SACRAMENTO — This just seems wrong: Californians overwhelmingly approved an anti-crime ballot measure in November. But our governor strongly opposed the proposition. So he’s not funding it.Gov.…
SAN FRANCISCO — Inside the once-bustling campaign headquarters for California’s medical marijuana initiative hangs a portrait of an angel with delicate wings, a sly smile and a…
The Democratic-led Legislature’s efforts to shield immigrants from the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation efforts, and attacks on so-called sanctuary states, promise to be among the…
The U.S. Census Bureau reported that California’s population started growing again last year after three years of unprecedented decline. But don’t let the modest, 0.6%…
As egg prices continue to skyrocket due to continuing outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu, the U.S. secretary of Agriculture has announced a multipronged strategy to…
For decades, I could count on my native Orange County to act against immigrants, legal and not, as regularly as the swallows returned to Capistrano.…
SACRAMENTO — After last year’s passage of Proposition 36 — a ballot measure that allows more theft and drug crimes to be charged as felonies —…
California and Los Angeles County are getting tougher on crime.The stiffer penalties on some drug and theft crimes that voters recently approved with Proposition 36…
Tax revenues have exceeded estimates in California, but Gov. Gavin Newsom’s spending proposals and other state costs could quickly swallow up any extra funds. An…
Thirty years ago this fall, California’s Latino voters coalesced into a multigenerational ethnic voting bloc for the first time in response to a draconian, citizen-led…
Criminal justice reform advocates spent the summer warning that efforts to oust California’s progressive district attorneys and undo sentencing reforms would undermine a decade of…
This Thanksgiving, let’s be thankful for giving thanks. Research has shown that practicing gratitude is a good way to deal with stress or anxiety. The…
Californians, who have historically supported efforts to raise the minimum wage, were not swayed this time around.After two weeks of postelection uncertainty, Proposition 32, the…
SACRAMENTO — The state Legislature will convene a new two-year session on Dec. 2, and hopefully lawmakers have been reading the messages California voters sent them…
A progressive prison reform that was on the ballot in California and Nevada this month met drastically different outcomes after the votes were counted: In…
We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion famously wrote, and the one Democrats in California repeated for decades was Proposition 187.Californians of…
For nearly 40 years, a controversial California law has required companies to place warning labels on their products alerting consumers to the potential health threats…
California voters decided this week to roll back criminal justice reforms and appeared to be ousting progressive prosecutors in Los Angeles and Alameda counties, effectively…
In deep-blue L.A. County, the “godfather of progressive prosecutors” lost his reelection bid by more than 20 percentage points to a former Republican.In the Bay…
SACRAMENTO — Just under half of California voters support Proposition 32, the measure to increase California’s minimum wage to $18 an hour, a warning sign about…