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Gov. Newsom, Mayor Bass Targeted in Wildfire Witch Hunt

When catastrophe strikes, its victims understandably want to know how and why — but their curiosity often morphs into snap judgments and wit...
Newsom, Bass, Padilla at LA Wildfires 2025

Gov. Newsom, Mayor Bass Targeted in Wildfire Witch Hunt

When catastrophe strikes, its victims understandably want to know how and why — but their curiosity often morphs into snap judgments and wit...

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Can New State Regs Resolve California’s Property Insurance Crisis?

There’s no law requiring California property owners to carry insurance, but the vast majority buy it to protect themselves from fire a...

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UC Merced, Born Because of Politics, Is CA’s Expensive Stepchild 20 Years Later

The Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, is marking the 20th anniversary of University of California’s Merced campus with a...

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California Can Fix Its School Crisis by Ditching Gimmicks

When the state Department of Education released academic test scores of California’s public school students in October, it cast them i...

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Will Resistant Marin County Change After a Pro-Housing Gov. Newsom Just Moved In?

Gavin Newsom has just two years remaining of his governorship. As it winds down, he is stepping up efforts to build a national profile towar...

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Californians Send Loud Message: The State Is a Mess

Pundits and academics who have parsed the data of Donald Trump’s presidential victory five weeks ago differ on the fine points but gen...

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CA Needs More Water Storage to Handle Boom-or-Bust Cycles

Each December there’s a new version of an old guessing game about how much water will be provided to agricultural and municipal users in the...

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Sacramento Region Gained People but Flubbed Economic Opportunities Over 50 Years

Fifty years ago this month I moved to Sacramento and a few months later, just after Jerry Brown became governor, began covering politics for...

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Northern California Gets Record Rain and Heavy Snow. Many Have Been in the Dark for Days in Seattle

FORESTVILLE, Calif. — A major storm continued to drop heavy snow and record rain Friday as it moved through Northern California, closing roa...

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$165 Billion Revenue Error Continues to Haunt California’s Budget

History will — or at least should — see a $165 billion error in revenue estimates as one of California’s most boneheaded political act...

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Trump and Biden Both Claim Credit for Gaza Ceasefire Deal

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CEO Arrested For Giving His 8-Year Old Son a Marijuana Gummy

A 47-year-old Madera woman was arrested for DUI after crashing her Ford Explorer into a guardrail on Road 27 Sunday afternoon.
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Madera Woman Arrested for Alleged DUI After Crashing into Guardrail

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate Got a $112 Million Tax Refund

Tiktok’s headquarters in Culver City, Calif., Sept. 8, 2020. TikTok on Jan. 14, 2025 sought to assure its U.S. employees that they will still have jobs next week even if the Supreme Court upholds a law that would see the video app banned in the United States. (Rozette Rago/The New York Times)
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TikTok Says Employees Will Have Jobs Even if Ban Takes Effect

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Wired Wednesday: What’s Causing the Number of Homeless Veterans to Decline?

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New California Bill Would Block Trans Females From Playing in Girls’ Sports

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