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Your nonprofit & nonpartisan state newsroom dedicated to explaining how government impacts our lives.
California, USA
Joined November 2014
President Trump signed an executive order today to discourage state governments from regulating artificial intelligence and urge Congress to pass a law preempting such regulations. The order is likely to hit hardest in CA: https://t.co/oj5wjQNEkz 📸 Chip Somodevilla, Getty
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A new poll shared exclusively with CalMatters adds to a slate of recent surveys suggesting Californians’ support is waning for Trump’s harshest immigration enforcement policies. https://t.co/QYRGSq3fsO 📸 Pedro Rios
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The Diablo Canyon Power Plant will be required to 4,000 acres of surrounding land to mitigate environmental damage caused by its continued operations. https://t.co/J4S6rLTY6m 📸 Michael A. Mariant, AP
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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to end its National Guard deployment in Los Angeles, calling the president's arguments "profoundly un-American.'
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Colin Campbell dedicated himself to passing the DUI bill after both of his children were killed by a repeat drunk driver. “Our lives were destroyed that night. If these people's children had been killed by a drunk driver, there is no way they would be objecting to this.” 9/9
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California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the nation. Here, DUI-related deaths have been rising more than twice as fast as the rest of the country. But this fall, a state bill to strengthen DUI penalties was gutted at the last minute. https://t.co/7sVxpMPsDO 8/9
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As alcohol-related roadway deaths spike across the state, a CalMatters investigation finds California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the country.
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Speeding is one of the biggest causes of fatal crashes. For two years in a row, bills that would have required the use of speed-limiting technology on vehicles have failed. Newsom vetoed one of them. 7/9
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The DMV has wide latitude to take dangerous drivers off the road. But it routinely allows drivers with extreme histories of dangerous driving to continue to operate on our roadways, where many go on to kill. https://t.co/7PhYbyKaG3 6/9
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The California DMV routinely allows deadly drivers to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found.
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This is Steve Gordon. Gov. Gavin Newsom chose him to run the state Department of Motor Vehicles in 2019. He’s refused to talk to us for this story. 📸 Rich Pedroncelli, AP 5/9
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In their latest installment, Robert Lewis and Lauren Hepler show that the officials with the power to do something about it — @CAgovernor, legislators, the courts, the Department of Motor Vehicles (@CA_DMV) — have failed to act. https://t.co/c2TZNqQqbr 4/9
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As driving deaths have skyrocketed across the state, the governor, legislators, the courts and the DMV have failed to act.
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As our ongoing investigation, License to Kill, has shown, time and again the deadly car crashes were caused by repeat drunk drivers, chronic speeders and motorists with well-documented histories of recklessness behind the wheel. https://t.co/WoA3gEXp8L 3/9
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Our ongoing investigation examines how California routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to operate on our roadways.
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Over the next three hours, legislators asked instead about homeless encampments along roadways, gas tax revenue and planning for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. It was the first informational hearing they’d held on the transportation system in more than a decade. 2/9
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Earlier this year, the director of CalTrans presented this chart to members of the state Senate’s Transportation Committee, showing a dramatic rise in deaths on California's roads. No lawmakers asked about the chart. Or what CalTrans was doing about it. 1/9
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After a year of effort — and despite ICE’s military theatrics — L.A.’s iconic MacArthur Park is just beginning to regain some of its mojo. It still struggles with drugs and homelessness, though.
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Like today, Americans in the 1930s were reeling from economic hard times. Leaders made Latinos scapegoats and deported immigrants and some US citizens.
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Trump pushed changes at the Central Valley Project — a set of reservoirs and canals supplying water to Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys — pleasing farm groups.
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CA cities pay far more for water on average than districts that supply farms — with some urban water agencies shelling out more than $2,500 per acre-foot of surface water, and some irrigation districts paying nothing. https://t.co/zqSJRvCRVR 📝 @RA_Becks 📸 David McNew, Getty
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State and local lawmakers have hastened to make it easier, quicker and cheaper to rebuild after the L.A. fires — with a glaring exception. https://t.co/6V5ovUHAO9 📸 Jules Hotz
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When Medicare payments to physicians fall behind the rate of inflation, everyone feels the strain. Learn how these cuts affect you.
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Water costs are confusing — even for the experts. A new study shows huge differences in what cities and farm water districts pay for supplies from rivers and reservoirs in California, Arizona, and Nevada.
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AI’s planned data-center boom is straining California’s grid forecasts and raising fears that customers could pay for upgrades if projects never materialize. https://t.co/bVsV7RKgRm
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