When the first forty-niners began to trickle into California in search of gold, the Central Valley was a fertile expanse of grasslands and marshes home…
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Welp. That was over quickly. Within an hour of the polls closing at 8 PM PT on September 14, the recall race was already called…
One night in late November, as Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday season were right around the corner, I logged onto Twitter to catch…
On the first of February, 79 top energy experts signed an open letter to Governor Gavin Newsom, urging him to halt the decommission of the…
As Rams Defensive Tackle Aaron Donald came barreling through the line, Bengals Quarterback Joe Burrow threw a desperation heave to a receiver near the first…
California has been using a universal and inevitable fact of life as a form of punishment – death. The penalty may be seeing its final…
Kevin McCarthy holding the Speaker’s Gavel on January 20, 2023, would be an unprecedented threat to American democracy. If Republicans reclaim control of the House…
Labor unions are currently under attack. An increasingly hostile Supreme Court and a multitude of anti-labor laws across the nation have put labor unions in…
On Tuesday, September 21, 2021, Oakland’s city council approved the implementation of a fifth police academy. This decision came after the city experienced its 100th…
The California Exodus Myth If you have lived in California for very long, you have heard the myth. By all accounts, high income and corporate…
With Kamala Harris as our new Vice President, California’s constituents were fervently waiting to see who Governor Gavin Newsom would choose to fill Harris’ seat…
Finally, after a very long debate and after countless revisions, California’s Board of Education approved an ethnic studies curriculum for California high schools. The vote…
On March 16, 2021, a tragedy occurred for the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, as they were the target of a deadly hate crime.…
Recall attempts are nothing new to California politics. Since 1913, 55 attempts have been made to remove the governor from office, but only once, in…
The classic postcard image of beautiful wide, sandy beaches in California is under threat by climate change. Climate change is irrevocably changing the California coastline…
In recent years, the world has been focusing its collective policy making efforts towards combating climate change. This is largely because scientists tell us that…
In April of 1969, the University of California purchased the site that is now People’s Park. Located just blocks away from the University of…
Though the 2020 election was just months ago, candidates are already gearing up for the 2022 midterm elections. This is especially true for California, where…