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Elections

Video: Newsom and Cox reveal how they would run California differently than Gov. Brown

See Gavin Newsom and John Cox explain how they would run California differently than Gov. Brown—and make decisions on climate change policies, housing, schools and crime. Plus: book recommendations and hardest thing they've done.

By

Byrhonda Lyons

• October 12, 2018

Newsletters

Trump’s 9th Circuit, Brown’s climate concierge and asthma

Trump's 9th Circuit, Jerry Brown's climate whisperer, new PUC exit fees for utility customers, Central Valley and Salton Sea asthma rates and a quiz.

By

Dan Morain

• October 12, 2018

Environment

Meet Ken Alex, Gov. Jerry Brown’s climate concierge

Insiders say Alex may be the most consequential environmental authority California has known.

By

Julie Cart

• October 11, 2018

Newsletters

Cox, Newsom, Rohrabacher, Russia and CA tests

Gavin Newsom and John Cox debate, Dana Rohrabacher and Russia, California's test scores and Jerry Brown's legacy, the gas tax repeal, Proposition 6, Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, Gov. Jerry Brown, electricity and the PUC.

By

Dan Morain

• October 9, 2018

Education

Are California’s low test scores a cry for the state to take more responsibility?

California's test scores raise questions about whether Gov. Jerry Brown’s two signature education initiatives—the revamped education funding formula that provides far more money for each disadvantaged student, and his doctrine of subsidiarity, or local control—can survive when he's gone.

By

Karin Klein

• October 8, 2018

Kevin de León on a visit to the Statute of Liberty with his daughter, Lluvia de Milagros Carrasco. She is now 23 and pursuing a modeling career. Photo courtesy of de León.

Newsletters

A Kevin de León profile, internet privacy and carpeting

A new Kevin de León profile,carpet recycling quandaries, California's new internet privacy law, Los Angeles housing, Proposition 2 and our CALmatters quiz.

By

Dan Morain

• October 5, 2018

Capitol

Jerry Brown paddles left, paddles right on #MeToo laws

He sided with victims’ advocates in some cases, signing bills that put California at the forefront of clamping down on harassment. In other cases he sided with employers, vetoing bills they said were too onerous.

By

Laurel Rosenhall

• October 2, 2018

Newsletters

Beach access, Brown’s court and an endorsement goes away

California's Coastal Act, a Silicon Valley billionaire, Jerry Brown's next Supreme Court justice, the gas tax costs Katie Porter a union endorsement, and #MeToo complaints persist for Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia .

By

Dan Morain

• October 2, 2018

Tens of thousands demonstrate for women's equality at the 2017 Women's March in Sacramento. Photo via Creative Commons.

Newsletters

Battle lines on net neutrality and #MeToo

Gov. Jerry Brown, ending an unprecedented fourth term as California's leader, signs historic bills on net neutrality and women in boardrooms, along with new gun controls, changes in California's felony murder rule and police accountability. Plus, 5G wireless begins today.

By

Dan Morain

• October 1, 2018

Newsletters

California and Kavanaugh and Newsom’s numbers

California's stake in the Kavanaugh nomination, Gavin Newsom's lead over John Cox in polls and among donors, a predatory lending probe, climate change warrior farmers, a PPIC poll, housing starts and the governor signs bills.

By

Dan Morain

• September 27, 2018