Newsom’s final budget sends more than a billion dollars to University of California, Cal State

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s public colleges and universities emerged as winners in the latest state budget after lawmakers sent them hundreds of millions of dollars in new public spending. However, that largesse was tempered by decisions by Democrats in Sacramento to reject bond measures that could…

Most California senators supported this ADA lawsuit bill. It died anyway

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. For years, state Sen. Roger Niello has attempted to address what he sees as a persistent issue: predatory law firms and their disabled clients suing swaths of small businesses for disability access violations.  It started when he heard about Scott Johnson, a quadriplegic…