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1 week ago | 
capitolweekly.net | Rich Ehisen |Brian Joseph
News Former Senate pro Tem Toni Atkins, photo by AP. by BRIAN JOSEPH posted 05.07.2025 We’re a long way off from the 2026 gubernatorial election, but 14 candidates – nine Democrats and four Republicans – have already kicked their campaigns to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom into high gear. Some are familiar names and faces; others are not.
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1 week ago | 
capitolweekly.net | Rich Ehisen |Brian Joseph
News by BRIAN JOSEPH posted 05.02.2025 Special interests, or as the California Secretary of State calls them “lobbyist employers,” paid lobbying firms more than $66 million to lobby state government in the first quarter of 2025, according to a Capitol Weekly analysis of lobbying firm reports.
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2 weeks ago | 
capitolweekly.net | Rich Ehisen |Brian Joseph
News Business in cannabis. Image by Yarphoto. by BRIAN JOSEPH posted 04.29.2025 When voters approved in 2016 to legalize the personal use of marijuana, it almost seemed like a foregone conclusion that someday California would emerge as an economic power within the burgeoning cannabis industry. The state, after all has been synonymous with weed .
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2 weeks ago | 
capitolweekly.net | Rich Ehisen |Brian Joseph
News Sky Rock Petroglyphs in Bishop California. Image by Bakstad.
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4 weeks ago | 
capitolweekly.net | Brian Joseph
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has introduced legislation ordering an audit of the California State Bar’s embarrassing rollout of its new exam earlier this year. In late March, Sen. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, amended a spot bill, SB 47, to order the State Auditor to conduct an audit of the February 2025 bar exam.
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1 month ago | 
stocktonia.org | Brian Joseph
In the clearest sign yet that tensions are thawing on sports gambling in California, leaders of DraftKings and FanDuel spoke at an Indian gaming conference this week about their desire to partner — not compete — with tribes to bring sports betting to the state. “There is no other way to do it,” said Jason Robins, CEO and co-founder of DraftKings, reflecting on the industry’s hard-earned lessons from the 2022 election.
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1 month ago | 
capitolweekly.net | Brian Joseph
News Image by liveslowbackground by BRIAN JOSEPH posted 04.01.2025 In the clearest sign yet that tensions are thawing on sports gambling in California, leaders of DraftKings and FanDuel spoke at an Indian gaming conference Monday about their desire to partner – not compete – with tribes to bring sports betting to the state.
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1 month ago | 
capitolweekly.net | Brian Joseph
News by BRIAN JOSEPH posted 03.20.2025 Private foster agencies are seeking $47 million through the state budget process after their primary insurer decided to stop covering them last fall. , the Nonprofit Insurance Alliance, which insured 90 percent of the 220 private foster agencies in California, announced that it would not renew coverage of the organizations.
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2 months ago | 
capitolweekly.net | Brian Joseph
News School cellphone ban policies. Image by wildpixel via iStock. by BRIAN JOSEPH posted 03.11.2025 In these divided times, limiting cell phone use in schools has emerged as an issue both Republicans and Democrats can get behind. But while these policies enjoy bipartisan support, enacting them may prove challenging.
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2 months ago | 
capitolweekly.net | Brian Joseph |Rich Ehisen
News Richard Grenell, photo by Associated Press by BRIAN JOSEPH posted 03.05.2025 The 2023 Netflix documentary series “Arnold” was not surprisingly cast as a celebration of its titular subject, but it could just as easily serve as a time capsule for a bygone era of Sacramento politics.
