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Politics

The California Dream takes center stage in governor’s race

The state’s affordability crisis prompts vows from gubernatorial candidates Gavin Newsom and John Cox to revive the California Dream.

By Amita Sharma, KPBS • October 29, 2018

Newsletters

How liberal is California, really?

California and the House fight. How liberal are CA Democrats? The impact of a law giving prosecutors less power. Behind the UC strike. A cholera monument.

By Dan Morain • October 26, 2018

Elections

How far to the left will Democrats veer? An East Bay Assembly race may answer that

The East Bay Assembly race between Richmond City Councilwoman Jovanka Beckles, a Democratic Socialist, and Democrat Buffy Wicks of Oakland is testing how far to the left some California voters are willing to go. The East Bay Assembly race between Richmond City Councilwoman Jovanka Beckles, a Democratic Socialist, and Democrat Buffy Wicks of Oakland is testing how far to the left some California voters are willing to go.

By Dan Morain • October 25, 2018

Newsletters

The big idea saving CA a half-billion dollars a year

California's savings on smoking bans, Gavin Newsom's audacious goals, a new PPIC poll, Wicks vs. Beckles in the East Bay, how gerrymandering could return.

By Dan Morain • October 25, 2018

Commentary

New poll erases most uncertainty about Nov. 6 election

Lt. Gavin Newsom and Sen. Dianne Feinstein look like winners in a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California, while the ballot's two highest-profile measures look like losers.

By Dan Walters • October 25, 2018

Elections

New poll: Rent control prop is tanking, Dems are surging, and other unexpected, and totally expected, results

A new California midterm poll shows public opinion holding steady or coming in pretty much as you'd expect—but dig deeper into every expected result and you'll find something unexpected.

By Ben Christopher • October 24, 2018

Elections

Trumped-up coverage and lackluster state races leave Californians disengaged from state issues

A lot of Californians pay little attention to their state’s politics and policy debates, and making it easier to vote is unlikely to change that, say state political insiders. In the latest edition of the Target Book Insider Track survey, over half of respondents say the daily President Trump news cycle and a high number […]

By Elizabeth Castillo • October 24, 2018

Politics

Behind the smile: Why Gavin Newsom is striving for his next “Big Hairy Audacious Goal”

Critics call Gavin Newsom, the Democratic frontrunner to be California's next governor, starry-eyed and worse. But nobody could ever accuse him of not thinking big—or as he terms it, thinking "drastically."

By Ben Christopher • October 23, 2018

Politics

California politics are hella NorCal. Will voters shake that up this year?

Several statewide races this year pit NorCal against SoCal, testing the political power and competing priorities of the Golden State’s two most populous regions.

By Laurel Rosenhall • October 23, 2018

Newsletters

Follow the money, large and small-dollar donor edition

Campaign donations are going more to Democrats than Republicans in California's hot congressional races; Feinstein and de León debate; and Gavin Newsom gives because that's how far ahead of John Cox he is.

By Dan Morain • October 18, 2018