Sep 20, 2025 | Opinion, Legislation
By Damon Connolly
September 20, 2025
It is tragically self-evident that the Trump administration poses a unique threat to our freedoms, shared values and diverse communities. The National Guard is being sent to American cities against the will of local elected leaders and the residents themselves, federal agencies designed to help the most vulnerable are being gutted and whole neighborhoods live in fear that their family members will be seized and sent off to brutal foreign prisons without due process.
Sep 18, 2025 | Politics, Legislation
by Jeanne Kuang
September 18, 2025
Over several rivers and through even more woods, flags advocating secession from California flutter above hills dotted with cattle, which outnumber people at least sixfold. This ranching region with a libertarian streak might have more in common with Texas than the San Francisco Bay Area. But it’s not Texas. And California is dominated by Democrats, that will likely force conservative Modoc County residents to share a representative in Congress with parts of the Bay Area.
Sep 14, 2025 | Housing, Legislation, Opinion
By Emily Hoeven,
Sep 12, 2025
Two months ago, California passed what many described as the “Holy Grail” of housing reform: a law that exempts most urban infill projects from review under the California Environmental Quality Act, which interest groups often cynically leverage to delay or deny developments for reasons that have nothing to do with the environment. Now, one of the state’s most powerful Democratic lawmakers is seeking to reverse that.
Sep 5, 2025 | Housing, Legislation
By Dan Walters
September 5, 2025
Two months ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators from both parties celebrated enacting landmark legislation to remove the California Environmental Quality Act as an impediment to new housing construction. Lopsided votes in the Legislature for Assembly Bill 130 and Newsom’s immediate signature seemingly ended decades of debate over how the environmental law, signed by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan more than 50 years ago, was being used to delay or kill residential developments.
Sep 4, 2025 | Legislation, Politics
By Sophia Bollag
Sep 4, 2025
Shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom first suggested retaliating against Texas’ efforts to redraw congressional maps to favor Republicans, California redistricting commissioner Sara Sadhwani threw cold water on the idea. A couple of weeks later, Sadhwani changed her tune. She’s now one of the top spokespeople for Newsom’s campaign to redraw California’s congressional seats in favor of Democrats, even starring in one of the campaign’s ads.
Aug 29, 2025 | Legislation, Housing
By Chritopher Legras
August 29, 2025
Serious question, occasioned by ample evidence and experience: Do some members of California’s political class actually want people to die horrific deaths in wildfires and other natural disasters? Because they’re sure acting like it.
