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Judge Rejects Changing the Name of California’s Trans Youth Ballot Measure

A group working on a fall ballot initiative that would limit the rights of transgender students lost a round in court Monday when a judge si...

/ 4 days ago

Newsom Wants to Make It Easier for Arizona Women to Get a California Abortion

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest moves to defend abortion rights are aimed at a neighbor, plus a Deep South state. Lynn La CalMatters Targeting...

/ 4 days ago

California Leaders Take Sides in Monumental Supreme Court Case on Homelessness

The U.S. Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest case about homelessness in decades, and it seems like everyone in California has an opin...

/ 7 days ago

McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines Are So Unreliable They’re a Meme. They Might Also Be a Climate Solution.

McDonald’s might just be a new frontier in our fight against the climate crisis. Reid Heavner Special to CalMatters Opinion Yes, that McD...

/ 1 week ago

Vital Climate Tool or License to Pollute? The Battle Over CA’s First Carbon Capture Project

In western Kern County, where rolling hills are punctuated by bobbing rigs, the state’s largest oil and gas producer is betting that a novel...

/ 1 week ago

Why Tortillas Sold in California May Be Forced to Add a New Ingredient

Corn chips, tortillas, tamales, and pupusas — while all are delicious — may be missing a key vitamin for women of reproductive age. Ana B....

/ 2 weeks ago

How California Legislators Got More Than $1.4 Million in Travel and Gifts in 2023

Last June, more than half of California’s lawmakers — Republicans and Democrats alike, with no particular ideological preference — attended ...

/ 2 weeks ago

Sacramento Gave Homeless Camp a Lease as an Experiment. Here’s What Happened.

When Sacramento changed its plan to demolish a homeless encampment on a vacant lot on Colfax Street, instead offering the homeless occupants...

/ 2 weeks ago

As PG&E Bills Skyrocket, Will California Lawmakers Hold Anyone Accountable?

Unaffordable housing, high transportation and health care costs – it’s hard enough to get by in California without also worrying about crank...

/ 2 weeks ago

California Community Colleges Losing Millions to Pell Grant Scammers

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 ...

/ 3 weeks ago

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Fresno Oops? Garbage Hike Protest Vote Delayed by Error

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Trump’s Potential VP Pick Boasts About Executing Puppy

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Trita Parsi: Blind Support for Israel Erodes Western Democracies

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Which Six QBs Were Selected in the Top 12 of the NFL Draft?

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Nuggets Close to Sweeping Lakers After Game 3 Win

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Jose Ramirez: ‘I Want to Make a Statement and Put on a Show’

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