By Jacob Mull, especially for CalMatters This comment was originally posted by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Guest Comment written by People all over the world come to visit the arid and bleak Mojave Desert to look at the…

from Maya S. MillerCalMatters Secretary of Elections Frances Jackson organizes open mail-in ballots at the Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections Office in Sacramento on June 2, 2026. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters This story was originally published by…

By Kaci Patterson, especially for CalMatters This comment was originally posted by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Guest Comment written by June is both a mirror and a question, reflecting the unfinished promises of the past and demanding answers…

from Dan WaltersCalMatters This comment was originally posted by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. There are three constant aspects of economic life in California today. No. 1, Californians face the highest cost of living in the nation. That’s 11…

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from Ana B. IbarraCalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Lawmakers this week approved a health tax bill designed to continue critical federal funding for the state’s Medicaid program, also known as Medi-Cal. Their…

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By Priscilla Preciado, especially for CalMatters This comment was originally posted by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Guest Comment written by More than 30 years ago, my father, then a 21-year-old Chicano, was driving to a 7-Eleven in Tustin,…

from Adam EchelmanCalMatters An instrument intern performs a maintenance check on a temperature sensor while being trained by an instrument technician at a Contra Costa Water District pumping plant at the Antioch Service Center in Oakley on Jan. 30, 2024.…