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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?

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

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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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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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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?

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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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