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Lead paint makers balk at huge bill for toxic cleanup—instead they want you to pick up the tab

After losing in California courts, three lead paint companies are asking voters to overturn the ruling that says they must pay to clean up toxic lead paint in older homes.

By Laurel Rosenhall • May 9, 2018

Newsletters

California Republicans struggle in age of Trump

Good Monday morning, California. “He then slowly inhaled the Pineapple Thai. It was the first time he’d had cannabis, he said, since 1979. ‘Somebody said I’m overdue,’ he laughed.” — Leafly, quoting Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer at his West Hollywood fundraiser last week. The Los Angeles Democrat chairs the Assembly Public Safety Committee, which hears bills […]

By Dan Morain • May 7, 2018

Newsletters

Will billionaires’ millions bend governor’s race?

Good morning, California. “Employers will ignore  it at their peril,” Teamster lobbyist Barry Broad said of Monday’s unanimous California Supreme Court decision in Dynamex Operations West. The ruling could upend the gig economy by requiring that employers treat many more workers as employees, not independent contractors. Broad: “A lot of labor representatives are elated.” A drop-out, […]

By Dan Morain • May 1, 2018

Politics

Secrets, and seals of approval, in the California governor’s race

Voters won't see the questionnaires candidates answer when they seek endorsements from special interests.

By Laurel Rosenhall • April 26, 2018

Elections

Facebook to stop spending money against California privacy measure

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrapped up a second day being grilled by Congress about whether the company adequately protects the personal data of its 2 billion users, news broke in California that Facebook will stop spending money to oppose a privacy measure aiming for the state’s November ballot. Facebook is one of five tech […]

By Laurel Rosenhall • April 11, 2018

Elections

Goodbye, neighborhood polling places—5 counties switch to mega-vote centers

This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer “one-stop vote centers”—an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last mid-term elections. The 2016 Voter’s Choice Act establishes the vote centers in Madera, Napa, […]

By Byrhonda Lyons • April 2, 2018