San Quentin Giants baseball. Photo by AP.A new California law aims to codify organized sports in state prisons as a way to reduce prison violence and recidivism.
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Carol Dahmen-Eckery. Image from her Facebook page.CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: A great advance person is equal parts drill sergeant, Energizer Bunny and psychic, with an obsessive attention to detail. On today’s show we are joined by Carol Dahmen-Eckery, who for decades was one of the most well-known and respected campaign managers and advance team leaders in the business, who shares a plethora of insights and lessons from her years being the one to stop problems before they could even occur.
Anchor & Tree, image by Ellie Appleby, Capitol WeeklyAround the Capitol, a walk of just a few blocks can take someone past national chains, longtime Sacramento institutions and an increasingly crowded collection of independent cafes and specialty roasters. For Anchor & Tree Coffee Roasting Co., standing out in that landscape has meant building something that extends beyond what is in the cup.
Lobbyist, author and McGeorge law professor Chris Micheli offers a quick look at what’s coming up this week under the Capitol Dome.
Image by zssp, iStock Images.The growing shortage of stenographers in courtrooms across the state is becomming a constitutional crisis.
Cassidy Denny. Photo by Ellie Appleby, Capitol WeeklyIn California, just 12 of the 135 members sworn into office for the current 2025-2026 legislative session were aged 35 or younger. The average age of California State Assembly members is 49 years, and the average age of California Senate members is 55 years, according to research by Rutgers University. And yet, in Sacramento, younger legislative staffers are more regularly gaining access to positions of influence in the capitol, even as their generations remain underrepresented among elected officials.
Image by seb_ra via iStock.Unlike some states that have a robust, codified “Code Construction Act,” California spreads its interpretive rules across random segments of a number of the 29 Codes, including the Civil Code and Code of Civil Procedure, as well as decades of judicial precedent.
Image by whyframestudio, iStock Images.A new slate of leadership in Sacramento presents a crucial opportunity to restructure electricity policy
Image by Daisy Castellón, Lucas Public AffairsOPINION – California is about to experience an historical level of power being concentrated among Latino leaders. Whether it remains a milestone or becomes a turning point depends on how well they, and all of us who work in this arena, speak to the state’s largest community in a way it recognizes as its own.