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by CAPITOL WEEKLY STAFF posted 11.07.2024. CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: On Thursday, November 7, 2024, Capitol Weekly and the UC Student and Policy Center presented A Post-Mortem of the 2024 Election. We gathered a score of experts for a timely and informative review of the November 5 election, providing analysis, opinions and insight.
Rising Stars: Nikki Ellis, Cal Chamber of Commerce
Apr 4, 2023 · From her early interest in Latin America to her work on a recent trade mission to Japan, Nikki Ellis has long had a global outlook on life. As international affairs and media relations specialist for the California Chamber of Commerce, she loves that her work regularly brings her in contact with leaders from around the world.
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Sep 30, 2013 · Top of The Roundup: “As an energetic political wunderkind, he first took office in 1975 at age 36 as the nation’s youngest governor. Today, he’s an energetic, 75-year-old political silverback, in the midst of his third term and the nation’s oldest governor.”
The tangled web of California cardrooms and third-party …
Gaming tribes’ fight over ‘California Blackjack’ and TPPPs. For weeks now, Capitol Weekly has been reporting on a long-simmering fight between California’s gaming tribes and its cardrooms over “California Blackjack,” an obscure derivative of the popular table game invented essentially to circumvent state law. Under Proposition 1A, approved by voters in 1999, Native American tribes ...
Armed Black Panthers in the Capitol, 50 years on
Apr 26, 2017 · It all came about as a result of an American racial divide that existed 50 years ago and in some measure continues today. On the eve of the Summer of Love in San Francisco, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense began in 1966 as a …
The State of the California GOP, with Mike Madrid
Sep 25, 2023 · PODCAST: The California Republican Party Convention kicks off Friday in Anaheim with a luncheon featuring former president and current GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.While Trump is likely to get the lion’s share of the attention, other prominent GOP candidates including Sen. Tim Scott, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy will also be on hand throughout the weekend.
Under the radar: engrossing and enrolling - Capitol Weekly
Dec 23, 2016 · The legislation goes through a very important process called "engrossing and enrolling." Engrossing also occurs after each amendment to a bill.
The rent's too damn high: A conversation with AHF's Michael …
Feb 20, 2024 · CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: Michael Weinstein, is the president of the LA-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a sprawling international nonprofit with the stated mission of providing its 1.5 million global clients with “cutting-edge medicine and advocacy regardless of ability to pay.” Weinstein is also the driving force behind several statewide ballot measures, including two previously failed ...
The complicated birth of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act
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 seek to overhaul it in ways that reflect advances in medicine, and a …