Ben Christopher
CalMatters-
California voted to bar immigrants from schools and social services in 1994. Now most Californians see immigrants as a benefit to the state. -
Department of Justice lawyers representing the Trump administration returned to court today to repeat their maximalist argument that the president has the authority to commandeer state National Guards troops and that judges have no authority to second guess him. -
California lawmakers are considering a bill that would pause updates to state housing standards. Is the building code to blame for California’s housing crisis? -
In the recurring legislative fight between YIMBY legislators and defenders of California’s signature environmental law, one bill could be a final legislative showdown. -
CalFire released its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps. Different colors come with different rules. -
A passel of recent California laws were supposed to supercharge the construction of desperately needed housing. According to YIMBY Law, they haven’t even come close. -
Scrambling to respond to the Trump administration’s late Monday night directive to pause a wide, but as-yet-unspecified, swath of federal spending programs, California’s Democratic elected officials and agency heads offered two consistent responses today: -
California sued Donald Trump 123 times during his first presidency. Trump lost about two-thirds of cases filed against his administration, but that doesn’t guarantee the same results this time around. -
LA fires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis. -
Is she on track to be the first Democratic president from California? Here are nine ways that California shaped Kamala Harris and that Harris has shaped California. -
In three rulings the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a body blow to the federal bureaucracy. From healthcare to climate to workers’ rights, California’s rules often go farther. -
The California Public Utilities Commission will consider on May 9 a new proposal that would change how Californians pay for electricity.
