Ray LeBov is well known around the Capitol—not just for his prowess as a lobbyist and former legislative counsel but also for ...

Governor Gavin Newsom has expressed support for excluding trans girls from girls’ sports.  This is a tempting position because it would seem “fair” to keep boys out of girls’ sports and “unfair” to ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom's new podcast has sent shockwaves through California's political world. But is there more to Newsom's ...

PODCAST: Longtime political columnist Dan Walters joins us to talk about his fifty years covering state capitol politics.

With climate science settled, Big Oil spreads a new lie to keep its profits rolling in – that climate action is an expensive ...

In August, the Nonprofit Insurance Alliance, which insured 90 percent of the 220 private foster agencies in California, ...

In recent weeks our intrepid Chris Micheli has given us a detailed look at California’s complex official rulemaking process.

California's official rulemaking process is, to say the last, incredibly complex. In this second of a two-part Micheli Files, ...

The fires that scorched Southern California last month were the opposite of a “natural” disaster. They were driven by the ...

One of the most expensive misuses of local taxpayer dollars in the U.S. is the amount of money spent disposing of recyclable ...

PODCAST: Claire Conlon got her start in the capitol as a legislative aide in 2011, and has held a wide variety of roles since ...

OPINION - A new California Mobility Index (CMI) ranking the state’s four-year institutions did more than highlight the importance of the California State University (CSU) system to low- and ...