CALMATTERS

• California blocks Trump administration from withholding homelessness funds
  April 21, 2026
  California for now has prevented the Trump administration from changing priorities in homelessness funding to favor temporary shelters rather than long-term housing.
• Legislador de California propone plan pionero en el país para aumentar pagos de manutención infantil
  April 21, 2026
  Un legislador de California quiere incorporar a más familias al sistema formal de manutención infantil del estado, una medida que, según los activistas, podría reducir la pobreza infantil.
• These emails show what drove Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure
  April 21, 2026
  Using years of internal emails, reporters Anat Rubin and Jessica Pishko have traced the development of the 4-year-old case that ultimately led to Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s unprecedented seizure of 650,000 ballots in March. […]
• Internal emails show how fringe groups fueled Sheriff Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure 
  April 21, 2026
  Records reveal the investigation was based on the thinnest of evidence, raising alarms over how the November election could be disrupted.
• Websites break California privacy law at ‘industrial scale,’ survey finds
  April 21, 2026
  Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California law, researchers say.
• Why getting more California students into top UCs carries a big cost to taxpayers
  April 21, 2026
  At its three most popular campuses, UC agreed to admit more California students and reduce the number of out-of-state students. The state covered the loss of revenue from non-resident students, who pay three times what […]
• California’s hospice fraud crisis is flourishing in plain sight. Regulation needs to catch up
  April 21, 2026
  Scammers deceptively enroll seniors in hospice and bill Medicare or Medi-Cal. Patients then lose access to lifesaving treatments while fraudsters pocket the profit.