California’s early taxes were disproportionate to population and wealth, and in 1870 the state created the State Board of ...

Before Californians can vote on the measure, backers must collect more than 870,000 signatures to qualify it for the November ...

CalMatters identified at least 100 "pork-barrel" earmarks set aside by California lawmakers in the latest state budget.

SACRAMENTO, CA – California will officially celebrate Diwali as a state holiday, following Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of Assembly Bill 268 on October 6 — a move that has sparked joy and pride ...

A new proposal from Jim Mangia, president and CEO of St. John’s Community Health, has been filed with the California Attorney General this week. It seeks to place a sweeping one-time “Billionaire Tax” ...

Earlier today, one of California’s most powerful unions and two of the nation’s most prominent progressive economists unveiled a 2026 state ballot measure that would establish the nation’s first ...

Voters will decide the future of Colorado’s universal free school meals program this November through a pair of ballot measures sent to them by the legislature. Propositions LL and MM are aimed at ...

NEW LAW GRANTS AUTOMATIC ADMISSION INTO CAL STATE SCHOOLS FOR QUALIFIED HIGH SCHOOL GRADS. YEAH, A LOT OF STUDENTS VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. GOVERNOR NEWSOM SIGNED THE BILL TO STREAMLINE THE COLLEGE ...

LANSING, MI -- Shortly after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a new 24% wholesale tax on marijuana into law, Michigan’s most prominent cannabis trade organization filed a lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed ...

California made history Wednesday by enacting the first law in the United States to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, from what’s projected to be over 1 billion meals ...

Companies owned by President Donald Trump have declared bankruptcy six times, a reminder that a corporation that defaults on repaying money it has borrowed is often forced into bankruptcy court.

AUGUSTA, Maine (WMTW) - Gov. Janet Mills says the state will not conform without legislative approval to some changes made in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The biennial ...