Ben Christopher
Ben Christopher is a Bay Area journalist and CALmatters contributor.
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A new legal settlement between the state and a coalition of anti-poverty and tenant rights groups means that some California tenants will get another shot at rent relief, even though the COVID-era rental assistance program has officially ended and the state's housing department previously denied them.
In highway crash statistics, unemployment claims, anti-Newsom lawsuits and florist sales, the numbers in these charts present a “before” and “after” picture of these last surreal, lonely, heartrending, life-ending and life-altering 365 days.
Desde marzo, figuras religiosas han intentado (sin lograrlo) convencer que jueces deroguen las restricciones de salud pública de California sobre reuniones masivas como violaciones inconstitucionales de la libertad religiosa. Parece que eso cambiará.
From the pandemic's start, religious leaders have been trying and failing to convince judges to strike down California’s restrictions on mass gatherings as unconstitutional violations of religious freedom. Supreme Court decisions could change that.
Explore how much money has been poured into each proposition with this interactive tool from CalMatters.
Where things stand on Pres. Trump's threat to defund "sanctuary" jurisdictions