Election 2022

Election 2022: Red Wave mirage

By Jessica Goodheart This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Dorian Warren was living less than a 10-minute walk from the U.S. Capitol and with his new baby […]


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Waiting in pain

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. On the surface, 2022 has been a significant year for proponents of access to more timely mental health care […]


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Have it their way

By Bobbi Murray This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. The fast-food industry is hard at work to reverse a landmark employment rights measure that Gov. Gavin Newsom […]


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Conflicting interests?

By Aaron Cantú This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. With Gov. Gavin Newsom set to sign a slate of bills boosting California’s fight against climate change, regulators are […]


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‘Care crisis waiting to happen’

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Sydney O’Connor’s clients have disparate needs. One, a double transplant survivor who is almost blind, requires assistance […]


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‘Crossing the Line’ for choice

By Danny Feingold This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Long before the June 24 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Lisa Caruso decided to tell the story […]


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Massive mess

By Andy Furillo This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. The moment may be at hand for Californians to turn the tide on a sea of plastic waste that […]


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Inflation targets California’s poor

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. When I met Amparo Ramirez in March of 2020, our conversation was very much of the moment. The […]


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California preps for the endemic

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. The lifting of California’s statewide school mask mandate, leaving local districts to decide for themselves how to approach […]



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California weighs ending mask restrictions in schools

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. It was almost on cue. First came California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement that the state was lifting its […]


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Most vulnerable left out of new COVID sick leave

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. The idea of reviving paid supplemental COVID sick leave in California is tremendously appealing. Among other things, the […]


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Supersizing bargaining power

By Bobbi Murray This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Fast food workers have been heralded by government officials, executives and some doctors as essential workers during the pandemic. But […]


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Gov. Newsom’s healthcare wins and losses

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2018 campaign for office was rife with decisive and promising language on health care. Newsom […]


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Single-payer in California?

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought all sorts of uncomfortable truths to the surface in California. Minority and lower-income […]