California Dream

In the decades following Prop. 13’s implementation, Former Speaker Willie Brown has come to recognize the law’s many benefits, and a proposed change would harm small businesses.

Californians approve of Gov. Newsom’s handling of the state’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic and the state government’s response to the crisis.

Californians should have a conversation about the split roll initiative on the November ballot and ask if the state’s taxation system as a whole is broken, rather than just Proposition 13.

California housing organizations team up to draw on experts and propose a comprehensive framework of policy solutions to address the homelessness and housing crisis.

Stacy Torres, UC San Francisco: Before you toss off an “Ok Boomer” or a head-shaking, “Kids these days,” first consider our linked lives and destinies. Young people must understand that supporting policies to help elders increases their livelihoods. And elders can be more proactive in pushing for programs and policies that invest in young people’s well-being and growth.

When students of color have teachers of color, they learn more, finish high school at higher rates, and are more likely to go to college. But the number of teachers of color in California isn’t keeping pace with the diversity of its student body.

Burmese doctors dish sushi at a restaurant, a Jordanian computer engineer drives for Uber, and a Nepali non-profit program officer stocks shelves at a Walmart. Nearly 2 million college-educated immigrants labor in jobs for which they are overqualified, or cannot find work at all.   The “brain waste” phenomenon is costing California and other states billions […]

Campus organizers across California are gearing up for the state’s early primary in March, hoping for a repeat of the 2018 elections, when student voter turnout nationwide more than doubled. They’re trying creative tactics to get their peers registered and to the polls, helped along by two new California laws.

California warns of THC risks for babies. Proposed rule calls for zero-emission trucks. No-party preference voters must choose primary ballot.

El Cajon's population is more than 70% white, its politics conservative Republican. But it's changing as it becomes home to one of the nation's largest populations of Chaldeans, a persecuted religious and ethnic minority from Iraq.