OPINION - Making a correction the commercial potential of cellulosic biofuels is hard, but not making one all but ensures a ...

While redistricting has taken center stage for the moment, when lawmakers return next week they will also have a full package ...

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

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.

OPINION – California has long been a hub for innovation—pioneering everything from personal computers to artificial intelligence. We lead, not follow. But some officials in Sacramento seem more ...

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 ...