Jay Dickenson The Committees on Appropriations are where so many bills go to die. Each year scores of them go to the Suspense ...

The Bearstar Trio A few years ago on this list we admittedly took the easy way out and decided not to try and choose from ...

This year we announce our sophomore class for the Capitol Weekly Top 100 Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is our way of ...

No. 100 Melody Gutierrez and Alene Tchekmedyian ​​Like Nick Gerda, these two intrepid Los Angeles Times investigative ...

No. 96. Stephanie Roberson Lobbyist Stephanie Roberson is a new entrant to the Top 100, but she’s hardly a newbie to the ...

No. 85 Chris Patterson PG&E Vice President of State and Local Government Affairs Chris Patterson has a reputation as a highly ...

No. 98 Leah Barros Barros has quietly become one the head of the most effective boutique lobbying shops in Sacramento, with a ...

No. 99 April Manatt Bipartisanship in the Legislature is like the probably apocryphal line credited to Mark Twain: “Everybody ...

OPINION - Lawmakers must heed the message being delivered loud and clear by California voters and reject Assembly Bill 446 ...

No. 76 Jennifer Pierre A newbie to this list, Pierre is hardly a neophyte when it comes to her role in California’s endlessly complex, often archaic and always political water system. Pierre is the ...

No. 91 Nick Gerda It is every investigative reporter’s dream to see their work have a real positive impact on society. For LAist reporter Nick Gerda, the dream is reality. Gerda’s dogged reporting on ...

No. 80 Ron Conway For most of his career Ron Conway has been far better known in board rooms than in legislative offices, but with AI regulation all the rage right now in the Capitol, the so-called ...