When Tony Cárdenas was elected to the California state Assembly in 1996, he made history as the first Latino from the San ...

The increase in lobbyists means there’s now at least one lobbyist for every legislative staff member in California.

The backstory: California saw its biggest increase in registered lobbyists last session since at least 2011, when a change in ...

Should military retirement income be exempt from state taxation? That’s the goal of one of the very first bills filed for the 2025-26 legislative session. From Sen. Kelly Seyarto, a Republican whose ...

A week after the November election, I joined nearly two dozen newly elected members of the state ... or politics – but on how the state Legislature itself works. What new legislators are taught should ...

This post was updated Dec. 26 at 9:11 p.m. UC faculty have delayed sending the UC President and Board of Regents a first-year ...

State's Rights' is a political philosophy that is commonly linked in U.S. history to the Secessionist Crisis of 1860 that ...

IT IS REALLY TIGHT. AND FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1980, A REPUBLICAN HAS FLIPPED A SEAT IN THE STATE SENATE IN A GENERAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HERE IN CALIFORNIA, DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR JOSH ...

Within the state Legislature ... awkward considering the growing number of Latino Republicans in the California Legislature. Representing at least parts of Riverside County and San Bernardino ...

became California’s first Latina Republican state senator when she was elected in 2020; now, there are three. She remembered running into Latino Legislative Caucus members at a dinner her first ...