California has changed in the three decades since, a political and cultural transformation that is in many ways personified by Padilla’s career. In just a single generation, the political clout ...

Inside California Politics airs this weekend during the following times: KTLA: Sunday, June 22 at 5:30 a.m. KRON: Saturday, June 21 at 6:30 p.m.

(INSIDE CALIFORNIA POLITICS) — State lawmakers from both parties are calling out Governor Gavin Newsom and leadership in the legislature over a lack of funding for Proposition 36. The law, which ...

Democratic State Sen. Cathrine Blakespear expressed frustration over the funding battle on this week’s edition of Inside California Politics. “We just shouldn’t be playing politics with the voters’ ...

Historically, the annual process of writing a state budget has often stumbled over how much money California should spend on its public school system and its nearly 6 million students.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — A man was sentenced on Wednesday to 33 years and four months for the deadly shooting of a 10-year-old, Liliana Jimenez, in 2021, according to the Kern County ...

Supporters of Prop 36 say it promised safer streets and treatment, but without more funding, the law may fail to deliver what voters overwhelmingly approved.

No. Prop. 28 money must “supplement” and not “supplant” funding for arts education. For example, if you spent $1 million on arts education in the 2022-23 school year, you were expected to spend $1 ...

Who should pay for Prop. 36, California’s new tough-on-crime law? Gov. Gavin Newsom, who opposed the measure, did not include any money for it in his latest state budget proposal ...

Some California Republican lawmakers and law enforcement raised concerns over the funding of Prop 36. Texas defunds border wall Gina Gershon: ‘People like to cast me as a hardcore, motorcycle ...

Nikki Dobay, Brad Marsh & Colin Fraser unpack Prop 19 reforms, solar exclusions, and the Olympic case before the CA Supreme Court in this SALTy episode ...