As Governor Jerry Brown touted California’s environmental initiatives and prodded world leaders in Paris to embrace tougher environmental policies during the United Nations summit on climat...
https://capitalandmain.com/how-big-oil-spiked-jerry-browns-climate-change-agenda-1210
Paul Duncan, a battalion chief with California’s state firefighting agency, was at home in Northern California enjoying a day off on September 12 when he got the message: A wildfire wa...
https://capitalandmain.com/paradise-burned-how-climate-change-is-scorching-california-1110
Lucy Dunn has a message for Republican lawmakers: Approve new revenue now to fix California’s decaying highway and bridge system or face severe economic consequences that will be felt throu...
https://capitalandmain.com/can-a-business-labor-alliance-save-californias-infrastructure-0908
Hopes were high among environmentalists when a bill designed to protect California’s drinking water was introduced in the state Assembly earlier this year. After all, California has passed ...
https://capitalandmain.com/how-democrats-mixed-oil-and-water-killing-environmental-bill-0709
Yoel Matute had worked at a Santa Monica car wash for seven years and was upset because he believed he wasn’t being paid for all the hours he worked. So in 2012 he decided to sue in court to re...
https://capitalandmain.com/arbitration-clauses-job-seekers-signing-crooked-dotted-line
When New York rapper Jay-Z played the Rose Bowl last summer, he surprised 90,000 concertgoers by making a political statement. Before launching into his hit “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem),”...
https://capitalandmain.com/three-strikes-reform-proposition-47-and-the-fight-against-inequality
Throughout 2011 and 2012, the eyes of the education world were focused on Adelanto, a small, working class town in California’s High Desert. A war had broken out there over the future of the K-...
https://capitalandmain.com/adelanto-report-card-year-zero-of-the-parent-trigger-revolution
Whether or not Parent Trigger represents a bold frontier in the movement to privatize the nation’s public education system, its implementation in California’s High Desert does bear some of t...
OAKLAND – The growing nationwide movement by cities and counties to raise the minimum wage is currently centered here in the Bay Area, and its success couldn’t be more urgent for workers like...
https://capitalandmain.com/bay-area-cities-set-sites-on-raising-their-minimum-wage
The latest sign that the nation’s 14-year romance with the for-profit cyber charter industry might be cooling came last week when the Board of Trustees for Pennsylvania’s scandal-plagued Agor...
https://capitalandmain.com/cyber-charter-school-revolt-against-k12-inc-continues