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Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, December 10. Newsom at an inflection point Even as 59% of Californians expect the state to be bogged down by widespread unemployment and financial depression for the next five years, 58% approve of how Gov. Gavin Newsom is handling the economy. The findings, from a statewide Public Policy Institute of […]

How California’s governor manages a critical COVID surge and its economic blows will likely define his political future. Will he recover from recent stumbles?

As California’s new requirements for forever chemicals kick in, small providers in remote towns struggle to clean up their water.

With more than a quarter of the ballots processed, early returns show California Democrats are turning out in proportionately far higher numbers than Republicans and independents.  About 32 percent of registered Democrats — upwards of 3.2 million — have already voted in the November general election, according to Political Data’s ballot tracker. In comparison, 23 […]

El apoyo del partido Demócrata, altos funcionarios del estado y varios medios de comunicación no ha dado lugar a una ventaja para el lado del Sí en las encuestas. La opinión de los votantes sobre la acción afirmativa en teoría y en la práctica es parte de la razón.

Some California schools are reopening but most kids remain at home and adults are squabbling over when and if they can get back into the classroom.

It’s not easy to get work done during a pandemic. Even for the fortunate who kept their pre-pandemic jobs, productivity has taken it on the chin in 2020.  The same goes for those in the lawmaking business.  In March, just days after the governor instructed all Californians to shelter in their homes, legislators left Sacramento […]

In the face of climate change, biodiversity loss and conflict over water, California urgently needs to rethink how it manages water for the environment.

Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, September 3. ‘We’re just getting started’ Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that California is making an “unprecedented” effort to address homelessness, two days after lawmakers failed to pass a bill to massively increase housing production — which Newsom said in his February State of the State speech was “the only […]

Good morning, California. It’s Wednesday, September 2. Housing, police, economic bills Gov. Gavin Newsom made his 2020 priorities for California very clear in his February State of the State speech: Address homelessness and pass a major housing production bill. But the state’s highest-profile housing bill died minutes before the legislative session ended Monday amid political […]