OPINION - California is a global leader in forward-thinking climate and environmental solutions. Derailing the state’s ...

Capitol Weekly recently asked the leading insurance commissioner candidates to answer a set of identical questions regarding how they would approach this incredibly important and challenging job.  The ...

Today we welcome Clint Kellum, the new (as of November 2025) Director of the California Department of Cannabis Control.  The CDCC licenses and regulates cannabis businesses, including regulation of ...

Local election officials across the U.S. are facing a range of challenges as they look ahead to this year’s elections – and 2028 as well. Among the biggest: how to serve a rapidly diversifying ...

It’s early to think of what California’s fiscal budget may look like by the time lawmakers finalize it in June. But Gov. Gavin Newsom is already banking on the tech industry to save the state from ...

It has been another busy week around the Capitol. Her are some of the highlights, lowlights and one big eye roll…in brief!

OPINION – California has demonstrated that ambitious climate policy and economic growth can move in lockstep as we have reduced carbon emissions and built one of the largest clean energy economies in ...

OPINION - Billionaires are uniquely positioned in their ability to help stop a healthcare collapse here in California. These are individuals who have accumulated tremendous wealth thanks to the unique ...

Lobbyist, author and McGeorge law professor Chris Micheli offers a quick look at what’s coming up this week under the Capitol Dome.

OPINION - Governor Newsom, with his Presidential aspirations hidden from no one, ought to seize this opportunity on ...

The most intense parlor game in Sacramento is that of projecting the composition of June’s Top Two gubernatorial primary. Not ...

Special interests paid lobbying firms more than $91 million to lobby state government in the fourth quarter of 2025, ...