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CalWatchdog Morning Read – June 16

Auto voter law to add millions to electorate, diversifies Legislature doin’ budget work How to become a pot tycoon No more low- and zero-emission car subsidies What’s going on with Rep. Hunter’s campaign finances? Good morning! Welcome to Thursday. California’s

CalWatchdog Morning Read – June 15

CalWatchdog Staff June 15, 2016

Transparency duel Budget by midnight Welfare rule to be repealed Gun control advances Crisis looming for energy grid expansion? Lawmakers will consider two transparency bills today in an effort to head off a ballot measure that would go to greater

CalWatchdog Morning Read – June 14

CalWatchdog Staff June 14, 2016

Lawmakers look to increase gun restrictions, but will that work? Car tax increase Climate agenda going up in smoke? Lawmakers to redefine rape Gut and amend on ballot measures? Good morning and happy Tuesday! In the wake of the tragic

‘Gut and amend’ tactics OK for ballot measures?

Chris Reed June 13, 2016

Gov. Jerry Brown has gotten the go-ahead to put his revised criminal justice reform measure on the November ballot after a 6-1 California Supreme Court ruling last week. The original version focused on juvenile justice reforms. The new version would

CalWatchdog morning read — June 13

CalWatchdog Staff June 13, 2016

CalWatchdog Morning Read – June 13 By CALWATCHDOG STAFF CA Republicans diversifying What can be done about mass shootings? Tragedy averted in Santa Monica Recalling a judge is harder than it looks Daylight savings time in Legislature’s crosshairs Good

New scandal hits Oakland police, nearby agencies

Chris Reed June 13, 2016

Less than a month after San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr was forced out because of misconduct by his officers, a new police scandal has hit neighboring Oakland and other local law enforcement authorities as well. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf

Greens lead push to kill Gov. Brown’s housing measure

Chris Reed June 8, 2016

Gov. Jerry Brown’s ambitious plan to increase housing stock is off to a good start, but environmentalists are ramping up the pressure on Democrats in the state Legislature to either gut it or kill it. The governor’s plan, unveiled last

CA colleges’ responses vary in disputes over Israel

Chris Reed May 31, 2016

Over the past six weeks, UCLA, UC Irvine and San Diego State University have all been roiled by disputes over Israel and its treatment of Palestinians — and over how campus administrators have handled the fallout. At San Diego State

Defiant San Francisco police union rejects criticism

Chris Reed May 29, 2016

The abrupt May 19 resignation of San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr after police Sgt. Justin Erb shot and killed Jessica Williams, an unarmed African-American woman fleeing in a stolen car, drew national and international attention to the city’s Police

Bullet train’s unyielding new foe: Wealthy equestrians

Chris Reed May 29, 2016

When the California High-Speed Rail Authority surveyed the landscape and sought to determine the big obstacles to getting the state’s bullet-train project built, some foes were obvious: The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, which led the fight in 2008 against Proposition