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Newsom’s tax bill, vaccinations, and new additions to lobby fights
Newsom, legislators have unfinished business on taxes. Vaccination bill faces tough questions. USC sex abuse scandal returns to Capitol.
University of Southern California
Newsletters
Finding a friend in Oregon, Newsom’s lawsuit pays off and the Nazi next door
Oregon may join California's cap-and-trade market. Why CSU students pay more for parking. Tom Steyer wades into a new political fight.
Commentary
USC’s George Tyndall is gone, but sexual abuse survivors still deserve a choice
Dr. George Tyndall was the only gynecologist available to women such as Vanessa Carlisle at USC. Now, survivors finally do have a choice: Accept a settlement offered by USC, or, if the Legislature approves a bill by Assemblywoman Eloise Reyes, file a separate suit. Legislators should approve the bill.
Commentary
To help people with mental illness, keep them in school
Early diagnosis and intervention is essential to attaining better outcomes for mental illness. But in the struggle to help people with mental illness cope, a powerful long term tool has been overlooked: school. Education has an outsized impact on the prospects for people with serious mental disorders.
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Police shootings, USC scandal, ‘Trump insurance’ and Newsom returns
Hearing on police shootings turns emotional, USC sex-abuse scandal comes to Capitol, legislators propose 'Trump insurance' bills
Newsletters
Power struggles: border, utilities, college cheating and police
Newsom v. Trump on migrants, shareholders v. the public on the PG&E board, one lawmaker v. another on SAT testing, ACLU vs. cop unions. Plus IPO windfalls.
Politics
Private colleges wary as California legislator calls for crackdown on legacy admits
A bill by Assemblyman Phil Ting would bar colleges and universities from receiving state financial aid dollars if they give preference to applicants with ties to alumni or donors. Proposed just last week, it’s already raising alarm among the state’s private colleges.
Commentary
For the privilege of helping others, I will be paying off student loans for 20 years
The college admissions scam, much of which involves parents of USC students, serves as a blaring signal that college is not about education. It is about status. The majority of us do not have anyone to help buy our admission, let alone our education. I am one of the millions of Americans who will graduate with massive debt. By the time I earn my master’s degree in a year and a half, my student loans will amount to about $80,000.
Elections
Here’s whom to thank—or blame—for California’s version of direct democracy
How California came to have one of the most powerful, and least flexible initiative processes in the world.
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Follow the money, large and small-dollar donor edition
Campaign donations are going more to Democrats than Republicans in California's hot congressional races; Feinstein and de León debate; and Gavin Newsom gives because that's how far ahead of John Cox he is.