Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) has been appointed to chair the California state Senate’s influential health committee — a change that promises a more urgent focus on expanding mental health services and moving homeless people into housing and treatment.
Two local ballot initiatives this November will decide whether healthcare workers in private hospitals and other health facilities (like private dialysis clinics) should receive a minimum wage increase to $25 an hour: Measure HC in Inglewood and Measure J in Duarte.
California Together, a campaign led by religious and anti-abortion groups, is warning voters: If Proposition 1 passes, taxpayers will have to pay for an influx of abortion seekers from out of state and for those seeking late-term abortions. That's not exactly true.