After 170 years of population growth — occasionally explosive growth — California is now experiencing population loss for the first time. As foreign immigration and...
One cannot overstate the importance of Colorado River water in the evolution of Southern California from a collection of small cities and villages into a...
With the Legislature just days away from adjourning its 2022 session, Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued a series of decrees and demands that, he says,...
When California voters passed Proposition 13, the state’s iconic property tax limit, in 1978, it was merely the opening salvo of a decades-long political war...
California, the nation’s wealthiest state, also has the nation’s most severe homelessness crisis. The most recent official count of Californians lacking permanent shelter is 161,000...
Down in the trenches of California’s seemingly perpetual clashes over housing, warring factions are employing two decades-old state laws as weapons. One is the famous...
When Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down much of the state’s economy 2 1/2 years ago to slow the spread of COVID-19, more than 2 million...
Administrations and faculties at University of California campuses are embroiled in a searing controversy over requirements that applicants for faculty positions and candidates for promotion...
As the 2021-22 state budget was being finalized in June of last year, a $279.5 million appropriation was quietly inserted into the massive spending plan before it...
In theory, the state requires licenses for those who engage in dozens of professions and occupations to protect the public. After all, one doesn’t want...
