Children compelled to clean up California with new book
To increase the environmental knowledge base of the state’s kids, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the Los Angeles ...
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Lawmakers move to give Newsom a bill to legalize psychedelic therapy
Gov. Gavin Newsom last fall signaled he was ready to bring psychedelic drugs into the mainstream of California’s mental health ...
Newsom budgets have a lousy track record forecasting tax revenues
A review of recent state budgets and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s newly released 2024-25 budget proposal reveals truly monumental errors in ...
California won’t vote for its next governor until June 2026, but the race is already crowded
Voters won’t weigh in for more than two years, the primary election is not until June 2026, but the race ...
Will Newsom confront the state’s budget problems or leave them to his successor?
California governors tend to leave hefty budget deficits behind when they depart, forcing their successors to raise taxes, borrow money ...
Legislature’s analyst gives mixed review of Newsom budget
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recipe for digging the state out of a multi-billion dollar budget hole has "strengths and weaknesses" while ...
Newsom seeks to delay a wage increase for health care workers he’d approved
California health care workers banking on a state-ordered minimum wage increase later this year might have to wait a little ...
Economic reality bites as Newsom faces big budget problem
During his much ballyhooed, nationally televised debate with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom boasted that ...
Newsom signs laws to fast-track housing on churches’ lands, streamline housing permitting process
Religious institutions and nonprofit colleges in California will be allowed to turn their parking lots and other properties into low-income ...
Minimum wage for fast food workers set to $20 per hour
California fast food workers will be paid at least $20 per hour next year under a new law signed Thursday ...
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