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Anti-vaxxers, treating the mentally ill and poor, and Newsom’s focus—PG&E
Newsom joins battle over fate of PG&E, anti-vaxxers target new hepatitis A bill, gaps in mental health care persist
Mental Health
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Trump’s ‘gag rule,’ mental illness, pensions and damage control
California opens a national Title X battle. Mandated treatment for severe mental illness works, where counties try it. A pension ruling for the status quo.
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Water politics, bee health and CA sues over border emergency
Behind Felicia Marcus' water board ouster, research into bee die-offs, 16 states sue over Trump's border emergency and preventing cancer.
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Newsom stirs high speed rail furor
Newsom's State of the State throws the Central Valley a peace offering on the Delta tunnels, creates high speed rail confusion and offers a big social plan.
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Mental illness, lobbying, and student housing
Mental health care in California, Capitol influence spending, Cal asks if elders with guest rooms can solve student housing and a justice opines.
Commentary
My turn: We can prevent gun violence. Here’s one way
By Mara W. Elliott Mara W. Elliott is San Diego City Attorney, cityattorney@sandiego.gov. She wrote this commentary for CALmatters. Mass shootings and everyday gun violence have become so commonplace in America that many people are losing hope that we can stop the senseless loss of innocent lives. But in collaboration with the San Diego Police […]
Commentary
My turn: Surprising facts of crime and death in California
Demagogues have pushed many whites to fear immigrants and the young. In reality, whites are most violently threatened in areas where racialized anger is strongest. Confronting that reality is one key to forging sane policies and a more cohesive society.
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Gas tax: Labor’s test for CA Democrats
Proposition 13 turns 40, labor shuns a Democrat over the gas tax, mental illness and ER visits, a lieutenant governor face-off and children's hospitals.
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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.