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A voter drops her ballot into the box at San Francisco City Hall on Super Tuesday 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
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California ballot battles heat up
The closer the November election gets, the tenser California’s political climate becomes. Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Attorney General Xavier Becerra — both Democrats — sent a cease-and-desist letter Monday to the California Republican Party, demanding it remove unofficial ballot drop boxes set up outside of churches and gun shops in several counties. The […]
By • October 13, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence looks at Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris as she answers a question during the vice presidential debate Oct. 7, 2020, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Photo by AP Morry Gash, AP Photo/Pool
Elections
Veep debate: Fact-check on Kamala Harris as California prosecutor
A few things distinguished tonight’s vice presidential debate from the Trump-on-Biden interruption-fest that the nation suffered through last week: The two were separated by prophylactic plexiglass Tupac was invited for some reason A fly made a surprise appearance on the vice president’s head The back-and-forth was, for the most part, actually a back-and-forth, rather than […]
By • October 7, 2020
President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden clashed over California wildfires and climate-altering emissions in the first presidential debate Sept. 29. Photo by Olivier Douliery, Pool via AP
Elections
California caught in presidential cage match debate
If you didn’t catch the first presidential debate of 2020 tonight — and if you didn’t, and did virtually anything else with that time, congratulations on a restful evening well-spent — you missed a cameo appearance by California. The Golden State made its entrance around the 75-minute mark.  That was presumably long after everyone but […]
By • September 29, 2020
WhatMatters
Wine Country under wildfire siege
Good morning, California. It’s Tuesday, September 29. Thousands evacuating, three dead The worst fire season in California’s recorded history keeps getting worse. Following a weekend of high temperatures and dry winds that blasted through parts of Northern California at more than 50 miles per hour, record-breaking blazes intensified and new fires ignited — including the […]
By • September 29, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom has a history of making bold,risky political moves that affect political decision-making nationwide. Will his order to ban new gas-powered cars by 2035 follow suit? Illustration by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters; iStock
Elections
Could Newsom’s big, bold car ban hurt Biden in swing states?
Yesterday Gov. Gavin Newsom leaned over the hood of an electric car and signed an executive order to phase out new gas-powered vehicles in California by 2035 and halt new fracking projects by 2024. It was exactly the kind of “big, hairy, audacious” move that Newsom has made his calling card: one guaranteed to generate […]
By • September 24, 2020
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10,000 unemployment claims backlogged per day — claims paused for 2 weeks
Planning on applying for unemployment benefits? Well, you won’t be able to do so for the next two weeks. California’s beleaguered unemployment department is putting a pause on new claims until Oct. 5 to give it time to implement an automatic identity-verification tool to speed up processing times. The move follows recommendations outlined in a […]
By • September 21, 2020
WhatMatters
Poll: Californians barely favor changing Prop. 13 — under a third back affirmative action
Many schools and local governments staggering under looming billion-dollar shortfalls are throwing their weight behind Prop. 15, a high-profile measure on California’s November ballot that could raise up to $11.5 billion annually. But only 51% of likely voters support the measure, according to a Public Policy Institute of California report released late Wednesday night — […]
By • September 17, 2020
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Trump, Biden face off over California wildfires
Good morning, California. It’s Tuesday, September 15. Golden State in the spotlight California took center stage on the national campaign trail Monday, with Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden leveraging the state’s record-breaking fires to advance their respective political visions. The faceoff will likely continue today, with Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala […]
By • September 15, 2020

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