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Advocates and lawmakers are calling for fully independent commissions to decide election districts for cities and counties across California.

Advocates and lawmakers are calling for fully independent commissions to decide election districts for cities and counties across California.

Advocates and lawmakers are calling for fully independent commissions to decide election districts for cities and counties across California.

Advocates and lawmakers are calling for fully independent commissions to decide election districts for cities and counties across California.

California Democrats want to change the state constitution to safeguard a right that is already firmly protected across the state, just in case the U.S. Supreme

State legislators sometimes exempt themselves from the laws they pass, but this session, they could change course on an emblematic bill: To allow their own staffers to form a union.

A number of new laws in California affect farmworkers' right to unionize, salary transparency, reproductive rights, Native American history taught in schools, and more. Then we'll discuss Governor Newsom's proposed $297 billion budget.

Programming note: I’m Sameea Kamal, politics reporter at CalMatters, and I’ll be in your inbox on Mondays for the next few weeks. You may have seen my bylines

Over the next few days, very different events will take place in downtown Sacramento. Today, Gov. Gavin Newsom is set to march to the state Capitol with a group

The massive, bomb-cyclone-fueled storm set to unleash on California today — dumping more rain and snow across much of the already-soaked state while whipping it