By Dan Walters Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Financial support for the nearly 6 million students in California’s public schools is not only the largest chunk of the state budget, but for the past half-century it has been […]
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Imperial County Public Works Wins Award for Dogwood Bridge
By Calexico Chronicle CALEXICO — The Imperial County Public Works Department’s Dogwood Road Bridge Replacement Project has earned the 2024 ASCE San Diego Outstanding Structural Engineering Project Award, according to a county press release. Presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers San Diego Section, this accolade recognizes the department’s exceptional contribution to structural engineering […]
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Imperial’s Park After Dark ‘Glows’ with Community Pride
By Richard Montenegro Brown CARLOS DURAN VIDEO IMPERIAL — The city of Imperial’s second annual In the Park After Dark event took place Saturday, May 18, as scores of families and friends came out to Eager Park to celebrate the last major outdoor event in the city’s signature series until the summer’s end. The event […]
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How lawmakers decide CA budget
By Lynn La Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Lawmakers on the Assembly floor during session on May 16, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters This is CalMatters politics reporter Yue Stella Yu, subbing for Lynn, who will […]
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What drives California’s budget decisions? A lot of politics, not as much data
By Sameea Kamal Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Frustration came through loud and clear as legislators hurled question after question at the head of the state’s homelessness interagency council: Why, after years of planning and billions of dollars […]
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California has helped fund diaper banks for years. Families need that support to continue
By Hiram Rodriguez-Franco Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Guest Commentary written by Hiram Rodriguez-Franco Hiram Rodriguez-Franco is the diaper bank manager for Community Action Partnership of Orange County. Our government and its policies should reflect the values of […]
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Potential tough-on-crime ballot measure promises less homelessness. Experts aren’t convinced
By Marisa Kendall and Yue Stella Yu Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Homelessness gets top billing in a measure likely to make it onto your November ballot. Whether the measure has anything to do with homelessness is debatable. […]
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Why UC grad students are going out on strike
By Mikhail Zinshteyn Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University of […]
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In Defense of Increments
By Paul S. DiLorenzo The Lakota historian Joseph Marshall III said that “success is rarely the result of one fell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.” The notion of one day at a time never meant much to me, until it did. Get today right. Learn from your mistakes, as […]
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San Jose food hall has rocky start
By Robert Eliason People driving by San Jose’s Downtown Food Hall might be forgiven for thinking it’s closed. The dark interior seems to be housing abandoned equipment. Next to a locked door directly under the building’s marquee, an “open” sign is turned off. The real entrance is three windows down, under an incongruous green and […]
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