Antonio Villaraigosa

What will California’s next governor do about health care? Four Democrats in the race say answering the Trump Administration’s cuts and making care affordable is important. But they disagree about how to pay for that.

Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to lead a state infrastructure project paid for by an outside nonprofit. The nonprofit relied on fundraising from special interests to cover the costs, but did not have to disclose the identity of those donors because of how the arrangement was structured.

No Los Angeles mayor has ever made the jump to California governor, and Antonio Villaraigosa failed once before. But he is nothing if not persistent.

All of the Democratic contenders for California governor promised unions they would be less aggressive than Gov. Gavin Newsom has been with oil industry.

The former California attorney general noted that he had experience fighting Trump after suing his first administration more than 100 times.

Advocates supporting a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a right to a high-quality education say they want to hold schools accountable. But critics fear its vague language could unleash a barrage of lawsuits.

Gov. Newsom’s chosen successor to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is a tech-minded voting rights booster, a Latino who came of age during the nativist political upheaval of the 1990s and a longtime Newsom loyalist.

El sucesor elegido por el gobernador Newsom a la vicepresidenta electa Kamala Harris es un impulsor de los derechos de voto con mentalidad tecnológica, un latino que creció durante la agitación política nativista de la década de 1990 y un leal a Newsom durante mucho tiempo.

These days, campaigning doesn't just mean attacking all challengers. A sly boost for a favorite opponent can also prove useful.

The race for California endorsements has ratched up. Taken for granted by campaigns is a debatable premise — that these imprimaturs make a difference.