California

For two weeks in March, Dr. Raynald Samoa fought to move air through his lungs. After recovering from COVID-19, the Los Angeles-based diabetes specialist posted videos on Facebook urging others to stay home. His posts resonated with California’s small but tight-knit Pacific Islander community as questions and stories flooded his inbox. One family described the […]

The director of California’s Department of Aging said Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic is not only helping inform the state’s evolving Master Plan on Aging but also putting the state’s response to its senior population to its “ultimate stress test.” Kim McCoy Wade made the remarks in a wide-ranging web conversation with CalMatters health care […]

Early reports indicate children infected by the coronavirus experience a milder response than older adults. But as it arrives in Northern California, school and college officials are preparing for a growing likelihood that the highly contagious virus will disrupt learning and spark panic in young people and their naturally protective caretakers.  As dorms are being […]

Store water for a drought, or prepare for floods? How atmospheric river research helps California decide.

Given California’s international leadership in addressing climate change, it isn’t surprising that voters will be asked this November to approve billions of dollars in bonds to help the state become more resilient. But why settle for one ballot proposal when you can have three? Competing plans for “climate resiliency” bonds come from three sides of […]

El presidente claramente disfruta pinchando al estado más poblado de la nación. Desde su inauguración, Donald Trump ha apuntado a California por sus políticas sobre inmigración y protección ambiental, sus instituciones culturales de izquierda, su índice de pobreza (que, si se toma en cuenta el costo de vida, es el más alto de la nación), […]

California's decision to buy only from carmakers that have agreed to follow its clean car rules may well cost GM's Chevrolet tens of millions of dollars.

California is the golden state — at least for those at the top of the income scale. For everyone else, the nickname may apply more to the sun than to money. That’s one takeaway of an analysis of U.S.Census Bureau data by the California Budget and Policy Center (CBPC), which found a widening gap between […]

A Trump administration proposal would cut food stamps to 3.1 million Americans—largely working families with high housing, childcare and medical costs. That could hit hard in California, a state where both the cost of living and the minimum wage are on the rise.

Lenny Mendonca, High-Speed Rail Authority chairman: The high-speed rail’s building block approach starting in the Central Valley makes sense. To hear some say that this project is something that is not important to California is insulting. Ensuring that we are all connected is essential to the California Dream. It always has been, and it always will be.