In the fifth installment of our ongoing look at candidates to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom when he terms out next year, we look ...

OPINION - A state entity like the California Education Learning Lab is essential for keeping California at the forefront of ...

Both the Legislature and the Governor in California play critical roles in the development and adoption of the state budget.

There’s only two weeks before the completion of the 2024 March Primary and early numbers are suggesting an historically low turnout. Last year we looked at turnout patterns in presidential primary ...

California recently approved three sweeping environmental laws: SB 54, SB 343, and AB 1201. Hopefully, this game-changing legislation will shape national policy about recycling, composting, plastic ...

In just a few months, Capitol Weekly will unveil its 16th annual Top 100 list recognizing the most influential members of the Capitol community. As we began researching this year’s list, however, we ...

It is not hyperbole to call the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act of 1967 one of the most impactful pieces of California legislation of the last 60 years. The law, named for its three primary authors, ...

Phil Isenberg, a former Sacramento mayor and one of the most influential Democratic members of the Assembly in the 1980s and 1990s, died Thursday after a short illness. He was 84. A UC ...

Brian Bloom was an Alameda County public defender for nearly three decades, part of a specialized mental health unit whose clients suffered from severe mental illness, many unable to understand – or ...

This is the second of a two-part series analyzing the impact of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast, “This is Gavin Newsom.” Part one can be accessed here. In last week’s article we reviewed polling on ...

In January 2020, Californians thought they were getting out of the private prison business. They are, but under a new law, AB 32, which went into effect at the first of that year, the state remains ...

After absorbing sunshine all summer, mature rice plants in California’s Sacramento Valley stand as high as three feet tall, in five inches of flood water. Planted in spring, farmers drain their fields ...