Ben Christopher
CalMatters-
California voters will soon get a third chance to say “yes” to rent control.
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Tenants complained about steep rent increases from a Silicon Valley landlord. Now, 20 of them will get a refund under a state rent control law.
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Will America embrace Newsom’s gun plan? 5 things to know about his bid to change the US ConstitutionGavin Newsom’s proposed US constitutional amendment includes four popular gun control policies, but it faces an extraordinarily difficult path to succeeding.
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Wildfires and expensive rebuilding wiped out profits among California home insurers. State Farm isn’t the first insurer to retreat from the state, and may not be the last.
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The governor’s building plan would adjust an environmental law known for stalling housing, dams and other projects. One environmental group said, “we have never been more disappointed in a California governor than we are with Gov. Newsom.”
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When will the law of supply and demand cool California’s housing market? The state is losing population as it builds homes at its fastest clip in more than a decade.
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A California housing law grants generous benefits to builders who agree to only hire union workers. Trouble is, few if any builders found a way to do it.
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Many more gun owners are seeking California concealed carry permits, even in blue, coastal counties. Gov. Newsom and Democrats in the Legislature are trying again to limit where weapons are allowed.
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Silicon Valley Bank’s failure is a sign of weakness in the tech industry, and that could spell trouble for the state of California.
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On Tuesday, the city council in the Orange County town of Huntington Beach — a regular fount of anti-Newsom sentiment — followed through on its pledge to pass an ordinance blocking a contentious state housing law within its sun-soaked borders.
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California has two seemingly contradictory and potentially devastating problems:We have more water than we know what to do with — and more is on the way.We still don’t have nearly enough.
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For a bill described by its author as “the most significant political reform of the last 50 years,” Senate Bill 1439 sure didn’t get much attention when it was working its way through the Legislature last year.