John Chiang is known as the wonk in the contest to be California's next governor—but sometimes having a nuanced position can be hard to distinguish from failing to state a position at all.
This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer “one-stop vote centers”—an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last mid-term elections. The 2016 Voter’s Choice Act establishes the vote centers in Madera, Napa, […]
California may face its share of thorny policy problems and political conflicts, but for Republican gubernatorial candidate Travis Allen, the solutions are actually “very simple.”
Delaine Eastin has staked herself out as the most progressive Democrat running for governor of California. But in a wide-ranging discussion with CALmatters in our Sacramento office, the former state schools superintendent shared some views that break from that orthodoxy.
Joe Sanberg says he's not running for anything in 2018, but the Gen-X investor says he has an immediate political goal: organizing and campaigning to end poverty in California.
It wasn’t meant to be for Doug Ose. This morning, the former Republican congressman announced that he won’t be running for the governor of California after all.