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CalMatters
CalMatters is a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization bringing Californians stories that probe, explain and explore solutions to quality of life issues while holding our leaders accountable. We are the only journalism outlet dedicated to covering America’s biggest state, 39 million Californians and the world’s fifth largest economy.
CalMatters is a longstanding partner of LAist and its reporters in Los Angeles have desks in the LAist newsroom. Both nonprofit newsrooms have grants from The LA Local, which at LAist funds two reporters and an editor on the watchdog journalism team.
Stories by CalMatters
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The Boyle Heights and Garden Grove emergencies are raising questions about emergency planning, inspections and accountability.
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California prisons are limiting access to programs for incarcerated people as the system manages it overtime budget. The state spends about $18 billion a year on corrections.
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Hospitals and a healthcare union have agreed to pull rival initiatives from the ballot, but a proposed one-time 5% tax on billionaires remains headed to November voters.
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California voters will decide on 14 statewide policy proposals come November, from the controversial billionaire tax to an $11 billion affordable housing bond.
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Bills moving through the California Legislature this year address state-funded sober housing, parked RVs and homelessness prevention.
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The Trump administration wants to shift more money to homeless shelters that require sobriety, a change that would disrupt California's "housing-first" policies.
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Ahead of a Thursday deadline, California Democrats are striking deals with interest groups to kick controversial measures off the November ballot.
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As community colleges replace courses by mail with online classes, students and professors debate whether this type of learning is any more effective.
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One good governance advocate calls it a “virtual horror show of governmental non-transparency.”
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Mental health professionals at Kaiser are raising concerns about an artificial intelligence tool that records medical appointments, saying it should have more safeguards.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom said the Trump administration appears to be investigating him and his wife.
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State officials have found they are using six high-risk AI-like systems. One year ago, they reported using zero.
