Rebecca Ruan-O’Shaughnessy is vice chancellor for educational services and support at the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. Previously, she was at Jobs for the Future, where she led ...

Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero is the 29th Chief Justice of California, making history as the first Latina to serve in this role. When she joined the California Supreme Court as an associate justice ...

Toks Omishakin is secretary of the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA). He previously served as director of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), where he managed a $15 ...

Tom O’Brien, until his 2025 retirement, served as Driscoll’s general counsel as well as its head of human resources and public affairs. He remains associated with Driscoll’s, a family-owned berry ...

Only a small number of mailed ballots are rejected for arriving late, but rejection rates have been rising in recent ...

The federal government has been a key partner in California’s water management efforts for decades. From weather forecasting and flood management to water supply, state and federal agencies have had ...

Meghan Fredericksen is the digital content associate at the Public Policy Institute of California. She uses digital content to reach key audiences across several social media platforms for PPIC. She ...

California’s housing crisis is usually measured in dollars: half-million-dollar starter homes and housing costs that eat up half a paycheck. But there’s another way to see the crisis—in years.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, 2026—Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton sit atop a crowded field of gubernatorial candidates heading into next week’s primary election. Most likely voters ...

California public schools are in the midst of a long-running trend of declining enrollment. Enrollment fell this past year by nearly 75,000 students. Since 2015–16, enrollment has dropped in all but ...

Rates of student homelessness among California’s K–12 students increased in nearly two-thirds of the state’s counties during the 2024–25 school year, according to the California Department of ...

In the past six years, 677,000 new housing units have been built in California. Over that same period the state population has barely budged. More homes for roughly the same number of people looks ...