Gov. Gavin Newsom is surely celebrating the passage of Proposition 1, which will allocate $6.4 billion to build 10,000 new beds for people with mental illness statewide. But
In some California hospitals, early-career doctors make as little as $16 per hour working 80-hour weeks. It’s training, known as residency, that every board-certified doctor must complete.
The grueling
Federal labor investigators are demanding an LA-area poultry company forfeit money they said it made by employing minors in dangerous jobs. At least two minors had been working in "
An annual political ritual was repeated Wednesday when the California Chamber of Commerce released its 2024 list of "job killers" — nine bills that business executives consider to be
Rep. Katie Porter’s parting comments after her failed bid for US Senate have been widely and appropriately denounced. Calling the primary race “rigged” was ill-tempered and immature, and it
To counter recent legislation that would step up penalties on petty crimes, a group of progressive state lawmakers this morning offered a rival approach, focusing instead on more services for
A couple of years ago, California’s left-leaning interest groups — those seeking a more expansive array of social and medical services to benefit workers and the state’s large population
For nearly two decades, California has not been a hospitable environment for statewide Republicans, and that’s why nobody has spent millions of dollars on TV ads in any Republican
For the last two years the "builder’s remedy" has been the unruly teenager of California housing laws. Running roughshod over zoning regulations while sowing angst among local
Foster kids often miss out on Little League or music lessons. That’s one of the consequences of changing homes, or living with a family on a tight budget. Now
They’re called “Pell runners” — after enrolling at a community college they apply for a federal Pell grant, collect as much as $7,400, then vanish. Since fall 2021, California’
To state the obvious, California motorists are experiencing one of the state’s periodic spikes in gasoline prices. California’s average price for regular grade gas has again topped $5
