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Half of the measure’s $8 billion is effectively reserved for a single institution (Republished from The California Globe – californiaglobe.com) By Katy Grimes Proposition 38, the November ballot measure designed to fund medical research, is designed to be exclusively directed to a single research institute founded by the top donor of the ballot measure: the California Institute for…

Did I almost lose my license for doing the right thing – this judgment is huge’ By Katy Grimes (Republished from The California Globe -californiaglobe.com) California passed Assembly Bill 2098 in 2022 to punish doctors for spreading “Covid misinformation.” That horrible period of time seems like many years ago, but the Orwellian after effects have lingered.…

(REPUBLISHED FROM CALMATTERS – Sign up for their newsletters) BY RYAN SABALOW For six years, Californians have been able to shake up a craft cocktail at home using alcohol delivered to their doorstep. Now, it’s last call for the distillery deliveries, unless lawmakers intervene by the end of this month. That’s unlikely, thanks to opposition from California’s…

BY ALEJANDRO LAZO (This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters) California cities can’t require taxpayers to navigate extra local procedures before seeking a tax refund in court, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday in a long-running lawsuit involving Marathon Petroleum, which operates the state’s largest refinery. The decision gives Marathon a procedural victory in its…

Improper enrollees include individuals whose incomes exceed limits, those who fail citizenship, immigration, or residency requirements, and others ineligible for any Medicaid coverage (Republished from The California Globe – californiaglobe.com) By Megan Barth, August 3, 2026 A new analysis from the Paragon Health Institute finds that nearly half of Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion enrollees in 2024—approximately 9.2 million people—were likely ineligible…

California is an outlier – no other state gets into emissions’ By Katy Grimes, August 1, 2026 6:30 am Equipment manufacturing executives met with California Air Resources Board (CARB) leadership in Sacramento on Wednesday for an off-the-record discussion. This followed CARB’s July 2, 2026, approval of $70 million in incentivesaimed at cutting emissions from off-road equipment. Media…

Flat-fee contracts have been banned in other parts of the country. But, as the story of one law firm shows, they have flourished in the Golden State. (Side note. Mariposa County just made a budget transfer to increase the county’s available funds for contracted legal defense services.) BY ANAT RUBIN 17 For three years, the…

Records show Anamaria Avila Farias tried to have her month placed under conservatorship. She dropped it once she gained control of disputed properties. BY RHONDA LYONS, SPECIAL FOR CALMATTERS CAL MATTERS (This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.) AnaMaria Ávila Bugarin had racked up tens of thousands of dollars in bills for psychological…