California Today: California Today: A Big Swing on Sanctuary Cities

April 24, 2017 Mike McPhate CALIFORNIA TODAY Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Not long ago, California Democrats were broadly opposed to so-called sanctuary policies that limit cooperation between local police and...

California’s Deluge of Rain Washes Away a Homeless Colony

By ADAM NAGOURNEY April 21, 2017 SACRAMENTO — For Robert Friend, home was a tent pitched down by the American River off 12th Street. It was quiet, secluded in the bushes, a respite from life on the pavement downtown. Or at least it was until the storms...

California Today: California Today: Weighing a Response on Internet Privacy

April 20, 2017 Mike McPhate CALIFORNIA TODAY Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) President Trump this month signed a resolution to undo internet privacy rules that would have kept companies like AT&T and Comcast from...

California Today: California Today: Weighing a Response on Internet Privacy

April 20, 2017 Mike McPhate CALIFORNIA TODAY Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) President Trump this month signed a resolution to undo internet privacy rules that would have kept companies like AT&T and Comcast from...

California Today: California Today: Thwarting the Tobacco Tax

April 18, 2017 Mike McPhate CALIFORNIA TODAY Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) The idea behind a recent tax increase on cigarettes in California was to nudge more smokers to quit: Hit them hard enough in the wallet, and...

Marijuana Goes Industrial in California

By THOMAS FULLER April 15, 2017 SALINAS, Calif. — This vast and fertile valley is often called the salad bowl of the nation for the countless heads of lettuce growing across its floor. Now California’s marijuana industry is laying claim to a new...