How would Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton manage California’s most precious resource, water?
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s next governor must reckon with a state of extremes — where weather swings from drought to deluge, and water divides the land of backyard swimming pools from places where grandmothers fear to bathe babies in water from the tap. Climate change is raising […]
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Not only has Gov. Gavin Newsom vocally opposed the proposed California billionaire tax, but he also wants to prevent the state from ever passing a wealth tax in the future. On Friday he endorsed Proposition 42, a ballot measure that would cancel out…
Sudden surge in ICE arrests empties streets in California’s San Joaquin Valley
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In a dim storefront near downtown Fresno, a family gathered to mourn. They wore memorial T-shirts, lit candles, and told stories about their patriarch through tears and sobs. Luis Arreguin didn’t die, but to his closest loved ones, it feels like it. The…
Prop. 43 would make special taxes harder to pass. That’s the point, say anti-tax advocates
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In 2022, 58% of Los Angeles city voters approved a hefty tax on mansion sales. In 2024, 62% of Sonoma County voters backed a half-cent sales tax to fund wildfire response and other emergency services. Neither would have become law under the threshold…
Prop 45 explained: CEQA overhaul could shift who holds power over building
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In 2014, residents…
Newsom apologized to tribes for historic harms, but vetoed 2 bills that would have empowered them
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Five days after signing a law formalizing a state apology for “harms and…
El mismo sindicato que apoya el impuesto a los multimillonarios quiere que los votantes limiten el gasto en clínicas. Esto es lo que debes saber sobre la Proposición 44
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. El mismo sindicato…
