Self-regulation is a messy business. In politics, it can seem elusive.
When elected officials adopt rules to govern the conduct of elected officials, they’re pulled in one direction by
Assemblymember Ash Kalra did something exceptional last week. He was the only legislator to vote "no" on a controversial piece of legislation while nearly half of the 80
Nearly a third of the academic and graduate student workers of the University of California are on strike, after the union of 48,000 members escalated its labor standoff by
Seven years ago, California’s Supreme Court declared broad support for the historic right of voters to make law through the initiative process.
Ruling in a case dubbed "Upland,
What’s the cost of democracy in California? If we calculate that based just on the pages informing the state’s 22 million voters about Proposition 1 in the official
When Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a much-revised 2024-25 state budget this month, he became visibly irritated when reporters pressed him about raising taxes to cover a $44.9 billion deficit,
Financial support for the nearly 6 million students in California’s public schools is not only the largest chunk of the state budget, but for the past half-century it has
More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University
Homelessness gets top billing in a measure likely to make it onto your November ballot. Whether the measure has anything to do with homelessness is debatable.
The initiative proponents are
California’s budget crunch is forcing the Legislature to scale back its agenda this session, with bills to legalize psychedelic therapy, offer reparations to the descendants of enslaved people, and
The much-revised 2024-25 state budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom released last week contains hundreds of spending reductions and other actions to close what he says is a $44.9 billion
