Jeremy B. White

1 day ago | politico.com | Jeremy B. White |Dustin Gardiner |Lindsey Holden

California lawmakers are fighting over housing policies that proponents say are needed to increase the state's housing supply more quickly. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP HOUSING STALEMATE: Nothing unites — and divides — California Democrats quite like housing. Everyone agrees homes and rent are too expensive. (Indeed, housing and homelessness were resoundingly the top issues for California voters in a recent POLITICO poll).

1 week ago | politico.com | Jeremy B. White |Dustin Gardiner |Blake Jones

Dustin Gardiner is co-author of POLITICO's California Playbook. As California Playbook co-author, Dustin takes readers inside the lively arena of Golden State politics. He specializes in coverage of the San Francisco mayor and its board of supervisors. Dustin has also helped lead reporting on the state’s congressional swing districts and its ongoing battle to address the housing crisis. He has covered state and national politics from California, Arizona and D.C. for 16 years.

1 week ago | politico.com | Will McCarthy |Jeremy B. White |Emily Schultheis

THE LAST CHIP AT THE BARGAINING TABLE — A dispute over the labor rights of rideshare drivers gave California its all-time most-expensive ballot campaign. Five years later, unfinished business from the Prop 22 contest could either inspire a costly lobbying tug-of-war in Sacramento, or trigger a new round of legislative dealmaking over the place of gig workers in the state’s economy.

1 week ago | politico.com | Jeremy B. White |Christine Mui |Camille von Kaenel |Alex Nieves

SACRAMENTO, California — California leaders are still bracing for widespread damage despite President Donald Trump’s tariff reprieve. Major industries that power the nation’s largest economy — from almond growers counting on foreign buyers to Silicon Valley giants reliant on Chinese components — are still tremoring from Trump’s shifting trade policies. The economic uncertainty also threatens to tank the stock market, drying up state tax revenue for schools and health care.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Blake Jones |Jeremy B. White |Dustin Gardiner

Then-Assemblymember Evan Low speaks on the floor of the Assembly at the Capitol in Sacramento, California, on June 10, 2020. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP THE BUZZ: OUT OF BOUNDS — Adam Silver could soon slap a huge fine on a Bay Area resident — and it’s not Draymond Green.