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by CAPITOL WEEKLY STAFF posted 11.11.2024. On Nov. 7th Capitol Weekly and the UC Student and Policy Center hosted a post-mortem of the 2024 election that featured three issue-specific panels conducted over Zoom and a live keynote panel. All featured some of the brightest and most experienced political minds in California.
Under the radar: engrossing and enrolling - Capitol Weekly
2016年12月23日 · The legislation goes through a very important process called "engrossing and enrolling." Engrossing also occurs after each amendment to a bill.
Capitol Weekly Interview: Susan Talamantes Eggman
2021年9月20日 · She started her PhD program in 1997, when Oregon’s ground-breaking end-of-life law — known as the Death with Dignity Act — had just taken effect, and she worked as a medical social worker with patients in hospice care at the University of Oregon Hospital (now Oregon Health and Science University, a trauma center and teaching hospital).. Her mother, …
The fall and rise of Roger Niello - Capitol Weekly
2023年1月30日 · When Roger Niello left the California Assembly in 2010, he figured his time in elected office had run its course. After all, the year before he had committed the most unforgivable of sins for a Republican of the day: He was among six of his fellow GOP colleagues who voted for a budget that included tax hikes, drawing the wrath of his party’s most vocal anti-tax contingent.
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 …
The rent's too damn high: A conversation with AHF's Michael …
2024年2月20日 · 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, …
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California Conferences: A quarterly series hosted by Capitol Weekly,examining critical public policy issues. Each event includes bipartisan panels, a keynote presentation and is filmed for later broadcast online. For more information on any events call Capitol Weekly at 916 444 7665. Upcoming events: Capitol Weekly and the UC Student and Policy Center present
The State of the California GOP, with Mike Madrid
2023年9月25日 · 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 …
Open California - Capitol Weekly
Open California is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization formed in 2012 to continue – and expand on – the important public policy work done by Capitol Weekly. Our Mission is to inform, enlighten and educate Californians about public policy and state governance, and to provide a platform for engagement with public officials, advocates and
Real change proves elusive in mental health care system
2021年11月10日 · Crippling the efforts for fundamental change is the Legislature’s apparent inability to pass major legislation that significantly alters the 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS), which has dictated California’s mental health policy for more than 50 years.