Author: CalMatters
CalMatters
has 4.4% among authors.
BS Score: 1.2%.
Articles analyzed: 11.
Words analyzed: 52,643.
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- By Marisa Kendall, CalMatters
- 6/28/2026, 5:00 PM
Negativity Bias 17.4% - Biased Writer Voice 11.3% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 8.3%
As this year’s legislative session speeds to a close, a handful of bills focused on the state’s homelessness crisis have made the cut so far. Though homelessness improved slightly last year, there are still an estimated 182,000 Californians with nowhere to call home. The issue is top of mind for many lawmakers in Sacramento, who are... more
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- By Kate Wolffe, Yue Stella Yu, CalMatters
- 6/27/2026, 6:00 PM
Negativity Bias 30.4% - Biased Writer Voice 24.4% - Framing Effect 13.6%
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California Forever, the tech billionaire-backed group that hopes to build a city from scratch on farmland in the outer San Francisco Bay Area, is lobbying state leaders to fast-track a massive shipbuilding deal that would kick-start its development after... more
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- By Ella Carter-Klauschie, CalMatters
- 6/22/2026, 9:30 PM
Anecdotal 15.8% - Overconfidence Bias 2.6% - Quote-first Misdirection 2.1%
Across California, every incarcerated individual taking a college course now has a tool those of us on the outside take for granted: a laptop. In the past three years, the prison system spent $23.2 million to distribute 30,000 laptops to all incarcerated students. Almost half of those went to the 13,000 inmates enrolled in community... more
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- By Anat Rubin, CalMatters
- 6/19/2026, 4:30 AM
Negativity Bias 27.9% - Appeal to Authority 20.4% - Framing Effect 18.6%
A new commission made up of legislators, public defenders, academics and advocates seeks to push California — one of just two states that don’t pay for basic public defense — to begin providing resources and enforcing minimum standards for county public defender systems. The California Independent Commission on Public Defense includes... more
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- By Kristen Hwang, CalMatters
- 6/18/2026, 11:47 PM
Negativity Bias 22% - Pessimism Bias 14.9% - Framing Effect 11.6%
A union wants California’s billionaires to rescue the state’s healthcare system. The billionaires have other ideas. On June 17, an initiative to tax the state's wealthiest residents qualified for the ballot, according to the secretary of state’s office, which verifies petition signatures. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has consistently swatted... more
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- By Rachel Becker, CalMatters
- 6/14/2026, 6:00 PM
Negativity Bias 20.2% - Hasty Generalization 15.6% - Framing Effect 11.8%
The state of California is walking back protections meant to keep destructive golden mussels out of Lake Oroville, one of the largest and most important reservoirs in the state. The move follows a new state-funded risk assessment that the invasive species poses a lower risk to the lake, which water managers say changes the state’s... more
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- By Jeanne Kuang, Jeremia Kimelman, CalMatters
- 5/31/2026, 6:00 PM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 17.8% - Negativity Bias 14.4% - Anchoring Bias 10.5%
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Campaign donations are both a measure of popular support and a sign of which candidates special interests believe they can influence. CalMatters analyzed campaign finance data in the California governor’s race. Here are five takeaways on where the money is... more
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- By Carolyn Jones, CalMatters
- 5/23/2026, 7:00 PM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 29.7% - Optimism Bias 23.6% - Negativity Bias 17.2%
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When Celestina Castillo filled out the ethnicity forms at her children’s school, she’d always check Latino and Native American. After all, the family is proud of both its heritages. But because of a loophole in the state’s data collection system, checking... more
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- By Wendy Fry, Sergio Olmos, CalMatters
- 5/15/2026, 7:40 PM
Negativity Bias 22.8% - Anecdotal 17.6% - Framing Effect 15.3%
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Six people died in California immigration detention centers over the past year as the crowded sites struggled to provide basic medical care, according to a new state investigation detailing conditions inside the facilities. The 175-page report released... more
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- By Maya C. Miller, CalMatters
- 4/25/2026, 7:00 PM
Negativity Bias 24.8% - Appeal to Emotion 11.2% - Framing Effect 11%
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Political persecution, threats of violence and the seizure of sensitive documents might sound like a plot line for a heist or thriller movie. For California election officials tasked with enabling participatory democracy, these are now everyday realities —... more