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New California law will require job postings to include salary ranges

Companies with 15 or more employees in California will be required to list salary ranges for all job postings under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom this week.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 29, 2022

Vacant stores will become homes more easily under new California laws

Local government officials say the laws undermine their authority and cut their tax base, but it's a long-sought win for affordable housing advocates, who say such sites are ready-made for apartments.

WEKU · Sep 29, 2022

Lyrics helped send these rappers to prison. Should California protect ‘creative expressions’?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Anerae Brown was on the rise as an up-and-coming rap artist when he joined a crime that turned deadly: the 1992 slaying of Meadowview community activist Patricia Harris.

Tribune News Service · Sep 29, 2022

California governor signs laws to boost housing production

Two new laws in California will let developers bypass local governments to build housing on commercial land

The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2022

New California law requires employers to report pay data. What does it mean for businesses?

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed the state's pay transparency law that will require California businesses to disclose compensation and demographic data for their workers starting next year.

Tribune News Service · Sep 28, 2022

California becomes first state to ban testing of harmful chemicals on dogs and cats for consumer products

The law goes into effect on 1 January

The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2022

Firearms groups challenge California gun law modeled after Texas abortion ban

Firearms groups have filed a widely anticipated legal challenge against a California gun law modeled after Texas' vigilante antiabortion legislation.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 28, 2022

Gavin Newsom for president? He’s impressing Democratic insiders with blasts at Republicans

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s public slugfests with the governors of Texas and Florida over immigration and abortion is generating important national attention. But perhaps even more importantly — assuming he has further political aspirations — his more aggressive demeanor is endearing him to influential Democratic insiders.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Sep 28, 2022

Editorial: Solitary confinement is torture. Gov. Newsom can limit it in California

Extended solitary confinement in California prisons was supposed to have ended, for all practical purposes, after a 2015 legal settlement in a case brought by plaintiffs who had been held in isolation for 10 years or longer in the security housing unit at Pelican Bay State Prison, near Crescent City.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 28, 2022

RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan challenges his parole denial

Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated presidential candidate Robert F

The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2022