Fight Over Gig Workers Persists Despite Win for Uber and Lyft
Last weekâs election produced a crisp result in at least one high-stakes contest: California voters approved a ballot measure that exempts companies like Uber and...
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Californiaâs 40-Year-Old Tax Revolt Survives a Counterattack
For 40 years, the legacy of Proposition 13, a landmark California law that limits property tax increases, has shaped state politics. The measure weathered various...
Flying From California To Chicago To Cast A Ballot; âI Didnât Want To Come Up Short By Not Doing Itâ
CHICAGO (CBS) â Like hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans, DeShaun Stansberry voted early. He went to his West Side polling place Monday morning. âI wanted...
Propositions and Races to Watch in California
ImageEarly voting, including voting by mail, in this election has shattered records in states across the country, including California, where more than 6.5 million ballots...
California Tax Revolt Faces a Retreat, 40 Years Later
OAKLAND, Calif. â In 1978, a Los Angeles businessman named Howard Jarvis led an insurgent campaign to pass Proposition 13, a ballot measure that limited...
The Fight Over Absentee Ballots Intensifies Around Drop Boxes
From lawsuits by the Trump campaign to a decree from the governor of Texas â to the sudden appearance of boxes falsely labeled âofficialâ in...
California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes Around State
The California Republican Party has admitted responsibility for placing more than 50 deceptively labeled âofficialâ drop boxes for mail-in ballots in Los Angeles, Fresno and...
âStaggeringly Highâ: U.S. Jobless Claims Remained Elevated Last Week
Applications for jobless benefits remained high last week, even as the collapse of stimulus talks in Washington raised fears of a new wave of layoffs....
Deadly fires rage through northern California forcing tens of thousands to evacuate
California firefighters on Tuesday battled a wind-fueled wildfire that had exploded in the northern California wine country, prompting tens of thousands of evacuations. A second...
California braces for dangerous heat as wildfire battle continues
California is bracing for another dangerously warm weekend, with dry winds, parched vegetation, and triple-digit temperatures threatening to ignite new fires and complicating containment efforts...