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After three-and-a-half months at home, California legislators returned to Sacramento Wednesday for a seven-month session where a budget deficit and the election will be top of mind.

Democrats in California and elsewhere are divided on the Gaza war. But there’s another bloody war, in Ukraine, and on that, key California members of Congress are also split from the White House.

Silicon Valley tech companies have been rocked with some boardroom drama these past few days, not long after top tech executives descended upon San Francisco during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit last week.

The commission is starting to put into effect the gas price gouging and transparency bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law last spring.

Up against an Oct. 14 deadline and with more than 700 bills on his desk heading into the weekend, Gov. Gavin Newsom decided the fate of bills — a lot of bills.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has decided the fate of two more high-profile bills — one on criminal justice and the other on public schools.

State lawmakers are passing many, many bills before they end the legislative session next Thursday. But under California’s system of direct democracy — and happening at the same time — advocates for various causes are trying to go straight to the voters when their elected representatives won’t do what they want.

It was a tale of two opposing events on parents’ role in California schools — though one was postponed because of Tropical Storm Hilary.

Today’s the deadline for bills to pass their first house in the California Legislature.

Just in time to go home for Memorial Day weekend, legislators bulldozed their way through a bunch of bills at the end of the week to beat the even bigger deluge next week, when there’s a Friday deadline to pass remaining bills through the house where they were introduced.

On an average day in California, about 18 people die due to overdoses from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. That works out to nearly four people every five hours.

If you need any more proof of labor’s power in Democratic politics, look no further than the joint conference of the California Labor Federation and the State Building and Construction Trades Council.