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Posted inEducation
Follow the money: Are changes coming for California’s school funding law?
A critical state audit has made oversight of spending on disadvantaged students a first order of business for California lawmakers.
Posted inWhatMatters
Homelessness from San Francisco to Orange County, and window into these times
San Francisco’s homeless woes draw more scrutiny, as homeless numbers swell in Orange County. Santa Clara’s homeless find a place to pick up their mail.
Posted inNewsletters
Weekly CALmatters 05/31/2019
Highlighting all of CALmatters’ work over the past week
Posted inCommentary, Dan Walters
A dangerous conflict-of-interest loophole
Public works project contracts are susceptible to insider dealing, and a pending bill in the Legislature might invite more misbehavior.
Posted inNewsletters
Weekly CALmatters 04/12/2019
Highlighting all of CALmatters’ work over the past week
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Justice, Water
Yes, we need clean water. But it must remain tax-free
Taxing water, food and other essential needs would limit their affordability and betray our collective resolve that no one should be denied the essentials for health, sanitation and freedom from hunger and thirst.
Posted inNewsletters
Weekly CALmatters 03/29/2019
Highlighting all of CALmatters’ work over the past week
Posted inCapitol, Housing, Politics
A state lawmaker borrowed nearly a half-million dollars to buy a home. You might have voted for her lender.
Former U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez loaned state Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva $430,000 to buy a house in Orange County—an arrangement that some legal experts labeled unusual, but that both politicians said was not improper and resulted from their friendship.
Posted inPolitics
Gun control in a blue state: It’s more complicated than you’d think
This week’s shooting in San Bernardino comes as a debate over gun control that has divided Democrats in the state Capitol could head to the voters of California next year. Nearly three years ago, after a man killed 26 women and children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Democrats in the state Legislature […]