Nov 5, 2024 · Prop. 2, passed and Prop. 4, passed: The two bond measures, approved by voters, will allow the state to borrow $10 billion to repair K-12 schools and community colleges, and $10 billion to address climate change in a variety of areas including drinking water improvements and extreme heat and wildfire programs. Recent polling showing the climate bond likely to pass while the school repairs bond ...

Nov 5, 2024 · Lea esta historia en Español. Californians today rejected a rent control ballot measure that inspired more than $150 million in campaign spending and laid bare competing visions of how to respond to the state’s housing crisis.. Proposition 33, which 62% of voters opposed in vote totals this morning, would have given cities more freedom to limit how much landlords can raise rent.

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Nov 18, 2024 · The Democratic supermajority in the California Capitol, however, has spent the past several years passing laws to stymie future conservative administrations on health care, said Mia Bonta, chairperson of the Assembly health committee and a Democrat from Oakland.. Legislators have protected insurance coverage of abortion and transgender care. They have expanded health insurance programs to low ...

Nov 25, 2024 · Chanthon Bun in the living room of his home in San Leandro on Nov. 23, 2024. Bun was born in Cambodia during the genocide in the 1970s and grew up in a refugee camp in Thailand before moving to the United States, where he was convicted of robbery at age 18.

San Diego County’s action faced immediate pushback, with the county’s top law enforcement official, Sheriff Kelly Martinez, saying she would not follow the new policy and would continue allowing immigration authorities access to the jail inmates. American First Legal Foundation sent its letter to the chair of San Diego County’s Board of Supervisors, Nora Vargas, who stepped down from her ...

Oct 15, 2024 · California is an expensive place to call home. It’s such a fundamental part of California life it almost feels silly to say. Along with good weather, sunny beaches, Hollywood and the Golden Gate Bridge, the skyhigh cost of housing has become part of …

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Dec 17, 2024 · A man stands in the middle of a street at the Seminole Springs mobile home park in Malibu Lake in Los Angeles after the Woolsey Fire roared through the community, on Nov. 10, 2018.

Dec 4, 2024 · On top of the fraud complaints, a report released Monday by the Legislative Analyst’s Office warns that lawmakers are failing to address a bigger unemployment problem: a “broken” financial model, one that threatens the whole system.. California’s unemployment fund is still $20 billion in debt to the federal government after the state took out loans to cover pandemic benefits, costing ...