My-turn

A California Assembly bill would enable flood control districts to relocate homeless camps that are damaging levees and endangering communities.

While Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order authorizes $150 million to increase shelter beds, lease hotel rooms and distribute trailers, many of California’s homeless will still be left out in the cold.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could scrap the Affordable Care Act. If the court repeals the health care law, one in three California residents covered by Medi-Cal could lose their health insurance or face substantial coverage limits.

Notwithstanding the coronavirus pandemic, we must all focus on how we can heal our state and nation in new and creative ways after too many years of social disharmony and disunity.

California should think bigger about climate change and imagine a complete climate solution, where we actually reverse climate change rather than just avoid its catastrophic impacts.

The sacrifices that families, schools, businesses and communities are making to slow down the spread of the coronavirus protect the health of the people who may need advanced treatment.

It is essential in this aging state that California structures its funding for skilled nursing care in a way that promotes high-quality care.

Despite crime being at record setting lows, national polling reveals 93% of parents consider school safety a top priority. In the aftermath of isolated but widely reported horrific school shootings, education leaders report they’re inundated with sales pitches from security companies, each with the same basic message: You could be next.   Fear mongering of exceedingly […]

Mike O’Donnell, Mattress Recycling Council: State and local leaders and solid waste companies should join the Bye Bye Mattress program to expand free mattress recycling to businesses and residents.

William L. Rukeyser, Davis writer: If the religions got out of the contract business and the state got out of the worship business, the validity of the religious ceremonies would be purely in the eyes of the couples, trios or whatever, their co-religionists and whatever gods they believed in. That is a Solomonic solution that should make everybody happy.