Local election officials across the U.S. are facing a range of challenges as they look ahead to this year’s elections – and 2028 as well. Among the biggest: how to serve a rapidly diversifying ...

It’s early to think of what California’s fiscal budget may look like by the time lawmakers finalize it in June. But Gov. Gavin Newsom is already banking on the tech industry to save the state from ...

Today we welcome Clint Kellum, the new (as of November 2025) Director of the California Department of Cannabis Control.  The CDCC licenses and regulates cannabis businesses, including regulation of ...

OPINION - Billionaires are uniquely positioned in their ability to help stop a healthcare collapse here in California. These are individuals who have accumulated tremendous wealth thanks to the unique ...

Lobbyist, author and McGeorge law professor Chris Micheli offers a quick look at what’s coming up this week under the Capitol Dome.

It has been another busy week around the Capitol. Her are some of the highlights, lowlights and one big eye roll…in brief!

OPINION – California has demonstrated that ambitious climate policy and economic growth can move in lockstep as we have reduced carbon emissions and built one of the largest clean energy economies in ...

OPINION - Governor Newsom, with his Presidential aspirations hidden from no one, ought to seize this opportunity on ...

The most intense parlor game in Sacramento is that of projecting the composition of June’s Top Two gubernatorial primary. Not ...

Special interests paid lobbying firms more than $91 million to lobby state government in the fourth quarter of 2025, ...

OPINION - If California is serious about youth mental health, we must fund the physical “operating system” that replaces the ...

When the California Legislature includes certain statements in legislation that is ultimately enacted, I believe these ...