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California shouldn’t tax employers for hiring the people who need jobs the most
Image by Moment Makers Group, iStock Images.The employer tax proposal is also simply unworkable by design.
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California can protect privacy without limiting tech that helps people with disabilities work
Image by Tanny Solt, iStock Images.Smart glasses are helping people with disabilities perform everyday tasks more independently.
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Local farmers found a groundwater solution that works. Proposition 4 should build on it.
Image by Jerome-Maurice, iStock Images.The need for tools like LandFlex to reduce groundwater use is only becoming clearer.
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Gov. Newsom has one last chance to rein in wildfire costs on our electric bills
Image by Olga Demina, iStock Images.Two electricity affordability bills sitting on Gov. Newsom’s desk — SB 905 and SBl 1098 — would deliver real relief on wildfire costs.
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Why I support PACE — a compassionate and cost-effective model of care
Image by seb_ra, iStock Images.PACE is one of the most compassionate and cost-effective models of care California offers.
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California’s jails need greater accountability — Gov. Newsom can make a difference
Conditions in our county jails do not align with the values of Californians, the need for public safety or the promises of the Constitution.
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California failed us as children. Now it must protect the next generation.
Image by fizkes, iStock Images.SB 577 represents progress. But passing written protections is not the same as making children safe. The harder work begins now.
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California’s wildfire bills need water safeguards written into law
Image by leolintang, iStock Images.Wildfire bills could fast-track herbicide-treatment projects without requiring baseline water testing or downstream monitoring.
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Local farmers found a groundwater solution that works. Proposition 4 should build on it.
Image by Matt Gush, iStock Images.LandFlex works. Those results should matter as California decides how to continue investing Prop 4 funding.
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AB 706 is about forest management, not energy policy
Image by DNBSTOCK, iStock Images.AB 706 addresses a very practical question: what to do with millions of tons of forest derived low-value woody residue that litters forests across California.