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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 ...

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 ...

/ 6 days 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...

/ 1 week 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...

/ 2 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...

/ 2 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 ...

/ 3 weeks ago

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 ...

/ 4 weeks 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...

/ 4 weeks 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...

/ 1 month ago

Newsom Trump Survey Paradise Fire Aftermath

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...

/ 1 month ago

Eaton Fire

California Housing Crisis Will Get Worse as LA Fires Destroy Homes

The wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles County communities have destroyed at least 10,000 homes so far and more are in the path of still-...

/ 2 months ago

Linda McMahon, nominee for Secretary of Education, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday Feb. 12, 2025. President Donald Trump is preparing to sign an order that would instruct McMahon to begin dismantling her agency, setting the stage for a potential power struggle with Congress and another round of legal challenges from opponents. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
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Trump Is Said to Be Preparing Order That Aims to Eliminate Education Department

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a news conference on imposed U.S. tariffs in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Trudeau Expects a Trade War Between Canada and the US for the ‘Foreseeable Future’

Demonstrators hold photos depicting the faces of Israeli hostages who are being held in the Gaza Strip, during a protest demanding their release from Hamas captivity, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP/Oded Balilty)
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Hamas Brushes off Trump’s Threat and Says It Will Only Free Hostages for a Lasting Truce

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Stock Market Today: Wall Street Falls as AI Stars Lose More of Their Glow

Hikers seen along a trail on Forest Service land in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., March 4, 2025. A government spreadsheet lists thousands of campsites and trails that could shutter for the summer because of federal government staff reductions and budget freezes. (Bridget Bennett/The New York Times)
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Cuts Could Close Campsites and Trails in California, Forest Service Memo Says

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Apply for Fresno Unified Scholarships Before Fast Approaching Deadline

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Trump Wants to Fix US Lumber Industry. Home Prices Hang in the Balance.

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