California State Assembly . Photo by Capitol Weekly. In this week’s Capitol Briefs we look at a handful of bills lawmakers have under consideration as we head toward the April 24th deadline for policy committees to hear and report to fiscal committees fiscal bills introduced in their chamber.
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Jessica Caloza. Photo by Ellie Appleby, Capitol Weekly. The first Filipina elected to the Legislature, Assemblymember Jessica Caloza represents Los Angeles, serving a working-class, immigrant-heavy district. She has built her career on a simple idea shaped by her own experience: that government can transform lives when it works.
Image by george tsartsianidis. We sometimes hear statements around the California State Capitol about codified versus uncodified laws. What’s the difference? In today’s Micheli Files Capitol lobbyist and McGeorge law professor Chris Micheli explains it all for you.
Steve Hilton. Photo by AP. Does Donald Trump’s endorsement of Steve Hilton ensure there won’t be an all-Republican gubernatorial runoff in November? Our panel of experts expound.
Congressman Eric Swalwell outside of the Capitol Weekly office. Photo by Tim Foster, Capitol WeeklyTwo Republicans lead polling in the California gubernatorial race, but major prediction markets like Kalshi, Polymarket, PredictIt and ForecastEx all say it’s Congressman Eric Swalwell’s race to lose. Why are their predictions so different? Which is more likely to be correct? Might prediction markets and the wisdom of the crowds threaten pollsters who have taken a beating in recent elections?
Rich Ehisen (L) and Lia Russell (R) in the Capitol Weekly office. Photo by Tim FosterCAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: Today’s guest is Sacramento Bee reporter Lia Russell. Russell covers the governor for The Bee’s Capitol Bureau, and was part of the team that broke the story of Dana Williamson’s arrest last year. We asked about that story, covering the capitol, and what it was like to cover politics in their earlier gigs in Bangor, Maine and Baltimore, Maryland.
A Man with psychologist theraphy social problems concept drug addiction talk to a psychological womanOPINION – California spends over a billion dollars annually on addiction treatment – but doesn’t hold treatment providers to quality standards. A new bill could change that.
A gloved hand is holding a test tube, close to a multi-well plate, within a laboratory setting, highlighting scientific research.OPINION – California patients living with rare diseases and chronic conditions are enrolled into new clinical trials every day – not as a last resort, but as a pathway to better treatment and hope. Yet a bill moving through Sacramento could quietly put that progress at risk.
Rear view of a girl paddling in a kayak on the Sella river descent in Asturias, Spain. Active tourism activities. Rural tourism.OPINION – Republican Gov. Earl Warren’s avoidance of ideological excess established a style of governance that Gov. Jerry Brown, a Warren admirer, aptly described this approach as the “canoe theory”: “The way you have to approach the political process is something like piloting a canoe…. If you paddle a little bit on the left side, then you paddle a little bit on the right side, you keep going right down the middle.”