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How California’s Bureaucracy Prevents Working-Class Transplants from Resuming Their Careers

Uprooting your life to a new state is never an easy experience. In my case, it was due to tragic circumstances. Norma Ponce Special to Cal...

How California’s Bureaucracy Prevents Working-Class Transplants from Resuming Their Careers

Uprooting your life to a new state is never an easy experience. In my case, it was due to tragic circumstances. Norma Ponce Special to Cal...

Opinion

/ 3 days ago

Gavin Newsom for President? These Are His Assets and Liabilities

In the nearly two weeks since President Joe Biden’s catastrophic performance in a televised debate, the Democratic freakout over whether he ...

Politics

/ 4 days ago

Supreme Court Stripped Federal Regulators of Power. Do California Rules Offer a Backstop?

Tucked between headline-grabbing opinions on presidential immunity, Jan. 6 rioters and homeless encampments, the U.S. Supreme Court closed o...

California

/ 4 days ago

California Boosts Spending to Help Students Earn Math and Science Degrees

Alina Kralya tinkers with a microcontroller for one of her computer science projects at American River College. Nearby, a group of other fir...

Education

/ 5 days ago

California’s ‘Weak’ Job Market Propped Up by Public Money as Private Sector Sheds Jobs

Gains in public-sector and other jobs largely supported by public money have cloaked a dismal California labor market, which has seen a big ...

Economy

/ 6 days ago

Hundreds of Deaths, Thousands of Injuries, Billions of Dollars: The Cost of Extreme Heat in California

A blistering California heat wave over the past week and through the Fourth of July holiday could be topped off by the hottest temperature e...

Economy

/ 1 week ago

A UC Merced Medical Program Is Slowly Taking Shape. Why California Wants More Doctors There

A hospital closure in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley a year and a half ago underscored something that people in the region have long kn...

Education

/ 1 week ago

Why Many Illegal Fireworks Could Be Gone in California Next July Fourth

For eight years, Mike Salazar has spent Fourth of July week selling fireworks in an empty parking lot in Vernon. His truck is covered floor ...

Cal Matters

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Does a Proposed $10 Billion Bond Favor Richer California School Districts?

As lawmakers finalize a school facilities bond for the November ballot, some superintendents from low-income and small districts say the pro...

Education

/ 2 weeks ago

California Now Has Mandatory Water Conservation in Urban Areas: How Will the New Rules Affect Your Supplier?

Despite California’s perpetual struggles with water shortages, state regulators today adopted mandatory conservation measures that are subst...

Water

/ 2 weeks ago

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Gov. Gavin Newsom: California Leads Nation in Economic Growth and Expansion

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How California’s Bureaucracy Prevents Working-Class Transplants from Resuming Their Careers

How California’s Bureaucracy Prevents Working-Class Transplants from Resuming Their Careers

/ 3 days ago

Gavin Newsom for President? These Are His Assets and Liabilities

/ 4 days ago

Supreme Court Stripped Federal Regulators of Power. Do California Rules Offer a Backstop?

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California Boosts Spending to Help Students Earn Math and Science Degrees

/ 5 days ago

California’s ‘Weak’ Job Market Propped Up by Public Money as Private Sector Sheds Jobs

/ 6 days ago

Hundreds of Deaths, Thousands of Injuries, Billions of Dollars: The Cost of Extreme Heat in California

/ 1 week ago

A UC Merced Medical Program Is Slowly Taking Shape. Why California Wants More Doctors There

/ 1 week ago

Why Many Illegal Fireworks Could Be Gone in California Next July Fourth

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Does a Proposed $10 Billion Bond Favor Richer California School Districts?

/ 2 weeks ago

California Now Has Mandatory Water Conservation in Urban Areas: How Will the New Rules Affect Your Supplier?

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Biden Orders Secret Service to Protect RFK Jr. After Attempt on Trump’s Life

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Donald Trump Picks Sen. J.D. Vance as Running Mate

Gov. Gavin Newsom: California Leads Nation in Economic Growth and Expansion

Fresno Council Zoom Bomber Indicted on Federal Charges

Fresno Unified’s Early Registration for Elementary School Kids Is Underway

Project 2025, Explained

When Progressive Ideals Become a Luxury

From Madera Wheat Field to Wine Haven: Tony Kirk’s Journey with Birdstone Winery

Does Joe Biden Realize How Angry These Michigan Voters Are?

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