Anna Caballero

Soda taxes stall. Gun taxes survive. A vote on the police solution to police shootings. A rent control repeat. A bill to curb plastic. California gets old.

Turns out the nonbinary gender law impacts everyone who's a teen driver. A deal on a police shooting bill dissolves. A 2020 poll. And CA's privacy law.

Election Day in California, turnout, Orange County, Legislature, supermajority, moderates, spending, death in childbirth, maternal mortality, greenwashing.

The state gives migrant farmworker families a new exemption from the 50-mile rule, which had required them to move during the school year to keep their housing.

A state plan to shift some of the San Joaquin River water flow toward struggling fisheries (and away from farmers) brought ag region politicians to the Capitol, in campaign mode.

“Make-up money” is what it’s called in Sacramento—the contributions that flow to newly-elected officials from interest groups that backed a losing candidate during the campaign. It’s a completely legal way of saying, in political terms, “Let’s kiss and make up.”