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CA created an agency to stop conservatorship abuses. It has 1 employee
1+ hour, 18+ min ago (828+ words) Join us at the Cal Matters Ideas Festival on May 21. " Get your tickets now. Last month, Cal Matters exposed how a fiduciary in Ventura County directed $2. 7 million from her elderly clients to her husband's health care company. A judge has…...
Opinion | California should halt its boom-and-bust budgeting and boost reserves instead
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (706+ words) Join us at the Cal Matters Ideas Festival on May 21. " Get your tickets now. Pete Weber is a New California Coalition board member and cofounder of its Hartland chapter. Chris Thornberg a New California Coalition board member and a founding…...
Trump broke the law by sending National Guard to L. A. , federal judge rules
7+ mon, 6+ day ago (566+ words) Join us at the Cal Matters Ideas Festival on May 21. " Get your tickets now. A 19th Century law called the Posse Comitatus Act defines what the military can do on U. S. soil. President Trump broke that law by sending the National Guard…...
Police bring charges against Fresno man who helped students protest ICE, but DA drops case
18+ hour, 50+ min ago (369+ words) Join us at the Cal Matters Ideas Festival on May 21. " Get your tickets now. A central California police department this week filed criminal charges against a man who helped escort student protesters during a protest against the Trump administration's immigration…...
A jet fuel subsidy could tap funds meant for California roads
20+ hour, 46+ min ago (1719+ words) Join us at the Cal Matters Ideas Festival on May 21. " Get your tickets now. Gov. Gavin Newsom is advancing a plan that could funnel hundreds of millions in road dollars to a struggling oil refinery " pitching it as a cleaner…...
CA lawmakers consider making parole harder for some prisoners
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (617+ words) Join us at the Cal Matters Ideas Festival on May 21. " Get your tickets now. In a rare showing of bipartisanship, Republicans in the Assembly's public safety committee are backing a tough-on-crime bill authored by a Democrat. Criminal justice groups, including…...
Opinion | Candidates for CA governor are playing it safe. Gen Z voters can't afford that.
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (924+ words) Join us at the Cal Matters Ideas Festival on May 21. " Get your tickets now. Andrea Escobar is pursuing a masters in public policy at UCLA and is a senior fellow at Unseen. Joselen Contreras is an an undergraduate public health…...
Opinion | Battles over business regulation resume in California's Capitol
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (642+ words) Join us at the Cal Matters Ideas Festival on May 21. " Get your tickets now. A nearly two-hour hearing in the Assembly Judiciary Committee Tuesday encapsulated the Capitol's longest-running conflict " going at least a half-century and still counting. It pits the…...
Opinion | He lost his home in the Palisades fire. Now he's running to "fix the broken system'
22+ hour, 10+ min ago (428+ words) Join us at the Cal Matters Ideas Festival on May 21. " Get your tickets now. Merritt Farren, a Republican, is running for Insurance Commissioner. He is an attorney, an advocate and a former executive at Amazon and Disney. More than a…...
Cal Matters, Evident Media and Bellingcat documentary nominated for Emmy award
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (401+ words) Join us at the Cal Matters Ideas Festival on May 21. " Get your tickets now. The documentary, "Operation Return to Sender," investigated the immigration forces carrying out the first raids of the mass deportation campaign. Cal Matters, Evident Media and Bellingcat's…...