Politics
Latest vote counts for Prop 32 raising minimum wage, Prop 36 addressing crime, Prop 33 expanding rent controls and more
Television
The latest Disney+ documentary on the Beatles, premiering Friday, repurposes footage shot by Albert and David Maysles and focuses on the band’s first trip to America.
California
Proposition 6 would end forced labor in state prisons.
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.
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.
Prop. 3 removes an outdated provision of the California Constitution that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman.
Housing & Homelessness
A ballot measure that would have lowered the approval threshold for local bonds to support affordable housing and other projects failed.
Opinion
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.
Here’s how California voted on statewide measures in the 2024 election, including Proposition 36 on retail theft and fentanyl.
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.