As part of what it described as an ongoing investigation, the California attorney general’s office has sought answers from OpenAI about its reported plan to convert to a for-profit...
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Public Safety
CalMatters: LA Fires Could Drastically Drive Up Insurance Premiums – And Test California’s New Market Rules
The deadly and destructive fires in Los Angeles — which some say could be the costliest in the state’s history — will...
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Community
CalMatters: Five Things to Watch as California’s Legislature Returns to the Capitol in 2025
With the election and the holidays behind them, the California Legislature returns to Sacramento today to kick off a new session in...
Californians who try to withdraw money but don’t have enough in their bank accounts won’t fall deeper into a financial hole from...
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Schools
CalMatters: California Banned Bilingual Education for Almost 20 Years and Still Hasn’t Recovered
In 1953, Bárbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by...
California’s card rooms lost a costly legislative fight this year as they sought to kill a bill that would allow their competitors,...
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CalMatters: Landlords are Using AI to Raise Rents – And California Cities are Leading the Pushback
If you’ve hunted for apartments recently and felt like all the rents were equally high, you’re not crazy: Many landlords now use...
Fall is in the air, and that means California drivers are gearing up for seasonal price increases at the pump. A plan...
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CalMatters: Project 2025 Tells California to Report Abortion Data or Lose Billions in Medicaid
Project 2025, the 900-page conservative playbook for the next Republican president, issues an ultimatum for California: track and report abortion data to...
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The Legislature has foisted a $500 million compromise on affordable housing developers and one of the state’s largest construction unions. Not everyone...