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Jane Kim, backed by Bernie Sanders, could ride the progressive wave. Ben Allen has the CA Democratic party’s endorsement for the insurance commissioner job.

CalEnviroScreen 5.0 dropped key SF neighborhoods from top pollution rankings.

Lawyers for a former Los Angeles homeowner find AI-generated “hallucinations” in filings by State Farm.

Proposition 3 is not about whether education and healthcare matter, an anti-tax advocate argues, but whether it is good policy to permanently extend tax hikes that voters were promised would expire.

In some congressional races and key ballot issues, California Democrats’ left-leaning wing and its more centrist forces are clashing.

Proposition 3 doesn’t raise taxes on anyone, a cafeteria manager argues. It avoids a tax cut for the top 2% of earners by sustaining rates voters first backed in 2012 to aid schools.

California is closing prisons because it’s incarcerating fewer people. Several towns with shuttered prisons now are struggling to lure new employers.

About 15 years ago, the former prison towns of Blythe and Susanville were getting by relatively well. Many of towns’ residents were steadily employed by the state, and their good wages and benefits helped fuel the local, albeit isolated, economies. But after changes in California’s criminal sentencing laws led to fewer people being incarcerated —…

Immigrant detention centers are receiving high marks for health and safety under the Trump administration, according to a new investigation by the Project on Government Oversight.

Demand is strong, supply is narrowing and rent growth is on the rise — even as nearly 2 in 5 listings still offer a concession. The post Rents Reach $1,962, Rising at the Fastest Pace in Over a Year (July Rent Report) appeared first on Zillow Research.