2025年1月6日 · “This is a huge access-to-justice crisis,” said Jennafer Wagner, director of programs at the Family Violence Appellate Project, or FVAP, which filed the petition with Bay Area Legal Aid.. FVAP and Bay Area Legal Aid attribute the crisis to a shortage of court reporters in the state as well as a part of the Government Code, Section 69957, which limits the kind of cases that can be audio ...

CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: Cecilia Aguiar-Curry represents California’s 4th Assembly District, which includes Napa, Lake, Yolo, Colusa Counties and part of Sonoma County.She is the chair of the bipartisan California Legislative Women’s Caucus and is also the Assembly Majority Leader. She sat down with hosts Rich Ehisen and Tim Foster to talk about finding common ground with her Republican ...

2024年11月15日 · California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called a special session of the Legislature for Dec. 2nd to "safeguard California values" against perceived threat from another Trump administration. Today's edition of the Micheli Files has all …

2025年1月10日 · Editor’s Note: This is corrected from an earlier edition of the Micheli Files. With Governor Gavin Newsom proposing two new state agencies (both a new Consumer Protection Agency and a Housing and Homelessness Agency) to be created as part of the 2025-26 budget, I thought it would be helpful to take a look at how a Governor’s Reorganization Plan …

Each year since 2009, Capitol Weekly has published an annual list of the one hundred most powerful movers and shakers in California politics and public policy: The Top 100. We don’t include elected officials. Instead, we look at those who devote their professional lives to fighting for – or against – issues of state politics

2025年1月8日 · As Governor Newsom prepares his 2025 budget release this week, California’s Neurodegenerative disease groups representing hundreds of thousands of Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, ALS, and Huntington’s patients, are hopeful that he includes funding to continue the state’s research registries since they run out of money this fiscal year.

2025年1月3日 · New Year’s resolutions are a staple for many folks, a way to establish goals for themselves they believe will make their lives better. With that in mind, we posed this question to our panel of Capitol observers: What one resolution would you suggest to lawmakers for 2025?

2025年1月2日 · OPINION – Its long-held “green” reputation notwithstanding, California was not destined to be the catalyst for the sustainable energy boom at the beginning of the 21 st century, despite Gov. Jerry Brown’s embrace of renewable resources and energy efficiency in the latter half of the 1970s and early 1980s.. Indeed, in 1996 Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and the state legislature rejected ...

In just a few months, Capitol Weekly will unveil its 16th annual Top 100 list recognizing the most influential members of the Capitol community. As we began researching this year’s list, however, we realized that in all our years of the Top 100 we’ve never deeply explored a critical dynamic of Capitol clout: the Capitol power couple whose combined prominence and …

2024年11月4日 · Special interests spent the least amount of money during the first quarter of last year, more than $71 million, again according to figures updated after amended disclosures.. For the first seven quarters of the 2023-24 legislative cycle, special interests paid more than $550 million to lobbying firms, according to SoS disclosures analyzed during early November.