Opinion

California’s budget is so convoluted that even experts are perplexed at what it contains

California's budget has become opaque, and the plan itself is a hodgepodge of phantom revenues, accounting gimmicks and off-the-books loans.

California Democrats race to ban electric shock gloves before ICE buys them

Democratic lawmakers are advancing a bill to block ICE agents from using gloves that can deliver electric shocks or even to let law enforcement buy them in California ...
CalMatters

The data center backlash is here — and Big Tech is spending big to combat it

Polls show voters are turning sharply against data centers and several bills to regulate the facilities are advancing in the California Legislature. Utilities and tech companies, meanwhile, are ...

California lawmakers reject caps on abuse payouts, but deal could still give schools relief

Legislators struck a last-minute deal that keeps survivors' right to sue over child sex abuse intact but raises the evidence ...

Reducing drug penalties likely increased homelessness in California, new report says

Prop. 47 led to an estimated 7,000 more unsheltered homeless Californians between 2015 and 2019, according to a new PPIC ...