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Question: One time I helped a person drive home a car that could not achieve the speed limit. The road was two-lane and curved. I put on my emergency flashers, concerned that some speeding driver would come from behind. The only car around was a WSP trooper who pulled me over and made me turn off the emergency lights. I see slow-moving trucks with their emergency lights all the time. What giv...

CalMatters is dedicated to explaining how state government impacts our lives. Your support helps us produce journalism that makes a difference. Donate now. Good morning, California. It’s Monday, January 31. Concept vs. reality An aerial view looking west towards the Port of Stockton, as the San Joaquin River passes under Interstate 5 on Oct. 13, 2021. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters “It’...

1 of 1 Shown here, Bare Necessities Inc. organizers and representatives of local police from Branford, Clinton, East Haven, Guilford, Madison, North Branford and CT State Police Troop F (Westbrook) gather to promote the annual Law Enforcement Diaper Drive, February 1-February 15. Photo Courtesy Bare Necessities Inc. Shown here, Bare Necessities Inc. organizers and representatives of local pol...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo about the city's plan to require liability insurance for gun owners. Transcript MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Earlier this week, San Jose City Council approved a measure taking a new direction in this country's long-running effort to deal with gun violence. It's liability insurance. The council passed a law that would require gun owners to ge...

Former President Trump said late Sunday that he wanted former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election while highlighting congressional efforts to reform the Electoral Count Act. Trump, in a statement dispatched by his Save America PAC, pointed to the bipartisan effort to reform the Electoral College Act as proof that Pence did have the ability to ov...

Trump? Or the Constitution? The strongest case for the work of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and for that committee to move quickly to public hearings, is that former President Donald Trump continues to make it clear that he set out to undermine democracy, that he sees nothing wrong with having done so, and that he would do it again if given a...

Mail ballots seen here in a secure facility inside the Erie County Courthouse in November 2020. Pennsylvania’s mail voting law, known as Act 77, was ruled unconstitutional Friday by a state court after a challenge brought by Republicans, but it will remain in place for the time being as the Wolf administration pursues an appeal to the state Supreme Court. Here’s what you need to know about ...

Opening day in trial over Florida's voting law By GARY FINEOUT 01/31/2022 06:58 AM EST Presented by Floridians for Affordable Rx Good Monday morning. It starts — A highly-anticipated federal trial over Florida’s 2021 voting law kicks off today (remotely) as a long line of civil rights and voting rights groups try to convince a federal judge that the new measure discriminates against minoritie...

PiS leader Lech Kaczynski is in a bind because of his obstructive coalition partner United Poland. It was supposed to be the plan that would give the Polish radical rightwing government extra momentum to carry them from the pandemic to next year's general election. Instead, National Reconstruction Plan has turned into an empty promise that may cost it the election. All because the ruling coal...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cyrus Vance Jr, whose 12 years as Manhattan district attorney was notable for a criminal probe into Donald Trump's business as well as high-profile sex crime cases, is joining the law firm Baker McKenzie as a partner. Vance, 67, was named global chair of the firm's cybersecurity practice. He will also join the firm's North American litigation and gover...