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California’s Election System Is a Disgrace
As the Los Angeles mayoral race shows, the Golden State must deal with serious systemic defects. Source link
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California's gas prices push Uber and Lyft drivers off the road
The highest gas prices in the country are making it tougher for some gig drivers to make a living. Gas prices have shot up amid the war in…
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This Long Beach startup says it has a patch for California's power problems
Many companies in California struggle to get enough electricity to power their growing businesses. One Long Beach startup just raised $26…
Business
Consumers aren’t clicking the PayPal button. It's a big problem for California’s fintech pioneer
PayPal, once the cutting-edge trailblazer of digital payments, is struggling to cash in on consumer clicks like it used to. The San José…
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Hundreds of applications, no jobs and AI competition: California's brutal tech work landscape
Laid-off tech worker Joseph Tinner has spent almost a year hunting for a job. It has been a depressing crash course on the sea change in…
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Billionaires Spielberg, Zuckerberg eyeing East Coast, stirring concerns about California's wealth-tax proposal
California may be losing two of the state’s most famed residents and generous political donors. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg recently moved…
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Supreme Court Lets California’s New Map Stand in Blow to Trump
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday to allow California to use a newly drawn congressional map that could earn Democrats as many as five…
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Can California’s Improved, $750M Incentive Really Revive Production in the Golden State?
For the most part, Nikki Glaser was plugged into the zeitgeist with her Golden Globe Awards monologue earlier this month. She was funny,…
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Explaining California's billionaire tax: The proposals, the backlash and the exodus
The battle over a new tax on California’s billionaires is set to heat up in the coming months as citizens spar over whether the state…
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What to Do with California’s Billionaire Tax Proceeds
A health-care union’s ‘one-time fix’ for federal Medicaid cuts could easily become permanent. Source link
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Commentary: California's first partner pushes to regulate AI while Trump and tech bros thunder forward
California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom recently convened a meeting that might rank among the top sweat-inducing nightmare…
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Newsome 2028? California’s governor reveals he’ll consider a presidential run
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a leading Democratic critic of President Donald Trump, says he will consider running for the White House in…
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California’s New Class Divide
The Golden State’s ‘social justice’ politics have created a low-income, low-mobility underclass. Source link
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After an oil spill, Trump officials back a Texas firm to expand drilling off California’s coast
When the corroded pipeline burst in 2015, inky crude spread along the Southern California coast, becoming the state’s worst oil spill in…
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Trump administration to redistribute $2.4 billion from California’s high-speed railroad
The Trump administration wants to redistribute $2.4 billion it pulled from California’s high-speed rail project as part of a new $5…
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California's Punjabi truckers say they’re being harassed after deadly Florida wreck
For 15 years, Sumit Singh has hauled freight to and from Los Angeles ports and across the country. For the first time, though, the Punjabi…
Business
Justice Department to investigate employment practices at California’s EPA
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday said it had opened an investigation into employment practices at California’s Environmental…
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Gavin Newsom, Climate Warrior, Flinches as California’s War Against Oil Produces a Crisis
He now finds himself pleading with the beleaguered and vilified industry not to abandon the state. Source link
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New Law Increases California's Auto Insurance Minimums
A new law has been enacted in California that significantly raises the requirements for auto insurance minimums for drivers. This change…
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California’s High-Speed Rail to Nowhere
There was no reason for the feds to pour good money after bad supporting a preposterous project that doesn’t have any national…
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California’s High-Speed Boondoggle
The Trump administration’s move to cut off federal funding for the doomed rail project is well justified. Source link
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The Download: California’s AI power plans, and and why it’s so hard to make welfare AI fair
California's statewide power grid operator is poised to become the first in North America to deploy artificial intelligence to manage…
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Six Flags says no final decision on the closure of California’s Great America has been made—yet
Good night, Great America? Amusement park operator Six Flags Entertainment Corporation may close its Santa Clara, California-based Great…
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Trump’s anti-EV rules aren’t stopping California’s electric truck boom—yet
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Wes Lowe uses so much Claritin that he started…