CALMATTERS

• Kaiser strike hits fourth week as 31,000 workers demand higher pay and better staffing
  February 16, 2026
  Thousands of Kaiser health care workers, including 22,000 nurses in Southern California, are on strike to demand better pay and staffing. The walk out has resulted in canceled or delayed appointments and surgeries, patients say.
• A California county’s only hospital cleared a federal hurdle, but it still needs millions to reopen
  February 14, 2026
  Congress restores critical access status for Glenn Medical Center, but the shuttered California hospital still needs $40-50 million to reopen.
• 'Es hora': los líderes de California revelan la mayor ofensiva contra conductores ebrios en décadas
  February 13, 2026
  Una coalición bipartidista de legisladores estatales ha presentado 10 proyectos de ley, un paquete sin precedentes diseñado para detener a los conductores mortales.
• Factory-built housing hasn’t taken off in California yet, but this year might be different
  February 13, 2026
  Building homes inside a factory has long been seen as a way to revolutionize the American housing industry, ushering in a new era of higher quality homes at lower price. That dream has never quite […]
• California schools that ban cellphones make students want them more
  February 13, 2026
  Punishing all for the noncompliance of a few breeds resentment. Schools should confiscate phones from students who repeatedly offend.
• Here’s how Newsom’s spending binge outstripped revenues, creating California’s chronic deficit
  February 13, 2026
  Obscure charts show how California's spending exploded under Newsom, far outstripping its stagnant population growth, inflation and a hefty increase in revenues.
• ‘It’s time’: California leaders unveil biggest crackdown on drunk drivers in decades
  February 12, 2026
  A bipartisan coalition of state lawmakers has introduced 10 bills, an unprecedented package designed to stop deadly drivers.
• California Republican Kevin Kiley bucks Trump on tariffs as he weighs reelection
  February 12, 2026
  Kiley has yet to declare which district he'll run in — or whether he'll run at all — after Prop. 50 turned his current seat solidly Democratic.
• California mountain lions are now considered ‘threatened.’ But only in certain regions
  February 12, 2026
  State fish and game officials declared mountain lions in the Central Coast and Southern California threatened under the state’s endangered species act.
• Kristi Noem alaba historial de Trump en la fronteras mientras manifestantes de San Diego interrumpen su rueda de prensa
  February 12, 2026
  La visita de la Secretaria de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem, a la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México se produce en un momento en que las encuestas muestran un apoyo cada vez menor a las […]