There are numerous types of bills introduced in the California Legislature each year, and an equal number of rules for how and when they are presented. In this week's Micheli Files, lobbyist and law ...

Jesse Arreguín became Berkeley’s mayor just as Donald Trump first took the White House. Now, as the Democrat enters the ...

When some Los Angeles area residents returned to homes that survived the wildfires, it felt like they were hit by an “invisible injury.” Their couches, rugs and even walls reeked. The emissions ...

In the California Legislature, there are several types of amendments that can be made to measures, including bills, resolutions and constitutional amendments. To begin, an amendment is defined by ...

OPINION – California’s refusal to fairly compensate prison labor is an affront to our most basic principles of human dignity – one that now has direct consequences on hundreds of incarcerated ...

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As readers may recall, at the end of bills in the California Legislature, there may be “plus sections,” which are uncodified provisions that may do a number of things, such as expressing legislative ...

Cecilia Aguiar-Curry’s rise to Assembly Majority Leader and chair of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus comes at a historic moment for the state. A record 58 women are serving in the state’s ...

Adam Gray may very well owe his seat in Congress to a 2018 decision on an ACLU lawsuit over vote-by-mail ballots. In the rematch two years later, the former state assemblymember was down about 3,000 ...

OPINION – California recently withdrew its EPA waiver request for its Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulation in anticipation of the Trump administration’s opposition. However, CARB need not abandon ...

OPINION – California State Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, recently introduced a bill aimed at reining in pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the middlemen largely responsible for the dysfunction ...

OPINION – California is right to be proud of its decades of environmental leadership. The state’s commitment to carbon management is unequalled in the U.S. While addressing climate change requires ...