While redistricting has taken center stage for the moment, when lawmakers return next week they will also have a full package ...

OPINION - Without swift action to reauthorize the cap-and-trade program and implement updates to align with the state’s ...

Opinion - Rideshare gave me the flexibility to continue pursuing educational passions while serving my community in a new way. Assembly Bill 1340, which is currently moving through the State ...

Lobbyist, professor, and author Chris Micheli offers a quick look at what’s coming up this week in Sacramento.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris ended speculation that she would run for governor of California with posts on social media this afternoon.

For more than five decades, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act has been the foundation for how California treats or fails to treat people with severe mental illness. Now, legislators from both parties ...

In just a few months, Capitol Weekly will unveil its 16th annual Top 100 list recognizing the most influential members of the Capitol community. As we began researching this year’s list, however, we ...

If there was any single event that sped the emptying of state asylums in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was the publication of a 204-page report entitled, “The Dilemma of Mental ...

California abolished private prisons in 2020, but the state remains heavily invested in backing for-profit correctional services.

Decades of underinvestment in schools, culture battles over bilingual education, and dizzying levels of income inequality have pushed California to the bottom of the pile, making it the least literate ...

In a significant policy shift spanning nearly two decades, 30 counties in California – including all of the larger counties, with an estimated 80 percent of the state’s population – have now adopted a ...