Sacramento Now that California finally is loosening its COVID restrictions, the state is back to dealing with one of its longest-running crises: the state’s persistent housing shortages. The housing market has overheated throughout most of the country, but the median…
After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s announcement that individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19 do not need to wear masks in most public places, almost all jurisdictions that had not already lifted laws or emergency orders requiring masks did…
Public-sector unions have long been some of America’s biggest funders of progressive political causes and candidates. So it’s no surprise that union officials have called for tax hikes this year in states like New York and Illinois and cheered President…
Sacramento California may be the “edge of the world and all of Western civilization,” as the Los Angeles-based rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers sang in their 22-year-old hit, “Californication,” but their most provocative lyrics come later in the…
America took a jump backward about 100 years last week, and it was an interesting sight to see. At issue was Sen. Marco Rubio and an op-ed he wrote for USA Today. Rubio announced a surprising change of position —…
Normally, union-management disputes are like unhappy marriages — no one not directly involved truly knows where the blame lies and why. But the United Food and Commercial Workers’ bizarre series of moves on the West Coast — and to some…
An awkward conflict in Washington reveals both the tectonic shifts remaking American politics and Joe Biden’s Achilles’ heel. Biden has tabbed climate change as one of the “four interrelated existential crises” facing America today and has released a barrage of…
Sacramento The little-known Oakley Union Elementary School District, in the sprawling suburbs 50 miles east of San Francisco, isn’t accustomed to national attention. The school board’s hot mic moment, however, during a video call earlier this month created widespread and…
Washington “There are only two choices: Which one will it be?” the Chicago Teachers Union argued to its members. “Risk your life or your students’ lives by going into dangerous buildings,” or agree to strike if Chicago Public Schools go…
