Reducing drug penalties likely increased homelessness in California, new report says
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When Californians voted to reduce drug penalties in 2014, it likely had the unintended consequence of also increasing homelessness in the state, according to a new report. The report, released Thursday by the Public Policy Institute of California, set out to measure the […]
Culture and ethics meets tech: UCLA debuts country’s first bachelor’s in digital humanities
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. UCLA is launching the nation’s first digital humanities department and bachelor’s degree this fall. The new discipline combines classical humanities with technical know-how to examine a digitized and increasingly AI-enhanced world. The major fuses technological tools for statistical analysis, coding, 3D mapping and…
Can California help lower the cost of GLP-1s? Here’s what lawmakers are proposing
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Laura Richardson pays $450 a month out of pocket for a drug that could keep her off insulin for the rest of her life. She’s a California state senator — and even she can’t get her own insurance to cover it. Richardson started…
Newsom pushes environmental carve-out for campaign donor’s Santa Monica project
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing for an eleventh-hour legislative proposal that would give an environmental carve-out to a Santa Monica developer who is a Newsom appointee to state commissions and longtime donor. The draft proposal, obtained by CalMatters, would effectively exempt a mixed-use…
California sues to block Trump’s mail-in voting rules just days after loss at Supreme Court
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just days after…
Parents of transgender kids say California is ‘unprepared’ as feds cut off their healthcare
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When A.W.’s husband lost his job, she was thankful the safety net preserved…
Federal wildfire crews are stretched thin. California is stepping in to help
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s last working nuclear power plant sits cradled in a landscape that would…
