Author: CalMatters
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CalMatters: California Investigating OpenAI’s Conversion to a For-Profit Company
January 28, 2025
As part of what it described as an ongoing investigation, the California attorney general’s office has sought answers from OpenAI...
Public Safety
CalMatters: LA Fires Could Drastically Drive Up Insurance Premiums – And Test California’s New Market Rules
January 15, 2025
The deadly and destructive fires in Los Angeles — which some say could be the costliest in the state’s history...
Community
CalMatters: Five Things to Watch as California’s Legislature Returns to the Capitol in 2025
January 12, 2025
With the election and the holidays behind them, the California Legislature returns to Sacramento today to kick off a new...
Community
CalMatters: California Limits Junk Fees and Blocks Fines for Declined ATM Withdrawals
January 11, 2025
Californians who try to withdraw money but don’t have enough in their bank accounts won’t fall deeper into a financial...
CommunitySchools
CalMatters: California Banned Bilingual Education for Almost 20 Years and Still Hasn’t Recovered
December 29, 2024
In 1953, Bárbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley...
Community
CalMatters: Gambling Companies Spent Big to Defeat Three California Lawmakers
December 20, 2024
California’s card rooms lost a costly legislative fight this year as they sought to kill a bill that would allow...
Community
CalMatters: Landlords are Using AI to Raise Rents – And California Cities are Leading the Pushback
December 15, 2024
If you’ve hunted for apartments recently and felt like all the rents were equally high, you’re not crazy: Many landlords...
Community
CalMatters: Economists Like Newsom’s Plan to Help Control Gas Prices, Refiners Don’t
October 1, 2024
Fall is in the air, and that means California drivers are gearing up for seasonal price increases at the pump....
Community
CalMatters: Project 2025 Tells California to Report Abortion Data or Lose Billions in Medicaid
September 21, 2024
Project 2025, the 900-page conservative playbook for the next Republican president, issues an ultimatum for California: track and report abortion...
Community
CalMatters: More Affordable Housing Funds Could Come with New Labor Requirements
September 9, 2024
The Legislature has foisted a $500 million compromise on affordable housing developers and one of the state’s largest construction unions....









