Two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration unveiled a new plan to help solve the homelessness crisis: It began using health care providers, funded through Medi-Cal, to help people
We know how legislatures work: lawmakers introduce bills, debate on them and vote yes or no. Right? Not exactly. Of the 2,403 bills that died in the recent two-year
Each December there’s a new version of an old guessing game about how much water will be provided to agricultural and municipal users in the year ahead.
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When the Great Recession struck California 17 years ago and hundreds of thousands of workers lost their jobs, the state’s unemployment insurance system crashed. The employer-financed program quickly exhausted
Diane Moss lost her home in the Santa Monica Mountains after power lines ignited the apocalyptic Woolsey Fire in 2018. Since then, she’s pressed for a safer electric grid
California prisons are no longer withholding money they are supposed to give people at the time of their release, according to a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation memo obtained
In one of Los Angeles’ oldest neighborhoods, a tidy elementary school sits on ground it has occupied for nearly a century, proudly displaying its “gold ribbon” from the state of
With strong bipartisan support, career and technical education programs are poised to be a centerpiece of education policy over the next few years — both federally and in California. That’s
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, California Democrats are developing new plans to strengthen the state’s abortion protections.
Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced two legislative proposals
Many California families want to bring their babies into the world outside of a hospital, but the state isn’t making it easy for them. Half of the state’s
The California Assembly will limit the number of bills each member can introduce from 50 each two-year session to 35, according to house rules that will be adopted at the
By Ryan Sabalow
Special to the Daily Press
The Republican caucus in California’s Legislature is growing more diverse as Latino and Asian American candidates apparently flipped three Democrat-held seats,
