Should a California union dictate how clinics spend money? Employers sue to block ballot measure
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s billionaires are not the only ones fighting back against the state’s largest health workers union this election season. Now the clinics are too. The California Primary Care Association, which represents more than 2,300 community health clinics, and Open Door Community Health Centers […]
Estos son los candidatos a vicegobernador de California: ‘Un trabajo sobre nada’
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. Los candidatos a vicegobernador suelen aludir al carácter en gran medida simbólico y a menudo ignorado del cargo cuando hablan de sus ambiciones para ocupar dicho puesto a nivel estatal. Es cierto que…
A $7 cheeseburger reopened debate over bail in California. Here’s what the Supreme Court found
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The California Supreme Court held Thursday that judges should take someone’s financial circumstances into account when setting bail, a ruling that gives courts some flexibility to jail indigent defendants before trial. The case turned on a $7 cheeseburger purchased with another person’s credit…
Meet the candidates for California lieutenant governor: ‘A job about nothing’
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The candidates running for lieutenant governor are apt to hint at the post’s largely symbolic and overlooked status when discussing their ambitions for the statewide office. It’s true that California’s lieutenant governor is mostly a ceremonial position. Eleni Kounalakis, who currently holds the…
How the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling could affect California’s gerrymandered districts
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When California’s independent…
Oponentes atacan a Steyer y Becerra durante debate de candidatos a la gobernación de California
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. Seis de los…
Sham hospice schemes are bilking Medicare — and harming California seniors
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California has emerged as the epicenter of a sweeping hospice fraud crisis, one…
