California’s latest budget cut $5.5 million for K-12 school libraries. That money pays online fees for student research materials.
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Transgender athletes still protected in California under Supreme Court ruling
The ruling allows states to ban transgender student athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s teams, but doesn’t require it. States like California can keep their current policies.
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California to share driver’s license data despite fears it could expose unauthorized immigrants
The new state budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed includes $55 million for the DMV to build a data-sharing system, a program meant to bring the state into compliance with the federal REAL ID law.
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Newsom’s parting gift: A budget that delays California’s deep cuts to 2027
Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers reached a final budget deal last week that largely relies on AI revenue projections and new taxes to delay social service cuts and shrink future deficits.
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Tech billionaires hire Democratic dealmakers in renewed push to build a Bay Area city
Following years of local resistance, tech billionaires are turning to the state to fast-track their plan to build a new city in the Bay Area. They are lobbying for legislation to expedite environmental review of their project, enlisting political heavyweights to make their case.
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A $28 minimum age for California construction workers is dead — killed by construction workers
A plan to set a $28 minimum wage for certain California homebuilders died when the influential trades union protested that it could undermine prevailing wage pay rates.
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Billionaire tax, affordable housing: See the measures on California’s November ballot
California voters will decide on 14 statewide policy proposals come November, including the high-stakes billionaire tax, an $11 billion affordable housing bond and voter ID requirements.
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California extended a lifeline to some of its aging mobile home parks. What happened next?
In 2023, the Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization was given a new name, a new focus and millions more to spend revitalizing California’s most overlooked source of affordable housing. Three years later, the results are starting to come in.
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HOA fees skyrocketing? A California bill could cap them, but Democrats are divided
Some Democrats are divided over a bill that would cap how much homeowners associations can raise fees each year.
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Trump renews push to shift homelessness funding. What’s at stake
The Trump administration wants to shift more money to homeless shelters that require sobriety, a change that would disrupt California’s “housing first” policies and threaten to put nearly 15,000 Californians back on the street.
