OPINION - Making a correction the commercial potential of cellulosic biofuels is hard, but not making one all but ensures a ...

While redistricting has taken center stage for the moment, when lawmakers return next week they will also have a full package ...

Lobbyist, professor, and author Chris Micheli offers a quick look at what’s coming up this week in Sacramento.

Opinion - Rideshare gave me the flexibility to continue pursuing educational passions while serving my community in a new way. Assembly Bill 1340, which is currently moving through the State ...

In a significant policy shift spanning nearly two decades, 30 counties in California – including all of the larger counties, with an estimated 80 percent of the state’s population – have now adopted a ...

For more than five decades, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act has been the foundation for how California treats or fails to treat people with severe mental illness. Now, legislators from both parties ...

Decades of underinvestment in schools, culture battles over bilingual education, and dizzying levels of income inequality have pushed California to the bottom of the pile, making it the least literate ...

In just a few months, Capitol Weekly will unveil its 16th annual Top 100 list recognizing the most influential members of the Capitol community. As we began researching this year’s list, however, we ...

With more and more lobby days taking place in the California State Capitol (and its Swing Space), law professor and lobbyist Chris Micheli is joined today in a special edition of the Micheli Files by ...

OPINION – Every afternoon, thousands of California students are turned away from Expanded Learning Programs (ELPs), not because they don't want them, but because there’s no room for them. This is ...

While migration to the new “swing” office at 10th and O is already underway, opponents have still been trying to put a halt to the construction project. The most vocal opponents are environmentalists, ...

News that Attorney General Rob Bonta had ruled in early July that daily fantasy is illegal in California sparked a flurry of one-day stories about the opinion and reactions to it, most notably Gov.