As forecasts tease California with storms this week, the state’s reservoirs are already flush with water. It’s a big departure from a year ago: The state’s major
Legalizing recreational cannabis in California was supposed to bring illegal growers out of the shadows and into a robust, safe and regulated market. When voters approved Proposition 64 in 2016,
Sooner or later, some California governors wear out their welcome and leave office in clouds of popular disdain. It’s not a universal syndrome. Republican Ronald Reagan maintained his popularity,
Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what
By the first COVID summer, no one knew who was who. In Nigeria, an oil company IT engineer was allegedly filing for unemployment in California and 16 other states with
April 20, 2020: Nine phone calls. The next week, another six calls from 28-year-old Shane Balogh’s cellphone to California’s jammed unemployment lines. One more in May. Another 22
Five years, $1.2 billion. And a new model for government contracting in the tech-challenged home state of Silicon Valley.That is what California officials say it will take to
Now that the Legislature has mostly gone home and the governor has signed or vetoed all the bills, it’s time for them to reflect on the most pressing problems
Don’t call it a tripledemic — yet. Influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and COVID-19 are circulating this fall, but not yet at the rate that worried public health agencies a
California has poured billions of dollars into finding homes for homeless veterans, but the number of former military service members living on the street has held steady for almost a
A meeting of the Los Angeles City Council is at least two discordant experiences at once: It’s an ennobling exercise in participatory democracy, as 15 elected officials attempt to
Despite moving in to her new digs just a month ago, Darlene Pizarro and her white dog, Angel, are already regulars at the local dog run.
Pizarro’s new place
