This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. At CART High near Fresno, there is no gum stuck to the floor. The saffron-yellow walls are unmarred by graffiti. Toting laptops, students file calmly down spacious, light-filled hallways to classes like biotechnology and digital marketing. There’s no...
California Latinos Take Pride in Casting Ballots in Person. ICE Could Deter Them
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As in-person voting begins in California’s special election on redistricting, Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly asserted that the Trump administration could send immigration agents to polling places in an attempt to intimidate voters and depress turnout. The governor’s...
Should Billionaires Pay More? Unions Want California Voters to Decide
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. For years, Gov. Gavin Newsom has staunchly opposed increasing taxes on wealthy Californians even when the issue repeatedly reared its head during recent tough budget years. But faced with deep federal cuts to social services programs, labor and...
Trump’s DOJ Sending Election Monitors to California for Prop. 50 Voting
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The Trump administration’s Department of Justice will deploy election monitors to five California counties on Election Day, the department announced Friday, in what it describes as an effort to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.”...
California Gives Planned Parenthood $140 Million Boost to Keep Clinics Open
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. After months of financial strain, Planned Parenthood will get a $140 million lifeline to offset losses it sustained after Congress in July cut funding for the health system, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday. The money will help Planned...
What Went Wrong When Marines Fired Over I-5? CA Leaders Demand Answers
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California lawmakers are demanding answers after a live fire demonstration over Camp Pendleton Saturday led to a misfire that rained shrapnel on Interstate 5, striking two California Highway Patrol vehicles. An artillery shell exploded over the freeway during...
A Scholarship for Black California Students Has to Accept White Applicants. Here’s Why
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A scholarship for Black students at UC San Diego is now available to anyone, regardless of race, after students and a right-leaning nonprofit organization sued the university for discrimination this July. The plaintiffs argued that the scholarship fund...
When ICE Comes to a California Hospital, Nurses and Doctors Must Protect Their Patients
This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Armed men with dark, bulletproof vests entered my hospital unit just before dawn on June 19 and began loudly insisting I take them to a patient’s room. The agents demanded confidential information, saying the patient they were looking...
Supporters Way Ahead in Fundraising for Newsom’s Prop. 50, but Race Is Close
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California, listen up: Former President Barack Obama wants you to know that the whole nation is counting on you this November. “Democracy is on the ballot,” the 44th president says straight to camera in the latest advertisement from...
Cal State Workers Are Getting a One-Time Bonus, Paid for by a $144 Million Loan Due Next Year
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The California State University system will seek a state loan of $144 million that it’ll have a year to repay at no interest, even though current projections show the system will have to add to its deficit to...