The most essential role of government is public safety. When state leaders, like Gov. Gavin Newsom, fail to fund what voters mandated, they fail that basic duty.

Two years ago, California would have become the first state to eliminate cash bail for jailed suspects awaiting trial. The law was challenged so it hasn't taken effect. Proposition 25 is a referendum ...

Proposition 15 is arguably the most consequential measure facing California voters on the Nov. 3 ballot. By creating a “split-roll” system that taxes commercial and industrial property differently ...

Colorado is just this close to getting a new election system. Not a reform of the current system. Not a “more of the same” system with a tweak or two. An entirely brand-spanking-new system that would ...

Proposition 25 would have made California the first state to end cash bail by allowing each county to use an algorithm to assess a person’s flight risk or likelihood of reoffending while awaiting ...

SACRAMENTO — Proposition 15 is arguably the most significant state measure on the Nov. 3 ballot. And that’s saying a lot because Californians will be voting on several very significant measures. With ...

For nine years, I begged Alameda County agencies to give my intermittently homeless and schizophrenic ward the care she needed to stay alive and well. Last September, some 12 years after I became her ...

The Kern County Board of Supervisors is set to accept an $8 million state grant to provide substance use and mental health ...

Most of us have been told since childhood that a bedrock principle of justice in our free society is that a person is innocent and cannot be deprived of freedom until proven guilty. That may be true ...

California voters will head to the ballot box in a few weeks to decide the fate of a two-part initiative spearheaded by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom that would overhaul the state's mental health ...