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Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) discusses legislation during floor debate at the state Capitol on Aug. 29, 2019.

Column: No debate on skyrocketing cost of California single-payer bill? So much for good government

The contentious single-payer healthcare bill, AB 1400, sailed through the Assembly Appropriations Committee on a party-line 11-3 vote without any discussion, columnist George Skelton writes.
A Covid-19 vaccine site at Children's Hospital Arcadia Speciality Care Center

All California schoolchildren must be vaccinated against COVID-19 under new bill

Vaccine protester Jessica Holloway of Lake County.

Anti-vaccination forces gear up for fight over California vaccine legislation

FILE - Sirhan Sirhan reacts during a parole hearing on Feb. 10, 2016, at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, rejected releasing Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan from prison more than a half-century after the 1968 slaying left a deep wound during one of America’s darkest times. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, Pool, File)

Nicholas Goldberg: Why do murderers have to show “remorse” to be granted parole?

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA-SEPTEMBER 21, 2018: Shopping center developer Rick Caruso is photographed on the grounds of his latest project, Palisades Village in Pacific Palisades, that is opening on Saturday. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)

Does L.A. want a billionaire mayor? Rick Caruso is trying to find out

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Ana Chaglasian is an ambassador with Teens for Vaccines

California kids 12 and older could receive COVID-19 vaccine without parent’s OK

CALIPATRIA, CA - NOVEMBER 9, 2021: Drilling has begun at the Australian company's Controlled Thermal Resources geothermal energy and lithium plant on the south side of the Salton Sea on November 9, 20201 in Calipatria, California. The half-billion-dollar "Hell's Kitchen" project has the potential to supply huge amounts of 24/7 clean energy for the power grid and lithium for electric vehicle batteries and energy storage installations. This will foster a clean energy boom in the Imperial Valley. General Motors has invested in the plant.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Lithium might not be a gold rush for California. But it could be for people near the Salton Sea

In this Thursday, May 16, 2019 photo, state Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D- Van Nuys, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. The California Senate approved Hertzberg's bill, SB51, on Tuesday May 21, 2019, that would create special banks to handle money from legal marijuana retailers. The bill now goes to the Assembly for consideration. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

State Senate leader Bob Hertzberg to run for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Capitol building in Sacramento.

California freezes 345,000 ‘suspicious’ disability insurance claims

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Los Angeles, CA - June 18: Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, joined by members of SEIU Local 2015 and other local leaders, addresses a news conference held on the steps of Hall of Justice on Friday, June 18, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Column: Violent crime fuels second Gascón recall try, but can D.A. be blamed?

D.A. Gascón’s critics mount another recall campaign while he defends first year of reforms.
VAN NUYS-CA-JANUARY 21, 2022: Mayoral candidate Mel Wilson takes a hammer to a piggy bank during a rally outside DWP in Van Nuys surrounded by supporters on Friday, January 21, 2022. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. mayoral candidate Mel Wilson leads protest over DWP rates and billing scandal

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 27, 2019 — Mel Levine, President of Board of Water and Power Commissioners at meeting to approve a 25-year contract Tuesday for a solar-plus-energy-storage project in Kern County. This looks like the cheapest contract ever signed for solar in the United States, and maybe in the world, with the energy priced at less than 2 cents per kilowatt-hour. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

Attorney’s ethics complaint seeks investigation of Feuer, others in DWP case

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 12, 2020 Former Los Angeles city councilman Mitchell "Mitch" Englander, walks with his wife Jayne Englander, left, and his lead attorney Janet Levine, right, as they exit the Load Angeles Federal Courthouse after her appeared for a trial-setting conference Thursday morning March 12, 2020. The former Los Angeles city councilman is accused of obstructing an investigation into his allegedly accepting gifts from a businessman during trips to Las Vegas and Palm Springs and he faces seven federal criminal counts -- three of witness tampering, three for allegedly making false statements and a single count of scheming to falsify facts. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

After guilty plea in federal case, Englander now faces L.A. city ethics charges

San Francisco, California,-Aug. 13, 2020-At Ladybug Childcare/Preschool in San Francisco's marina district, teacher Edith Amaya, left, checks the temperature of Leila Twitchell, age 4, as her father Mark Twitchell drops her off at preschool on August 13, 2020. Children and teachers must wear a mask at all times. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

California child-care workers struggle with COVID-19 test kit shortages

L.A. mayoral candidate Jessica Lall wants a city department of homelessness

Editorial: California lawmakers must let the public participate by phone

Column: Dear Karen Bass and others, L.A. needs a real homeless plan we haven’t heard before

Mike Bonin recall drive failed to turn in enough valid signatures, city clerk says

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Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, wears face mask as she calls on lawmakers to approve a measure to place a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot to allow state legislators to vote remotely during emergencies, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Wicks said she attended the session, even though she is pregnant, to ensure her constituents weren't disenfranchised. The Assembly approved the measure and it sent it to the Senate which has until June 25 to pass the proposal and place it before voters in November. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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‘Gimme Shelter’: What to expect in California housing in 2022

How will the California housing market change and how will state and local officials respond to continuing affordable housing challenges in 2022.

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