As readers may recall, at the end of bills in the California Legislature, there may be “plus sections,” which are uncodified provisions that may do a number of things, such as expressing legislative ...

PODCAST: We're joined today by Dr. Shirley Weber, California's Secretary of State. Serving as the state's chief elections officer is a natural fit for Weber, whose family left Arkansas during the Jim ...

OPINION – California recently withdrew its EPA waiver request for its Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulation in anticipation of the Trump administration’s opposition. However, CARB need not abandon ...

When some Los Angeles area residents returned to homes that survived the wildfires, it felt like they were hit by an “invisible injury.” Their couches, rugs and even walls reeked. The emissions ...

OPINION – California’s refusal to fairly compensate prison labor is an affront to our most basic principles of human dignity – one that now has direct consequences on hundreds of incarcerated ...

OPINION – California recently withdrew its EPA waiver request for its Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulation in anticipation of the Trump administration’s opposition. However, CARB need not abandon ...

OPINION – California State Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, recently introduced a bill aimed at reining in pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the middlemen largely responsible for the dysfunction ...

Definitions can play an important role in legislation. Defining words or phrases is done to provide the reader of the legislative text with clear guidance regarding how those words or phrases are to ...

Adam Gray may very well owe his seat in Congress to a 2018 decision on an ACLU lawsuit over vote-by-mail ballots. In the rematch two years later, the former state assemblymember was down about 3,000 ...

In the California Legislature, there are several types of amendments that can be made to measures, including bills, resolutions and constitutional amendments. To begin, an amendment is defined by ...

A wave of life-threatening air pollution is now being reported widely as refugees from the devastating fires in Los Angeles return to what is left of their homes. Research being funded by the ...