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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Eric He |Blanca Begert |Emily Schultheis |Tyler Katzenberger
SACRAMENTO, California – California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday presented himself as a defender of the state’s formidable economy while unveiling a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Emily Schultheis
LOS ANGELES — Rep. George Whitesides has spent years thinking about how to prevent out-of-control wildfires. Only days into his job as a freshman congressman from northern Los Angeles County, he returned to a region ablaze with exactly the kind of “megafires” he’s warned about. The Democrat, a former CEO of Virgin Galactic and chief of staff at NASA, made headlines in November by winning one of the most competitive House districts in the country.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Tyler Katzenberger |Lindsey Holden |Emily Schultheis
SACRAMENTO, California — California voters dealt a blow to the state’s decade-long experiment with progressive criminal justice reform by approving a tough-on-crime ballot measure and ousting a high-profile progressive prosecutor in the state’s most populous county. Preliminary results show Golden State voters overwhelmingly embraced Proposition 36, a statewide ballot measure to increase penalties for certain retail theft and drug crimes.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Emily Schultheis
It's been an unusual year for ballot measures in California — and that could lead to election night surprises across the Golden State. Paid advertising has plummeted compared to recent years, and some of the biggest players who typically communicate with voters have remained largely silent, due in part to an especially busy negotiating season that resulted in a record number of measures being removed from the ballot ahead of the June deadline to qualify.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Emily Schultheis
A ban on slavery and involuntary servitude seems like it should be an easy sell in a progressive state like California. So why does it look like voters may reject Proposition 6 next week? The measure, which would amend California’s state constitution to ban involuntary servitude in an effort to eliminate forced prison labor, faces no formal opposition. But its backers are struggling to explain it to voters with limited resources at their disposal.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Emily Schultheis
SANTA ANA, California — Noncitizens flocking to the polls to sway the presidential election is a favorite image conjured by Republican politicians to bolster their narrative about rampant election fraud. House Speaker Mike Johnson recently warned, without evidence, that there will be “thousands upon thousands of noncitizens voting,” enough to potentially “change the outcome of the election” in key swing states.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Emily Schultheis
Emily SchultheisOctober 24, 2024 at 12:01 AM·3 min readNearly three-quarters of the California electorate plans to vote for a high-profile ballot measure that would increase penalties for some theft- and drug-related crimes, according to a new poll released Wednesday. Seventy-three percent of likely voters said they would support Proposition 36, the survey from the Public Policy Institute of California found, compared with just 25 percent who plan to oppose it.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Emily Schultheis |Melanie Mason
LOS ANGELES — Residents of California’s biggest metropolis say homelessness is the issue that worries them most, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ready to spend more to address the problem. In the balance is Los Angeles County’s Measure A, which would extend and increase a county-level tax to continue funding the local government’s homeless services as well as affordable housing development, rent relief and resources to prevent evictions.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Emily Schultheis |Rachel Bluth |Will McCarthy |Lindsey Holden
When it first emerged last year, a California proposal to increase penalties for some drug and theft crimes triggered a soul-searching discussion over the type of punishment nonviolent offenders deserve. But as the campaign for the ballot initiative enters its final month, the debate has turned toward a more prosaic concern: what California can afford.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
politico.com | Emily Schultheis |Will McCarthy
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is among the highest-profile politicians in California who hasn't weighed in on Proposition 36. | APKEEPING A LOW PROFILE — How long can Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stay out of the debate over Proposition 36? Mayors in four of the five biggest cities in California have endorsed the tough-on-crime initiative, with San Francisco’s London Breed, San Jose’s Matt Mahan and San Diego’s Todd Gloria making it a key part of their political work this year.
