Support Grows for Bill That Would Legalize More Home Construction Across California
A new poll shows 74 percent of San Francisco residents are in favor of a state bill that would peel back local restrictions on housing.
A new poll shows 74 percent of San Francisco residents are in favor of a state bill that would peel back local restrictions on housing.
For most of the presidential candidate's political career, she was absolutely dead set against full legalization.
Specifics remain sparse, but universal healthcare will surely increase demand for medical services, and California's already low on nurses.
But she provided very little evidence to back up her claims.
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt delivers the L.P.'s prebuttal to tonight's SOTU, while the L.A. Times asks whether Hewitt can "make a fringe party mainstream."
Adrian Burrell was well within his rights to record the officer.
Government planners do not understand markets, so they promote overly pricey projects that fail to meet our real-world transportation needs.
How much power does the state of California have to force NIMBY localities to build more housing?
The reduction will not be enough to displace the black market.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
A newly passed police transparency bill is under attack across the state. The latest tactic: insisting it's not retroactive.
A well-intentioned plan is one of the worst ideas in the governor's new budget given the real-world effect it will have on California students.
How a heavily subsidized Culver City development became the nation's most expensive affordable housing project.
The California senator's terrible record on policy extends to infrastructure.
The LAUSD has seen a 16 percent jump in administrative staffers since 2004-and per pupil spending has been marching steadily upwards.
California's fiscal foundation is built on rock, says Gov. Gavin Newsom, but it's really more like sand.
Industry representatives succeed in forcing a referendum on reforms passed by lawmakers.
Two unions called out for threats to sue if they don't get hired to build.
All this anger about immigration (and a lack of sympathy for the poor people coming here) is not only cruel, but politically foolish.
A new year brings new transparency, and new lawsuits to try to limit it.
A new bill would fine businesses up to $300 for giving customers unsolicited paper receipts.
The California senator's plan to create a new refundable tax credit is bad policy, but it says a lot about her politics heading into 2020.
The market's performance is falling far short of predictions.
Making sense of the complicated and contradictory legacy of California Gov. Jerry Brown.
The suspect's previous DUI arrests didn't even put him on ICE's radar.
New Luddites have used the courts and the legislative process to throw that figurative wrench in the machine.
The punishment would certainly not fit the crime.
Two brothers were arrested at a Giants-49ers game after cursing out and flipping off the Giants players. Now they're suing.
A federal lawsuit says the state is violating the Second Amendment by refusing to recognize the restoration of firearm rights by courts in other states.
Winning candidates need to offer practical approaches that are appropriate for the offices they are seeking. Jeff Hewitt did exactly that.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Equal Justice Society, and others are challenging the practice in court.
Thanks to an anti-Trump wave that crashed across California in the midterm elections, Democrats will now have legislative supermajorities.
Although they might not have the legal power to tax texts at all.
Given only two candidates from the same party, millions just don't choose at all.
The L.P.'s biggest 2018 winner wants to tackle California's public sector pension crisis head-on
Conservatives and moderates don't agree on much, but they do agree on this: The state GOP is dead in the water and needs a new strategy to revive itself.
California's local officials are always in favor of more housing in general, but rarely support the individual projects that come before them.
Senate Bill 50 would override restrictive local zoning laws to allow more housing construction near transit.
Lyndsey and Sharon Ballinger's lawsuit claims that Oakland's Uniform Relocation Ordinance is unconstitutional.
Numerous motorists say rogue cops in a small Northern California town ripped them off during bogus traffic stops.
Neighborhood groups had sued to stop Musk's Boring Company from digging a tunnel underneath wealthy neighborhoods in West Los Angeles.
By careening towards populism, the GOP handed over to the Democrats modern, growing, diverse and prosperous suburbs such as Orange County.
A law signed in August will eliminate cash bail entirely in the Golden State, and quite a few jobs in the process.