Failed State Update: DMV

Robert Leiwis at CaMatters: Because California has no centralized court system and records aren’t online, we then traveled to courthouses up and down the state to read through tens of thousands of pages of files. Once we had defendants’ names and other information, we...

Failed State Update: Blown Deadline

Kristen Hwang at CalMatters: California voters told lawmakers last fall that they wanted doctors to get paid more to see low-income patients. But officials for the Newsom administration blew past a federal deadline to make that happen through Medi-Cal Monday,...

Failed State Update: Prisoners Who Murder

 Summer Lin at LAT: The family of a a woman who was strangled to death last year during a conjugal visit with her husband at a Northern California prison has called for reforms after a second woman was killed in a similar manner. Tania Thomas, 47, was killed in July...