by jpitney | Jul 27, 2025 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists
James Rainey at LAT: California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom jammed through a $322-billion budget last month. The biggest headline: Spending to provide healthcare for many undocumented immigrants went away. But there’s a nugget that you might have lost in the fine...
by jpitney | Jul 24, 2025 | California Politics, Higher Education
Mikhail Zinshteyn at CalMatters: California State University says it’s short $2.3 billion, a staggering budget gap that’s grown sharply since the system first revealed two years ago that it didn’t have the money to properly educate its students. How the nation’s...
by jpitney | Jul 20, 2025 | Budget, California Politics
Dan Walters at CalMatters: When Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders were drafting a more-or-less final 2025-26 state budget last month, they were closing what they described as a $12 billion deficit, a number that the state’s media repeatedly cited. It...
by jpitney | Jul 15, 2025 | California Politics, Public Opinion
Mark Z. Barabak: A recent UC Irvine poll found that residents, by a 2-to-1 margin, believe California is headed on the wrong track, a mood consistent with other gauges of Golden State grumpiness… A poll conducted by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental...
by jpitney | Jul 11, 2025 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Newspapers
From Muck Rack: In 2000, many Americans lived in a community with journalists — people whose job it was to cover school board decisions, announce small business openings and closures, root out corruption at city hall, warn commuters about road work and trumpet the...
by jpitney | Jul 4, 2025 | California Politics, Housing
Tobias Peter and Edward J. Pinto at AEI: In the 1970s, California had normal home prices—about on par with the rest of the nation. But since then, a toxic mix of ever-tightening environmental regulations, arcane zoning laws, and relentless NIMBY (Not in My Backyard)...
