Late last month, the California Chamber of Commerce announced it had filed paperwork to place a measure on next November’s ...

Gavin Newsom went further this year than before, as he even held up the budget until he secured the passage of laws that expand CEQA exemptions. Nevertheless, the state steadfastly refuses to simply ...

Former Gov. Jerry Brown once referred to overhauling the California Environmental Quality Act as “the Lord’s work” because, he said, it made building much-needed things — housing, transportation ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers have focused on pocketbook concerns this year, seeing their party’s national losses as a reckoning. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers ...