyes contra la conducción bajo los efectos del alcohol más laxas del país.
Posted inCalMatters en Español
Aseguradoras dicen que están empezando a emitir nuevas pólizas de seguro de viviendas en California, pero ¿cuántas?
This article is also available in English. Read it here. Las compañías de seguros están comenzando a emitir nuevas pólizas en California después de años de reticencia debido al creciente riesgo de incendios forestales. El Departamento de Seguros del estado afirma que esto significa que las nuevas regulaciones del comisionado saliente Ricardo Lara, destinadas a […]
Posted inInvestigations
Newsom signs 4 new California DUI laws. Advocates want more next session
A CalMatters investigation has found the state has some of the weakest DUI laws in the nation.
Posted inPolitics
How Airbnb is fighting for its place on California’s coast
Residents of cities like Pacifica want to limit the presence of visitors and corporations. Companies like Airbnb want to keep their lucrative coastal listings. That tension has led to increased attempts to influence a small but powerful committee.
Posted inCalifornia Wildfires
He knows his community is going to burn again. Now he’s making sure they’re ready
As climate-fueled wildfires test water systems in new and devastating ways, this Lake County fire chief is racing to adapt
Posted inCommentary
Protecting California’s coastal waters helps heal the ocean — and its tribal caretakers
The Chumash community has asked California to protect more of the Pacific around the Channel Islands and to formalize a co-management framework.
Posted inCommentary
Tilting California voters toward raising local taxes often involves tricks, manipulation
Municipalities and school districts can’t legally spend tax dollars pushing ballot measures. But many do anyway, calling its outreach “information”.
Posted inPolitics
California sheriff broke election law by seizing ballots, state Supreme Court rules
The California Supreme Court ruled Sheriff Chad Bianco violated the state’s election law when his office seized ballots from the Riverside County registrar. The ruling comes six weeks before the November midterm election that will determine who controls Congress in President Trump’s final two years in office.
Posted inHealth
The billionaire tax could be defeated by two other tax measures. Here’s how
California voters will soon decide whether to tax billionaires — but even if a majority says yes, the measure could still lose to either of two billionaire-funded measures designed to cancel it out. The billionaire-backed group Building a Better California designed two countermeasures to undermine the wealth tax and create multiple ways to defeat it. […]