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Study Tells CA Legislators to Declare War on Red Tape. Will They Do It?

Construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and its more famous cousin, the Golden Gate Bridge, began in 1933, and both were carryi...

Study Tells CA Legislators to Declare War on Red Tape. Will They Do It?

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Newsom’s Failed Housing and Homelessness Promises Near End of Term

With just 22 months remaining in his governorship, Gavin Newsom knows that two interrelated promises he made to voters seven years ago — to ...

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Trump, Newsom Play High-Stakes Game Over Billions in Wildfire Aid

After voters shunned Kamala Harris and sent Donald Trump back to the White House, California Gov. Gavin Newsom immediately positioned himsel...

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The timing could not have been better — or worse. Dan Walters CalMatters Opinion The horrendously destructive and deadly Los Angeles wild...

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Conflicting Studies Obscure Reality of California’s Fast Food Wage Battle

California’s Capitol has seen countless conflicts between economic interests, but few match the intensity of a duel between the fast f...

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Will ‘Too Many Cooks’ Complicate LA’s Recovery From Deadly Fires?

A proverb said to have arisen in 16th-century England postulates that “too many cooks spoil the broth.” When too many people are working on ...

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Trump Targets Troubled CA Bullet Train Project. Will He Kill It, Too?

Talk about timing. President Donald Trump denounced California’s bullet train for the project’s delays and rising costs on Tuesday and said ...

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CA School Test Scores Trail Those of States Newsom Considers Culturally Backward

When Gov. Gavin Newsom issues one of his periodic boasts about California’s superiority vis-a-vis other states — particularly those wi...

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“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” Stanford economist Paul Romer said at a venture capital seminar 21 years ago, referring to the incr...

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LA Fires Add Tricky New Wrinkle to Trump-Newsom Feud

As Donald Trump this week assumed the presidency for the second time, he rekindled his personal and political feud with California and its g...

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Study Tells CA Legislators to Declare War on Red Tape. Will They Do It?

Study Tells CA Legislators to Declare War on Red Tape. Will They Do It?

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Newsom’s Failed Housing and Homelessness Promises Near End of Term

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Conflicting Studies Obscure Reality of California’s Fast Food Wage Battle

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Will ‘Too Many Cooks’ Complicate LA’s Recovery From Deadly Fires?

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Trump Targets Troubled CA Bullet Train Project. Will He Kill It, Too?

/ 1 month ago

CA School Test Scores Trail Those of States Newsom Considers Culturally Backward

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Why CA Fire Response Could Make or Break These Political Careers

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LA Fires Add Tricky New Wrinkle to Trump-Newsom Feud

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Fresno Man Used Popular Game ‘Among Us’ to Exploit Minor Pled Guilty

Ontario Slaps 25% Tax Increase on Electricity Exports to US in Response to Trump’s Trade War

Bakersfield Man Who Made Bomb Found Near Community Pool Pleads Guilty

Fresno City Attorney Janz Launches Probe Into Attack Campaign Mailer

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Mindy Casto Sworn in as 24th Fresno Police Chief

Costa Says Trump Laid Trap for Zelenskyy, Calls Conference a ‘Setup’

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