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Stories by CalMatters
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Are Newsom’s numerous podcast appearances and travel affecting his work? Hard to say, because his office hasn’t made his full schedule available.
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The settlement affects about 250,000 students, who will get access to additional tutoring and other services.
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Cities are ramping up efforts to ticket and tow vehicles that shelter unhoused Californians.
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Two new California Supreme Court rulings sided with prisoners contesting past gang-related charges, decisions that could affect "three strikes" cases.
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In the most-comprehensive look yet at whether people are using Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court, we found that far fewer Californians are enrolled in the mental health program than he projected.
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A secretive appropriations process killed or reined in three bills regulating the use of pricing algorithms. A bill to monitor data center electricity use was also culled.
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The Assembly Appropriations Committee killed “Leno’s Law” that aimed to give classic car owners a pass from smog requirements.
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The proposal just died in the Legislature’s secretive “suspense file” hearing, following strong objections from local governments and utilities.
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Economists and others worry about politicizing jobs and inflation data after Trump firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief and nomination of partisan replacement.
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The task force, made up of six different state agencies, is the latest effort by the Newsom administration to remove homeless encampments from California’s streets.
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Lawmakers will again fail to set a safe indoor temperature standard for housing, as builders and tenant advocates battle over the cost of retrofits.
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Cal Poly Pomona students and others objected to the Customs and Border Protection agency recruiting at the campus job fair.