california model

Contributor: Why is California losing good jobs to other states? It’s not rocket science
September 4, 2025
For a century, it worked, and brilliantly. The “California model” rested on massive investments in higher education, development of industrial zones in places such as the South Bay and...
Women’s prisons are rife with trauma. Can California set a new course at Chowchilla?
December 19, 2024
CHOWCHILLA, Calif. —  Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she could save them all. And it’s her job...