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

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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...

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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...

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/ 5 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 ...

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/ 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...

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/ 3 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...

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/ 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...

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/ 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 ...

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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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/ 1 month ago

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

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

/ 4 days ago

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

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LA Wildfires Intensify Political Jousting Over Home Insurance Premiums

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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?

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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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Protesters in Fresno Rally Against Tesla and Elon Musk

Trump Considers Massive Extension of Travel Ban Targeting Up to 43 Countries

George Soros and Elon Musk Clash in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

Romania’s Democracy Tested as Court Blocks Controversial Presidential Bid

Trump Orders Strikes on Houthi Rebels in Yemen, Issues New Warning to Iran

Merced Kicks Off $3.5 Million Bob Hart Square Renovation

Playing Political Whac-A-Mole As Issue Of Bond Measure Language Pops Up Again

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Protesters in Fresno Rally Against Tesla and Elon Musk

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

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