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2024 Election: California Voter Guide - CalMatters
Your CalMatters 2024 Voter Guide is a team effort, made possible by the following: Reporters: Ben Christopher, Nigel Duara, Wendy Fry, Kristen Hwang, Carolyn Jones, Sameea Kamal, Marisa Kendall, Alexei Koseff, Jeanne Kuang, Alejandro Lazo, Shaanth Nanguneri, Jenna Peterson, Yue Stella Yu. Web producer: Liliana Michelena.
2024 California ballot measures: What you need to know
Jul 4, 2024 · Assemblymember Evan Low speaks with fellow lawmaker Phillip Chen at the Capitol on March 27, 2023. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters. By Ben Christopher. By 2014, California voters were sick of ballots larded up with too many measures, many of them highly technical, specific to one industry or difficult to understand. So state lawmakers changed the rules.
2024 California Ballot Propositions - CalMatters
In November, voters will determine the fate of 10 propositions — including whether to borrow a combined $20 billion for climate programs and school construction, whether to approve three amendments to the state constitution and what direction to take on crime, health care and taxes. The 2024 ballot is still more crowded than in 2022, when ...
Californians: Here’s why your housing costs are so high in 2024
Oct 15, 2024 · High home prices make wealth generation an ever-more exclusive pursuit. Expensive cities force more workers to commute, which means more driving, traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. “There’s no issue that impacts the state in more ways on more days than the issue of housing,” Gov. Gavin Newsom has said. “This is the original sin in ...
Why CA voters should reject the Prop. 4 climate bond | Opinion
Sep 10, 2024 · Commentary. Climate costs will only go up if California fails to act. Voters should back a $10 billion bond. While these programs may be worth pursuing, they shouldn’t be funded with long-term debt. Again, bonds should only be used for long-term investments, not temporary programs that will be gone before the debt is paid off.
California schools face absenteeism, declining enrollment | Opinion
Sep 12, 2024 · Their other numbers problem is the financial squeeze posed by declining enrollment, especially in large urban districts, compounded by apparently growing levels of chronic absenteeism, or truancy. “Thirty percent of California public school students were chronically absent from school in 2021-22 — a near tripling of the percentage in 2018 ...
CA governor's would-be successors multiply as term ends | Opinion
Jul 24, 2024 · As Newsom finishes his governorship, would-be successors are multiplying. by Dan Walters July 24, 2024. So far five Democrats and one Republican have said they're vying to become California's next governor in two years. Several more candidates are considering running. Photo of the governor's seal by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters.
CA minimum wage increase for health care workers to begin
Oct 2, 2024 · A minimum wage increase for California health care workers is finally kicking in. A minimum wage increase for California health care workers will begin in October 2024. It was supposed to kick in four months earlier, but lawmakers delayed it because of budget concerns. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local.
Kamala Harris can’t escape her CA record - CalMatters
Aug 22, 2024 · Photo by Mike Segar, Reuters. Speaker after speaker at the Democratic National Convention has praised Kamala Harris’ record in California. And when the vice president delivers the biggest speech of her life tonight, she’ll likely lean into her home state accomplishments, even though some voters may still be skittish about her California-ness.