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32.2% of Californians are fully vaccinated. A Message from our Sponsor Other stories you should know 1. LA city, county must house Skid Row A tent encampment in the Skid Row district of Los Angeles on Aug. 7, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters In another massive Tuesday ruling, a federal judge ordered the city and county of Los Angeles to offer shelter and support services to the entire homeless population of Skid Row by Oct. 18, with earlier deadlines for single women, unaccompanied children and families. The move comes about a year after the Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights sued...

27.1% of Californians are fully vaccinated. Podcast: Baseball fans get back to basics as California slowly reopens, and a CalMatters investigation reveals bewildering delays in the state’s nursing home oversight. Listen to the latest California State of Mind episode here. A Message from our Sponsor Other stories you should know 1. A Bible study group. Image via iStock The U.S. Supreme Court knocked down another one of Newsom’s coronavirus restrictions on Friday, finding that the state’s ban on at-home religious gatherings violated the First Amendment. The 5-4 ruling paves the way for i...

Published April 8, 2021 at 10:41 AM PDT Anne Wernikoff / CalMatters / Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to the press during a visit to Ruby Bridges Elementary School in Alameda on March 16, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters The numbers appear to be in order to force a recall vote on California Governor Gavin Newsom. The supporters of the recall campaign already have more than enough signatures, but the number of valid signatures is yet to be determined. The last recall vote, in 2003, turned out Gray Davis and replaced him with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The players and reasons are dif...

Good morning, California! It’s Monday, April 5. I’m CalMatters politics reporter Ben Christopher, filling in for Emily Hoeven, who is enjoying a much-deserved week off. A “gold rush” amid the calamity This much is not news: California’s Employment Development Department, the state agency responsible for shelling out unemployment claims to millions of jobless Californians, is still a mess.  Since the beginning of the pandemic, the department has spent $236 million on contract workers, software upgrades and other patches to its overburdened and frayed system. With a little digging,...

Bye Bye Newsom? California Governor Recall campaign logs nearly two million signatures. Posted on The campaign to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom has collected 1,950,000 signatures, Katy Grimes of the California Globe reports, far more than the 1.4 million signatures needed to qualify the recall for the ballot. A full 1.6 million signatures were collected entirely by volunteers, and according to organizer Orrin Heatlie, 31.5 percent of the signers were “other than Republicans.” As the recall effort surges, Democrats turn up the volume against it. “Right-wing Republicans in CA...