Two months ago polls suggested Gov. Gavin Newsom wouldn’t have to do much to persuade voters to pass his marquee mental health measure. His plan, a $6.4 billion
On one level, it’s completely understandable that many Californians believe they and their state would be better off without Gavin Newsom as governor. California has some seemingly intractable issues
For many people, living on the streets of California is a death sentence. That’s according to a recent study that took the first deep look into mortality rates in
The first round of the race for Los Angeles district attorney – one of the nation’s biggest and most closely emulated prosecutorial agencies – is down to the finish. A large
California not only has the nation’s largest number of homeless people, but one of its highest rates of homelessness vis-à-vis its overall population. The last official count found more
Something dangerous is happening at the University of California. Echoing similar moves at many private colleges, the powerful regents of our public university system are moving to suppress political speech
Here we go again: Conservative activists who worked on the failed recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021 have launched another attempt, arguing that conditions in California only worsened in
While Gov. Gavin Newsom gallivants around the country as a campaign surrogate for President Joe Biden — and to burnish his own national image — the state budget he proposed just six
The biggest challenge facing lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom is the state budget deficit — and it just got bigger.
The Legislative Analyst’s Office projected the shortfall as $15 billion
After California became a state in 1850, one of its first acts was to establish the Insane Asylum of California in Stockton, the first of 12 state hospitals meant to
Business and labor are gearing up to go head-to-head on Californians’ ballots again — this time over a consequential 20-year-old state labor law you’ve probably never heard of.
The two
California’s public policy issues tend to stretch across multiple years or even decades, while the attention spans of politicians are abbreviated by election cycles and term limits. The short-term
