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Those DMV snafus, lead paint decision and cancer rates

Those DMV voter registration snafus, a Supreme Court win for California cities, lung cancer rates plummet, how Cox and Newsom would differ from Jerry Brown, UC outsourcing, PG&E and the CALmatters voter guide.

By Dan Morain • October 16, 2018

Commentary

My turn: UC is Ground Zero for income inequality debate

Housing, food, healthcare, and other costs are soaring. Real wages are stagnant. And for UC lowest paid employees, most of whom are people of color, a raise means nothing if your job gets outsourced the next day to a private contractor that pays much less.

By Guest Commentary • October 15, 2018

Commentary

My turn: What the next governor should do for UC

California's next governor must safeguard the University of California and help it remain the world’s greatest public research and teaching university.

By Guest Commentary • September 9, 2018

Commentary

My turn: Extend community colleges’ 4-year degree program

Gov. Jerry Brown has on his desk Senate Bill 1406 by Sen. Jerry Hill, a San Mateo Democrat, that would allow students to begin their bachelor’s degree programs as late as the 2022-23 academic year and graduate by July 2026. He should sign it.

By Guest Commentary • September 3, 2018

Commentary

My turn: Provide college students with abortion access on campus

Senate Bill 320 would give college students at University of California and Cal State campuses access to abortion pills at their campus health center. The Assembly should support students who need access to these health care services.

By Guest Commentary • August 23, 2018

Newsletters

Driving while high; fundraising blitz

Legislators convened Monday to focus on hundreds of bills left to approve or kill in the final four weeks of the session—and raise money from the interests that care deeply about those bills

By Dan Morain • August 7, 2018

Politics

California considers cutting ties to firms carrying out Trump’s immigration policies

Although California can’t do much to block the Trump administration’s controversial immigration policies, opponents in the “Resistance State” keep finding ways to chip away at their foundations. The latest: pushing the state and its Democratic leaders to cancel business deals with, investments in, and campaign donations from private companies with immigration contracts.

By Elizabeth Castillo • July 30, 2018

Newsletters

Brown’s fire plan to help utilities

Gov. Jerry Brown proposed Tuesday that the state ease the liability standards when electricity providers’ equipment sparks fires that destroy property. Utility stock rose. Insurance industry blasts the idea.

By Dan Morain • July 25, 2018

Education

California soon may be first state to require public universities to offer abortion pills

Advancing legislation would make California the first in the nation to require that abortion pills be available at student health centers on all California State University and University of California campuses.

By Elizabeth Castillo • July 24, 2018

Newsletters

3 Californias initiative gets booted, at least for now

California Supreme Court kicked Timothy Draper's CalExit initiative off the November ballot. Justices agreed to hear Draper's arguments, leaving open the possibility the initiative could appear on a future ballot.

By Dan Morain • July 19, 2018