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Three months after Gov. Gavin Newsom began easing the stay-at-home order meant to curb the coronavirus pandemic, the virus is raging — and the vast majority of residents are back to living under major government restrictions.

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) was among the groups requesting Gov. Newsom delay a scheduled wage increase through 2022 but it was announced last week that he is declining to exercise his authority in the matter.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced July 29 that tax credits had successfully provided needed economic relief to low-income Californians

Californians voting in November 2020 should reject the recently named Proposition 25, a ballot measure that, if passed, will replace the injustice of money bail with an even more discriminatory pretrial system, Human Rights Watch said today. 

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday the state would keep in place a planned jump in the state’s minimum wage to $14 an hour next year for larger businesses, saying it would help hard hit lower-income workers even as many companies struggle to survive amid the coronavirus crisis.

Laws limiting property tax payments and their rates of growth are not racist, despite what a local official in Maryland recently tried to claim as part of a failed attempt to weaken a long-standing property tax cap.

By Assemblymember James C. Ramos, a lifelong resident of San Bernardino County, who represents the 40th Assembly District and is the first California Native American elected to the Legislature and John Kabateck, the California state director for NFIB, the nation’s voice of small business since 1943.

With state lawmakers scheduled to return to Sacramento this week for a shortened session, business groups have expressed concern about several legislative proposals to expand workers’ compensation measures.

As federal lawmakers prepare to present new COVID-19 relief legislation that is expected to include temporary liability protections for businesses, a number of California organizations say they support such measures.

You may have seen the City of Placerville made news recently when the city council considered. then put off, a decision on whether to remove

A new report from supporters of a November ballot measure aimed at increasing property taxes on commercial and industrial property in California finds that more than 90% of the additional property tax revenue Proposition 15 would generate will come from just 10% of the highest value properties.

Supporters of a hotly debated California ballot proposal to change how commercial and industrial property is taxed said the measure would generate the vast majority of revenue from only the wealthiest properties and exempt most small businesses.