FOLLOW US
News Blues: Google, AI and Media Money
California lawmakers are abandoning an ambitious proposal to force Google to pay news companies for using their content.
Instead, the tech giant has agreed to...
Raises Arrive for Some Fast Food Workers
Say someone works at a fast food restaurant or coffee shop that bears the name of a national chain. Under California law, they’re entitled...
Camp Court: Supreme Court to hear homeless encampments case
The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on whether cities can legally ban or limit unhoused people camping in public spaces—a case that could...
Pandemic aid ends as food prices soar
Food insecurity in California ticked upward over the past year, bringing the share of hardship back up to levels early in the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Wage War: State budget reboots labor commission
Folded into California’s $310 billion budget agreement is a relatively small line item: $3 million to resurrect an obscure old state commission that once...
