California's licensing laws mean inmates can risk their lives for less than $2 per day, but can't earn a living after they get out of prison.
Gavin Newsom wants to build only the top half.
One union official told The Sacramento Bee that "education should not be a competitive endeavor." Because competition never improved anything, right?
The state has some of the nation's strictest firearm laws.
Prop 10 is dead, but support for rent control is alive and well in the Golden State.
Outcoming Gov. Jerry Brown was no gun rights advocate, but if Newsom's voting record is any indication, he's likely to be even worse.
Californians pay some of the highest gas taxes for some of the worst-maintained roads in the country.
Prop. 10 would give cities free reign to reimpose rent control.
Buying and consuming CBD is legal in California, but selling food or drinks infused with CBD isn't.
Since 2005, at least five police officers and four deputies have been arrested for sexual misconduct.
The winner gets to decide how much Californians will pay for property and casualty insurance.
Voters shouldn't be asked to make decisions about how much space a chicken needs in its cage.
Leaving The Bay Area is a real estate brokerage that helps people decamp for cheaper, greener pastures.
The new laws bring us closer to the state of affairs that existed before 2006, when a state Supreme Court decision slammed the door on police accountability.
The news network largely ignores the role of government restrictions on housing construction
A giant straw would actually pose fewer environmental risks than standard-sized varieties.
The war on plastic marches on.
The California Innocence Project helped free Horace Roberts from prison.
The agency and the anti-repeal coalition discussed events, social media posts, and congressional Republicans in vulnerable races.
The same day he lightly deregulated home cook, Gov. Jerry Brown signed an awful law targeting groups that feed people in need
Brown wasn't exactly a secret libertarian, but libertarians might end up missing him.
Santa Barbara's new proposal would fine repeat violators up to $250 for handing out prohibited plastic straws and stirrers.
No matter what California legislators or Elizabeth Warren think
Thanks to a weird loophole, CBD-infused cocktails might remain legal anyway.
Gov. Jerry Brown rolls back stupid restrictions on homemade foods, sidewalk vending, and craft distilleries.
The congressman does not have a good relationship with his local paper.
The Justice Department is suing to stop the state's restrictive new internet law.
His argument: If San Francisco lets people shoot up, they won't be able to order them into drug treatment through the courts.
California's new law is a legal mess.
Hundreds may see their sentences overturned or shortened.
Gov. Jerry Brown signs bills dramatically increasing transparency about law enforcement behavior.
A positive but marginal reform to the Golden State's byzantine housing regulations
It was the end of the world...until it wasn't.
The transit center will remain closed through the end of next week.
A ballot initiative planned for 2020 would let voters kill the overbudgeted, underfunded, behind-schedule monstrosity.
California in a nutshell: Laws that "feel good" but don't work pass. One that might actually help kids gets vetoed.
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. That goes double in California.
The Golden State has a year to implement a new pretrial system, and there's a fear it could lead to more detentions.
But the real problem here isn't human-trafficking troops, it's regulators raising crime panic.
The Trump administration's deportation push finally forced the Golden State to stop criminalizing everything.
It's a scare tactic, and an inaccurate one at that.
Lawsuit says California pension agency withholds crucial data.
Not only did Brian Esola make sure he wasn't violating the city code, he also checked with his neighbors beforehand.
Sen. Kamala Harris tried to limit the storefront speech of firearms sellers as California attorney general.
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