Politics

California voters have two impressive candidates to choose from in the race for state controller, an obscure but important office...

How to vote in the 2022 midterm election in California

Your sample ballot will have an address printed on it showing your local polling site. If an address isn’t listed,...

Column: Is Gavin Newsom running for president? Or is he just desperate for attention?

Is he or isn’t he? With California Gov. Gavin Newsom a seeming shoo-in for reelection, the political world has been...

Biden scrambles to shore up Latino support. Is it too late?

WASHINGTON — A few months after taking office, President Biden invited a group of top Latino leaders to the White House....

These migrants were flown to California from Texas. They don’t know why or who paid for their flights

Eight Venezuelan migrants were flown last week from Texas to Sacramento with little cash — some without shoes — and...

California workers won’t have to worry about being fired, or not hired, for off-the-clock marijuana use

It will soon be illegal for California employers to let workers’ off-site and outside-of-work marijuana use be a factor in...

Endorsement: Send Menjivar, Carrillo and McKinnor to Sacramento

It’s a year of change in Sacramento.After several years without much turnover in the state Legislature, 2022 saw an unusual...

Column: Voters are turned off by Props. 26 and 27. Racing tracks should pick a better horse next time

SACRAMENTO — You’d never know it from the incessant TV ads, but troubled horse racing would greatly benefit from a sports...

Guerrero: Imagine if white vigilantes and ‘illegals’ united for their common cause

The first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, I interviewed a 78-year-old man who regularly patrolled his border-adjacent property in the...

Putin’s brutality in Ukraine can get worse. Get ready for a chilly winter