DROUGHT - California Gov. Gavin Newsom today unveiled a broad strategy for bolstering the state’s water supply that includes targets to recycle more water, expand reservoir storage and collect more data on the amounts farmers use.
STATE WATCH
California Unemployment Checks: New Report Explores Why They’re So Hard To Get
CA UNEMPLOYMENT - If you get laid off, there’s a system that’s supposed to help you get by: unemployment benefits.
California Living Wage Act Bumped From Ballot as Affordability Crisis Deepens
ECONOMY - What does it really take to stay afloat in California?
Buckle Up For A Busy Month In Sacramento
SACRAMENTO - Welcome to the final countdown.
What Happens When The ‘Indispensable Insider’ Of Sacramento Steps Down?
CA FINANCE - Send help, Harry Potter! Sacramento needs a new wizard!
Gavin Newsom Won’t Save the Democrats
GUEST COMMENTARY - Burdened with a decomposing President and a clearly overmatched Vice President, the Democrats are on the hunt for a saviour.
Millions of Californians Lack the High-Speed Internet Capacity Needed to Get a Job
JOB MARKET TECH - Most folks have internet access, right? If not a desktop setup, at least a phone that can connect you to the internet.
When Employers Steal Wages From Workers
WORKER RIGHTS - Some of the lowest wage workers are getting their livelihoods stolen by their own employers.
Is It Time For Californians to Vote In Florida and Texas?
CALIFORNIA WATCH - Should Floridians get to vote in California elections? Should Californians get to cast ballots in Florida?
Elections, Issues, Positions: Democratic Party Weighs In
REDQUEENINLA - As your Dem Party representative elected at the County level, I am also one of your political reps elected to the Party at the State level.
California’s Future: What Should It Look Like?
CAL MATTERS - When UC-Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies conducted one of its periodic polls of California voters early this year, it discovered that just 36% of them believed that the state is “moving in the right direction” while 54% had a negative view.
Abortion Pills Will Soon Be Available on California Campuses
ROE v. WADE A.D. - As California’s efforts to enshrine abortion access continue, the University of California and California State University are working to provide medication abortions on all campuses by Jan. 1
California Gun Laws Face Legal Assault
GUN LEGISLATION - Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta and other California politicians are incensed that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s law imposing tough limits on concealed weapons permits.
The Battle Over Sports Betting
CAL MATTERS - Californians in November will vote on the fewest statewide ballot measures in more than a century — heightening already intense attention on a pair of dueling initiatives to legalize sports betting.
Is It Time For California Independence?
STATE POLITICS - To encourage us to think about the unthinkable, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets a Doomsday Clock, showing how close humanity is (in metaphorical minutes and seconds) to the “midnight” of the apocalypse (nuclear or otherwise) and human extinction.
Thousands of Californians in Limbo as Eviction Protections End
TENANTS IN CRISIS - Eviction protections for thousands of California households still waiting in line for payments from the state’s multi-billion dollar rent relief program expired Thursday.
How Taxes Are Decided In California
YOUR TAX BILL - Let’s start with the premise that taxation is largely arbitrary.
Stop Using Homelessness To Hate On California
UNHOUSED - In California, homelessness is a long-running crisis. And it is a human tragedy for an estimated 160,000 unhoused people.
What Happens To Abortion in CA?
GUEST COMMENTARY - The constitutional right to abortion in the United States is no more.
Recession Could Wreck California’s Spending Plans
CA BUDGET - The 2022-23 fiscal year will begin in less than a week and Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are still negotiating — or arguing — over how to divvy up a nearly $100 billion projected budget surplus.
Is San Jose Destined To Be A Train Wreck For California Transportation?
RAIL TRANSPO - Can Californians find their way to San Jose?