OPINION - Without swift action to reauthorize the cap-and-trade program and implement updates to align with the state’s ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris ended speculation that she would run for governor of California with posts on social ...

Opinion - Rideshare gave me the flexibility to continue pursuing educational passions while serving my community in a new way. Assembly Bill 1340, which is currently moving through the State ...

Lobbyist, professor, and author Chris Micheli offers a quick look at what’s coming up this week in Sacramento.

With more and more lobby days taking place in the California State Capitol (and its Swing Space), law professor and lobbyist ...

OPINION – Every afternoon, thousands of California students are turned away from Expanded Learning Programs (ELPs), not ...

If there was any single event that sped the emptying of state asylums in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was the publication of a 204-page report entitled, “The Dilemma of Mental ...

In just a few months, Capitol Weekly will unveil its 16th annual Top 100 list recognizing the most influential members of the Capitol community. As we began researching this year’s list, however, we ...

MICHELI FILES: For purposes of statutory construction, the courts and bill drafters use a series of “canons” to guide them. These include textual canons (intrinsic aids), linguistic presumptions and ...

For more than five decades, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act has been the foundation for how California treats or fails to treat people with severe mental illness. Now, legislators from both parties ...

Decades of underinvestment in schools, culture battles over bilingual education, and dizzying levels of income inequality have pushed California to the bottom of the pile, making it the least literate ...