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Newsom Tacks Right to Oppose Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. So what game is Gavin Newsom playing? Ever since Demo...

Newsom Tacks Right to Oppose Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. So what game is Gavin Newsom playing? Ever since Demo...

Opinion

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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...

Opinion

/ 2 days ago

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 ...

Opinion

/ 2 weeks ago

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...

Opinion

/ 2 weeks ago

LA Wildfires Intensify Political Jousting Over Home Insurance Premiums

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

Opinion

/ 3 weeks ago

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...

Opinion

/ 3 weeks ago

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 ...

Dan Walters

/ 4 weeks ago

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 ...

Opinion

/ 1 month ago

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...

Opinion

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Why CA Fire Response Could Make or Break These Political Careers

“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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US Arms Flow to Ukraine Again as the Kremlin Mulls a Ceasefire Proposal

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EPA Head Says He’ll Roll Back Dozens of Environmental Regulations

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Canada and the EU Swiftly Retaliate Against Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs

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California Doesn’t Need DOGE, but There’s Plenty of Wasteful Spending and Bureaucracy to Cut

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Fresno County Confirms Measles Case. Health Officials Stress Vaccination

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How and When to Watch Thursday Night’s Blood Moon Total Eclipse

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This Time Around for Fresno State, DOG Stands for ‘Day of Giving.’ And It’s Coming Soon

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Anti-Zionist Synagogue Breaks From Mainstream Jewish Stance

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Special Ed Teachers Are Hard to Recruit. Here’s How Clovis Unified Is Succeeding.

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Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto Sets Her Sights on Community and Accountability

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Wired Wednesday: How Tariffs Could Impact California’s Agriculture

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Rep. Costa Says DOGE Is Making ‘Hasty,’ Uninformed Decisions

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Mindy Casto Sworn in as 24th Fresno Police Chief

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US Factories Likely to Feel the Pain From Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs

Trump Admin Halts $1 Billion Program That Keeps Affordable Housing Livable

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Lake Superior Shipwreck From 1892 Finally Discovered

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Newsom Tacks Right to Oppose Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports

Newsom Tacks Right to Oppose Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports

/ 1 day ago

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

/ 2 days ago

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

/ 2 weeks ago

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

/ 2 weeks ago

LA Wildfires Intensify Political Jousting Over Home Insurance Premiums

/ 3 weeks ago

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

/ 3 weeks ago

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

/ 4 weeks ago

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

/ 1 month ago

Why CA Fire Response Could Make or Break These Political Careers

/ 1 month ago

US Arms Flow to Ukraine Again as the Kremlin Mulls a Ceasefire Proposal

EPA Head Says He’ll Roll Back Dozens of Environmental Regulations

Canada and the EU Swiftly Retaliate Against Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs

California Doesn’t Need DOGE, but There’s Plenty of Wasteful Spending and Bureaucracy to Cut

Fresno County Confirms Measles Case. Health Officials Stress Vaccination

How and When to Watch Thursday Night’s Blood Moon Total Eclipse

This Time Around for Fresno State, DOG Stands for ‘Day of Giving.’ And It’s Coming Soon

Anti-Zionist Synagogue Breaks From Mainstream Jewish Stance

Special Ed Teachers Are Hard to Recruit. Here’s How Clovis Unified Is Succeeding.

Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto Sets Her Sights on Community and Accountability

Wired Wednesday: How Tariffs Could Impact California’s Agriculture

Rep. Costa Says DOGE Is Making ‘Hasty,’ Uninformed Decisions

Mindy Casto Sworn in as 24th Fresno Police Chief

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