1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (946+ words) In the early 1980s, older Californians often arrived at counseling offices carrying shoeboxes. Inside were Medicare forms, reimbursement checks, doctor bills, insurance statements and handwritten notes. They’d spent months sorting through the paperwork, trying to figure out what they owed, who…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (835+ words) Mark Vantrease regularly sees his Vietnam War buddies over breakfast, attends his grandchildren’s Little League games, and, when he’s up to it, tends to his lush front-yard garden, which is dotted with shells retrieved from his abalone-diving days. Time is…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1721+ words) A windowless warehouse on the outskirts of Davis shelters pieces of California’s forests. Icy air swirls and fogs around 42,000 pounds of seeds — the past and the future of these trees, frozen in cardboard boxes. It smells like the woods on…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (979+ words) On Nov. 3, Californians will vote on 14 statewide ballot measures on environment, taxation, election, housing and healthcare. For months, interest groups sponsoring ballot initiatives spent heavily on ad blitzes and signature gathering to get on the ballot, but some agreed to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1762+ words) I first wanted to interview Lorena Gonzalez after watching her speak at the CalMatters Ideas Festival earlier this year. There, she joined veteran political columnist Dan Walters and Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen on a panel discussing the challenges facing…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1756+ words) We are in a short lull in the legislative battle between Big Tech and Big Labor over the impact of AI on jobs in California. But when lawmakers return in a few weeks, they will deal with a plethora of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (524+ words) For Dr. Torence Powell, becoming the next chancellor of the Los Rios Community College District is more than a career milestone — it’s a homecoming. Powell officially assumed his role July 1 as the district’s 10th chancellor, leading California’s second-largest community college system…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1428+ words) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana is taking aim at California’s Medicaid program for providing housing assistance, food, and other social services to high-need, low-income patients who tend to rack up big healthcare costs and, he argued, strain taxpayer…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (920+ words) Standing in a West Sacramento high school cafeteria in 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom promised fundamental reforms to the state’s job training programs. A few months later, he was in front of a fire truck in Modesto, and later, in a welding…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (437+ words) The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is restricting access to rehabilitative programming for incarcerated people as it clamps down on overtime spending before the end of its financial year. The rollback began earlier this month and will end June…...