Congress is tied up in knots over the scope and financing of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion basket of enhanced social, educational and medical benefits. Although...
Well, that was one for the history books. In the space of two decades, California voters recalled one Democratic governor and refused to recall another. Voting...
Win or lose, could Gavin Newsom be the last California governor to face a recall election? As final ballots are cast and election officials begin counting...
Whatever else the California Legislature did or didn’t do this year, it finally — and very belatedly — took a long-needed step toward ridding the state...
As if California needed another crisis, the state’s seemingly perpetual wildfires are forcing millions of homeowners in fire-prone areas to pay skyrocketing premiums for insurance coverage...
Six years ago, the HBO network aired an episode of “True Detective,” an anthology of complicated crime stories. It was set in the fictional Southern California...
A week from now we’ll know – maybe – whether Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of a state utterly dominated by the Democratic Party, will lose...
An acquaintance had some good news to impart last week: Her son, who operates construction machinery, just got a raise from $43 an hour to $57....
For more than a half-century, California has been trying to nudge county and city governments into generating enough new housing to handle an ever-increasing demand. The...
The COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve been told, changes everything and that may include one of California’s oldest social support systems, workers’ compensation. Legislative tinkering and a potentially...
