The United Farm Workers (UFW) union will get a new president next month after Arturo Rodriguez, the current president, decided to relinquish the job after 25 years. Teresa Romero will be the third president of the UFW and the first ever female president of the organization. Rodriguez had been the president of the organization since […]

By Luis Alvarado California is home to the some of the most progressive farmers in the world. Despite enormous odds and pressures – drought; climate change; rising land, gas and energy costs; wildfires; labor shortages; regulatory burdens; relentless attacks from pests and disease – the state’s farmers soldier on, providing fresh fruit, produce and dairy […]

In July, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that requires counties to prepay postage for mail-in ballots for elections. The bill, AB 216, was signed in the hopes of increasing voter turnout during elections. The bill was proposed by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez as a way to remove what she believed was an obstacle to voting. […]

Last month, the California State Senate approved a proposal, Assembly Bill 807, to ask voters to repeal daylight savings time in November and give lawmakers the power to adjust the time with a two-thirds vote. Assemblyman Kansen Chu, who introduced the proposed bill, stated, If signed by the governor, the bill will bring California closer […]

Fox & Hounds By: Michael Vallante This year, there is a reason to celebrate on April 17th: the simpler, fairer, tax system is making a real difference for families and businesses. As a result of the Tax Reform Act passed last year by Congress, Americans are more optimistic about the economy than they’ve been in […]

 Farmworkers should have the right to be represented. If abandoned by a union, farmworkers deserve the right to vote. The right to have their voices heard and the right to be represented. Don’t take this choice away from them. Farmworkers deserve to have the same rights and protections as every other worker.

California has invested billions of public dollars over the past decade into studying stem cells and it has finally received its first royalty check for its investment. The City of Hope medical research center sent over $190,000 to the State Treasurer’s Office, which was received in December, related to research funded by the California Institute […]

Fox & Hounds By: Annette Levi and Serhat Asci While urban and rural California may be miles apart geographically and politically, they could not be more interdependent economically. That’s what we found with a recent research project that determined nearly $3-billion of Southern California’s urban economy is directly linked to the state’s strawberry farming operations. […]

The state’s electric vehicle market did considerably well last year and will continue to grow this year. California is on pace to reach 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles by 2025, which is earlier than the target set by Gov. Jerry Brown. This is according to a report released last month by Next 10, a Silicon Valley-based […]

In late January, the first formal state audit of the California bullet train project was authorized by the legislature’s joint audit committee. The audit was authorized after the rail authority disclosed that the cost of building the first 119 miles of track in the Central Valley would cost $10.6 billion, which is a 77 percent […]