SACRAMENTO — On Thursday in the Assembly, Democrats shut down an attempt to protect 16- and 17-year-olds and let the law punish the customers who would buy teenagers for sex. “I often disagree w...
By Jeremia Kimelman, CalMatters Lobbying groups spent more than half a billion dollars to influence the state government in 2024, the most ever, according to a CalMatters analysis of data recently fil...
Sacramento, CA — The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) has approved a severely limited recreational ocean salmon fishing season for California in 2025, structured to ensure “negligible i...
By Katy GrimesCalifornia Globe California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Medi-Cal program is insolvent. Newsom just confessed last month that California’s Medi-Cal is insolvent. Medi-Cal is California’s Medi...
California just blew a deadline for voter-approved health care measure — losing millions of federal dollars By Kristen Hwang, CalMatters California voters told lawmakers last fall that they want...
By Lauren HeplerCalMatters investigative report A new state bill would add more oversight to California homeless shelters after a CalMatters investigation exposed that many taxpayer-funded facilities...
BY LYNN LACalMatters – What-Matters To cover a budget gap in Medi-Cal — which provides health insurance for roughly 15 million disabled and low-income Californians — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administ...
By Sen. Megan Dahle California has its share of budget problems, and resolving them can be complicated, but I know one thing: The state shouldn’t balance its books on the backs of wildfire victims. Th...
By Katy Grimesthe Editor in Chief of the California Globe By the time California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, he had been warned by many that it wo...
Minimum Wage Lawsuit Adjunct Professors Secure Court Ruling that Long Beach City College District Must Pay for Hours of Unpaid Work Long Beach –In late February, hundreds of Long Beach part-time...