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San Francisco, home to OpenAI and Anthropic, is seeing its housing market boom as AI employees put their money into the housing market. In Seattle, economic jitters in the tech space are dampening homebuying demand.  San Francisco and Seattle are two of America’s leading tech hubs, and for years, their housing markets have behaved like…

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new carbon market rules threatened climate funding for water, air and transit projects. A last-minute compromise between him and lawmakers provides some funding to narrow that gap.

The lame-duck governor’s penchant for pushing last-minute demands on California’s Legislature didn’t work out as it has in years past.

An analysis of defense contracts charts the rise of defense spending — often in heavily Democratic districts

For years, significant environmental policies under the Newsom administration have been decided behind closed doors, diminishing the public’s role in key state decisions.

Having a union-dominated school board has not stemmed the tide of red ink in the Sacramento City Unified district.

With four months left of his last term, state lawmakers handed Gov. Gavin Newsom a string of losses at the end of session, including the rejection of Newsom’s proposal to minimize utilities’ liability for the wildfires they cause, writes CalMatters’ Maya C. Miller. The Assembly killed a contentious bill Tuesday that would have given wildfire…

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