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Meet Californians stumping in swing states
California is a sure thing for Democrats in the presidential race. So some supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris are heading to Arizona and Nevada — two neighboring states where the outcome is uncertain and could help determine who wins. CalMatters’ Ana B. Ibarra spoke with volunteers from Los Angeles who traveled to Las Vegas []
A wrongful death case focuses on California mental health insurance
Many California families are still struggling to get mental health treatment four years after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a landmark law requiring health insurance plans to provide enrollees with all medically necessary mental health and addiction treatment. A new investigation by CalMatters mental health reporter Jocelyn Wiener found the system for appealing mental health denials []
Will Prop 36 mean more deportations?
Good morning, Inequality Insights readers. I’m Wendy Fry. Proposition 36, appearing on California’s 2024 ballot, would reclassify some retail theft and drug crimes as felonies after multiple convictions. It aims to reverse parts of Proposition 47, a 2014 law that reduced such offenses to misdemeanors in an effort to decrease prison overcrowding. Proponents have raised []
California Republicans embrace mail voting
Voting ends in California on Nov. 5, and nearly 3.3 million ballots had already been returned as of Thursday. It’s not shocking that more than half of them are from voters 65 and older, the most reliable voters. What’s more noteworthy is that the turnout so far is higher among registered Republicans (16.5%) than Democrats []