Politics
Latest vote counts for Prop 32 raising minimum wage, Prop 36 addressing crime, Prop 33 expanding rent controls and more
California
Prop. 3 removes an outdated provision of the California Constitution that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman.
Proposition 4 called for spending $3.8 billion for water projects, including those that provide safe drinking water, water recycling projects, groundwater storage and flood control.
Opinion
California’s workers are struggling. Proposition 32 would give about 2 million of the state’s lowest-paid workers a modest pay raise.
California voters rejected Proposition 33, which would have given local jurisdictions in California vastly more power to regulate rents. Proposition 34, which remained too close to call, would limit how certain healthcare providers spend revenues from a federal prescription drug program.
Business
California’s voters typically lean heavily to the left. So, why did a minimum-wage boost fail?
Voters should approve Proposition 2 to provide $10 billion in bond money for California’s public schools and community colleges, many of which are overdue for repairs and upgrades.
Californians should formally reject a wrongful moment in our voting history and instead positively affirm that bigotry toward same-sex couples has no place in our state or its Constitution.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation calls this a “revenge initiative,” and we agree. Proposition 34 would change the rules for healthcare providers in ways that seem specifically designed to cut off the foundation’s tenant advocacy.
The legislators call the ballot measure an ‘expensive’ crime reform that will lead to more incarceration and the over-policing of underserved communities.