2+ week, 4+ day ago   (573+ words) Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Aug. 22 designed to protect immigration service providers and humanitarian volunteers from targeted harassment, doxing and violence. Authored by Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland), Assembly Bill (AB) 2624, the Privacy for Immigration Support Services Providers Act, establishes…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1203+ words) A survivor of childhood trauma, Nichole Pettway entered the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation dealing with mental health challenges and was unable to read or write. She gave birth to her third child while incarcerated at the Central California…...

1+ mon, 2+ hour ago   (1596+ words) Three Black Women Among Gov. Newsom’s Recent Judicial Appointments Gov. Gavin Newsom has nominated three Black women — Justice Rashida Adams and Judges Denise Hippach and Juliet Macaulay — to serve on California Courts of Appeal. They are among eight appellate court…...

1+ mon, 2+ hour ago   (806+ words) California voters will decide this November whether to change how the state replaces elected officials who are removed from office through a recall election. Proposition (Prop) 5 would eliminate the current system in which voters simultaneously decide whether to recall a…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (479+ words) California voters will decide in November whether to amend the state Constitution to prohibit new taxes on retirement savings, personal assets and other forms of personal wealth while also banning retroactive taxation. Proposition (Prop) 42, titled the Prohibit New Taxes on…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1310+ words) California Lawmakers Return for Final Month of Legislative Session The California Legislature’s summer recess has officially concluded, with lawmakers returning to Sacramento on Aug. 3 for the final four weeks of the 2025–2026 legislative session. The packed agenda includes hundreds of active…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1217+ words) Two years ago, California hit a milestone decades in the making: Nearly every person in the state qualified for health insurance, regardless of immigration status and income, pushing the state’s insured rate to a record 95%. Now that progress is unravelling....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (697+ words) California voters will decide this November whether to make it more difficult to approve local special taxes proposed through the citizen initiative process. Proposition (Prop) 43 would amend the California Constitution to require two-thirds voter approval for all local special taxes,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (849+ words) With less than three months until the general election, Darius Kemp, executive director of California Common Cause, says California must protect both election security and voter access for the state’s approximately 23 million eligible voters. Kemp delivered that message during a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1290+ words) In a Capitol more often defined by policy debates and partisan differences, California lawmakers recently offered a reminder that respect, friendship and collegiality can still rise above politics. On July 17, legislators from both sides of the aisle came together to…...