Commentary

More work needs to be done in California to protect immigrants and communities of color from discrimination.

With outbreaks of COVID-19 among migrant farmworkers across the country, California needs to better protect these essential workers. Here are some recommendations.

A stimulus plan to retrofit homes and replace gas appliances for low-income Californians and small businesses will help fight climate change and create jobs.

The coronavirus crisis and subsequent economic fallout have challenged California leaders with a series of difficult decisions, but choosing how to vote on the nation’s first electric truck rule shouldn’t be one of them.  This commonsense, achievable standard will create thousands of clean transportation jobs, inject billions of dollars into the economy and slash cancer-causing […]

COVID-19 has produced a seismic shift in thinking about working from home and healthier lifestyles, while seeing a stunning impact on our air quality.

Pest control advisers put the latest science to work every day on California farms to ensure the best, safest crop protection method is being used.

Unemployment has tripled since COVID-19 struck, but there was an uptick in May. So what's next for the California economy?

Lea este artículo en español. Even as the Assembly and Senate voted overwhelmingly with bipartisan support to make ethnic studies a graduation requirement at the California State University, CSU management and leadership is doing everything it can to blunt progress on inclusive learning. In a recent commentary, CSU Chancellor Timothy White decried systemic barriers to change […]

We are in a time of global pandemic and the U.S. Southern border wall is progressing.  More than 180 miles of new wall has been constructed, without recent push-back from those of us who have long protested the building of a wall.  But we are not silent nor unconcerned. We are hundreds of thousands of […]

Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced this week that they have a deal on a new state budget to take effect on July 1. Facing the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic plunge, they said, “we have agreed on a budget that is balanced, responsible and protects core services — education, health care, social […]