Commentary

I do not want to give up the training I have started at my church because this is a major consideration in "getting back to normal."

The Legislature has passed a placeholder state budget that protects lawmakers from losing ther salaries, but the end game may be a battle over taxes.

Statutes are coming down and name changes are contemplated at a furious rate. Exactly who decides these changes and how are the decisions made?

The chasm between COVID-19 cases in Alameda and Oakland is a microcosm of the ethnic, racial and class health disparities raging across the country.

Senate Bill 1175 claims to increase regulation on the importation of live animals, but it is a smokescreen to ban the import ban of animals hunted abroad.

Most of the water has already been pulled out of the inflow by leakage and diversions before reaching the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

California clearly has problem with police violence and it will be up to the Democrats who control the state's politics to fix it.

No one is seriously suggesting communities defund the police, but the issue raises questions about local priorities and how police are best deployed.

This “public health approach” to creating community safety works, but safety efforts like these have been underfunded and short-lived.

Our future will be grim if we move forward with a state budget that includes a 7% cut in hours to recipients of our state’s In-Home Supportive Services program.