CALMATTERS

• Should a California union dictate how clinics spend money? Employers sue to block ballot measure
  April 30, 2026
  A clinic group sued to block a union ballot measure that would dictate how community health centers spend money.
• Condado de San Diego interviene con subvenciones para las artes en medio de los recortes federales y municipales
  April 30, 2026
  El condado de San Diego planea un programa de subvenciones artísticas, el primero de su tipo, por valor de 2.75 millones de dólares para apoyar a artistas individuales, artistas binacionales y artistas negros.
• Estos son los candidatos a vicegobernador de California: ‘Un trabajo sobre nada’
  April 30, 2026
  Cinco candidatos principales, entre ellos la tesorera estatal Fiona Ma y el ex alcalde de Stockton, Michael Tubbs, compiten por el puesto, notoriamente decepcionante, de vicegobernador.
• A $7 cheeseburger reopened debate over bail in California. Here’s what the Supreme Court found
  April 30, 2026
  A homeless man was arrested after using stolen credit cards to buy a meal and then spent six months in a Bay Area jail. His case triggered a debate over expensive bail.
• New Supreme Court ruling won’t change CA maps, but could hurt Dems
  April 30, 2026
  The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a congressional voting map in Louisiana, adding a new wrinkle to the multistate gerrymandering war, report CalMatters’ Nigel Duara and Maya C. Miller. On Wednesday the high court upheld […]
• Meet the candidates for California lieutenant governor: ‘A job about nothing’
  April 30, 2026
  Five major candidates, including state Treasurer Fiona Ma and former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, are competing for the notoriously anticlimactic gig of lieutenant governor.
• How the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling could affect California’s gerrymandered districts
  April 30, 2026
  The High Court's decision guts the Voting Rights Act’s impetus to draw districts so non-white ethnic groups get congressional representation.