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The fires that scorched Southern California last month were the opposite of a “natural” disaster. They were driven by the ...

California's official rulemaking process is, to say the last, incredibly complex. In this second of a two-part Micheli Files, ...

OPINION - A new California Mobility Index (CMI) ranking the state’s four-year institutions did more than highlight the importance of the California State University (CSU) system to low- and ...

Just days after three major Jewish organizations announced that an Orange County school district had agreed to settle a ...

Capitol Weekly held its first conference of 2025, and the only one of four this year held online. Throughout three panels and ...

In the California Constitution, it sets forth the method of enacting new laws, or statutes, in this state. That lawmaking power is shared between the Legislature and the People (through the initiative ...

What is a “constitutional amendment”? Although California’s Constitution provides for the amendment of this document, our state Constitution does not define this term. A traditional definition of a ...

Which types of bills take effect immediately upon being signed by the Governor? Statutes calling elections, statutes providing for tax levies or appropriations for the usual current expenses of the ...

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