CALMATTERS

• California se encuentra en un punto muerto con el Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados por compartir datos de licencias de conducir con otros estados
  June 18, 2026
  Los legisladores de California están reteniendo los fondos que la administración de Newsom solicitó para una base de datos nacional de licencias de conducir, debido a la preocupación de que la información pueda conducir a […]
• California is getting ready to increase a health insurance tax. Will it affect your premium?
  June 18, 2026
  A balance act: To help fund the safety net, lawmakers have voted through a health tax extension that could increase premium costs for Californians with private insurance
• This lawmaker’s proposal could make California ‘the most secretive state in the country’
  June 18, 2026
  Pacheco’s legislation would allow public agencies to delay records requests it deems “improperly” filed, sue for “malicious” requests and charge up to $66 an hour to produce government records. One good governance advocate calls it […]
• State workers fight Newsom’s return-to-office mandate
  June 18, 2026
  Scheduling note: WhatMatters is taking Juneteenth off and will return to your inboxes Monday. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandate for state workers to return to the office four days a week is back on, and many […]
• A tax on billionaires qualified for the November ballot. 5 things to know about the measure
  June 18, 2026
  A California union wants to tax billionaires to fund healthcare. The initiative has drawn fierce opposition from Newsom and Silicon Valley moguls.
• Single-payer healthcare in California is possible. An economic and political thicket stands in the way
  June 18, 2026
  A pathway to single-payer healthcare may be possible, but hacking it through the thicket of healthcare economics and politics would require dozens — or even hundreds — of difficult choices.
• Newsom promised to help Californians build new careers. Now, the money is running out
  June 18, 2026
  Gov Gavin Newsom made job training and the creation of a master plan for career education part of his agenda. Now, key workforce initiatives may get no new funding.