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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...

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Santa Monica Apartment Construction

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...

/ 1 week 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 ...

/ 2 weeks ago

Newsom and Trump Meet in LA After Wildfires

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...

/ 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...

/ 4 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...

/ 4 weeks ago

Aerial View of Palisades Wildfire Destruction 2025

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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High Speed Rail Overpass South Fresno

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...

/ 1 month ago

Newsom Greets Trump LA Wildfires

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...

/ 2 months ago

A money dispute between acquaintances escalated into a violent robbery, prompting a Tactical Operations callout by Clovis Police, resulting in the arrest of .James Johnson, 46, of Clovis, and Nathan Medina, 36, of Fresno. (Clovis PD)
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Clovis Money Dispute Leads to Pistol-Whipping, SWAT Callout

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Putin and Trump Will Speak on Tuesday About the War in Ukraine

Hector Lopez, 35, of Clovis, was arrested after a road rage shooting led to a SWAT standoff, with police later discovering buried firearms and determining his child was in the vehicle during the incident. (Clovis PD)
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Clovis Father Arrested After Road Rage Shooting, SWAT Standoff With Child in Car

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupy the lobby of Barnard College’s main library in Manhattan, on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Mahmoud Khalil was the public face of pro-Palestinian protests — officials have accused him, without providing details, of leading activities aligned with Hamas, an allegation he has denied. (Marco Postigo Storel/The New York Times)
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What’s Next for Mahmoud Khalil? A Fight to Keep His Case in New York.

A Social Security office in Manhattan on March 16, 2020. The deep cuts at the Social Security Administration could destabilize the program, which keeps millions of people out of poverty, current and former employees say. (Joshua Bright/The New York Times)
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Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From DOGE

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) leaves after speaking with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2025. Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, on Monday, March 17, 2025, postponed a multicity tour to promote his forthcoming book, citing security concerns amid backlash to his decision to vote with Republicans for a stopgap spending bill to stave off a government shutdown. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
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Schumer Postpones Book Tour Amid Backlash to Voting With Republicans

President Donald Trump meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)
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Democracy Is on the Line in Israel and America Right Now

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Will Fresno EOC Board Order Forensic Audit of Troubled Finances?

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