I started using methamphetamine and PCP in the 1980s after surviving an abusive childhood, and continued to use them for more than 35 years. Throughout that time, I fell into
California’s chronic inability to build enough housing — particularly for low-income families – has many causes, but a big one is its extremely high cost of construction.
Some costs are intrinsic
Corn chips, tortillas, tamales and pupusas — while all delicious may be missing a key vitamin for women of reproductive age. Folic acid has long been used to prevent serious birth
The current session of the California Legislature, like all recent sessions, has featured the state’s perpetual conflict over its acute shortage of housing. Gov. Gavin Newsom and most legislators
You might think the home of Silicon Valley would rush to hire a cybersecurity chief, but you’d be wrong: California has left its top cybersecurity post vacant for nearly
California lawmakers don’t know for sure how big their budget deficit is, but on Thursday they decided it’s big enough to go ahead and reduce spending by about
Planned Parenthood clinics in California are bracing for an uptick in patients crossing the state line for abortions, after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a nearly total prohibition on the
California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over the past five years but didn’t consistently track whether the huge outlay of public money actually improved the situation, according to
Many landlords providing new low-income housing in California won’t be able to increase the rent on their tenants by more than 10% per year, under a rule imposed this
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
California Democratic leaders announced Thursday they had come to an agreement on a plan that would reduce the state’s staggering multibillion-dollar deficit by $17.3 billion through a combination
