In talking with both houses’ budget committee staff over the past few weeks, there are some practical tips that were shared ...

Dana Williamson, Gov. Newsom's former Chief of Staff, who stepped down in December last year, was indicted by federal ...

Lawmakers are away, but all sorts of things are still happening in California's Capitol community...even here at Capitol ...

OPINION - For millions of Californians living with disabilities, the promise of independence has too often been undermined by high costs, limited resources, and outdated support systems. From barriers ...

OPINION - Wildfires continue to devastate communities, while Californians pay the third-highest electricity rates in the ...

OPINION - Too many of our boys are dying—by suicide, by violence, by slow disconnection. This summer, Governor Newsom issued ...

OPINION - No matter how Californians vote on Prop 50, one truth remains: our democracy is broken, and duct-taping over the ...

After a lightning speed rollout and campaign, Proposition 50 passed decisively last week, with voters approving a partisan ...

During his recent review of the more than 900 bills sent to the desk of Gov. Gavin Newsom, intrepid McGeorge law professor, ...

For Lourdes Ayon, lobbyist by day and a comedian by night, “the policy brain and the comedy brain are totally different.” She ...

Special interests, AKA “lobbyist employers” as the California Secretary of State calls them, paid lobbying firms more than ...

OPINION - This summer, California overtook Japan to become the fourth largest economy in the world.  Our state’s economic ...