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California Streaming is the Golden State's home for common-sense political commentary. We cut through the noise and break down the articles and stories shaping California—from Sacramento's latest policy moves to local battles over taxes, housing, crime, and education. If you're a common-sense Californian tired of one-sided coverage, or just someone who wants to hear the other side of the debate, pull up a chair. We bring the analysis, the pushback, and the perspective you won't find in mainstream California media. New episodes regularly.
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072: Sacramento's Failing Audit Report Card and Fleeing Billionaires
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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071: Paper Bags, Pork Barrels, and Regulatory Madness
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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070: Newsom's Undeclared Million Dollar Gift; CA Millionaire Tax; Mortgage & Rent Issues
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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069: Protests/Riots; Defund the Police; COVID Updates
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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068: November Elections; COVID; Mail-In Voting
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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067: COVID Updates; Newsom's Presser; Constitutional Rights
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Coronavirus Special
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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065: State of the State; Prop 13; Price Gender Discrimination
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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064: Prop 13; AB5; Illegal Immigration Healthcare; State Pharmacies; Bullet Train Update
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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063: Vox's 2020 Democratic Platform Guide (Breakdown)
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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062: CA Can't Prohibit Trump from Ballot; CA Public Banking; Our Miserable Cities
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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061: Trump's Trip to California; Newsom Orders Public Pensions to Invest in Green Stocks; Single-Family Zoning
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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060: CA Will Pay for Community College Tuition; Changing the NCAA Rules; Ethnic Studies Graduation Requirement
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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059: Los Angeles & Cheap Solar Power; Collapsing Recycling Centers; CA Pensions Grew 6x the National Average
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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058: Gavin Newsom Rent Control Bill; Push for Weaker Reading Requirements in Schools; Prop 13 in Jeopardy
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Aug 31, 2019 |
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057: CA's Marijuana Black Market; Google Insider Leaks Hundreds of Documents to DOJ; Do CA Schools Really Need More Money?
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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056: CA Wipes Out $58.6M in Student Debt; Parents Can't Afford Child Care; Berkeley Bans Natural Gas
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Aug 03, 2019 |
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055: CA's Politically Powerful Unions, Crush Share Economy; CA Worst State to Retire; Electric Cars
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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054: Bad SF Laws Worsen Homeless Crisis; LGBT Activists Demand Firing of UCSB Professor; CA Ranks Last in Business Friendliness
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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053: Diving into California's $215 Billion Budget
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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052: Union Sues Over Silicon Valley Housing Project; High Gas Taxes; CA Dem 2020 Policy Goals
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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051: Background Checks on Ammo; Limiting Facial Recognition Tech; CA Ranks Terribly in Childcare
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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050: California Democratic Party State Convention Analysis
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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049: CA Bill Limits Interest Rates to Fix Poverty; Bill to Cap Rent Increases; Two New School Tax Hikes for the 2020 Ballot
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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048: California's Poverty Puzzle; CA Has Slowest Population Growth on Record; Uber & Lyft Employment Status
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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047: CA Bill Aims to Appoint Public Health Vaccination Official; Police Deadly Force Bill; Nepotism in CA Government
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May 18, 2019 |
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046: Minimum Wage Hikes Are Killing Jobs; CA Investigating High Gas Prices; New Liberal Legislation
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May 09, 2019 |
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045: CA Law Enforcement Agencies Resisting Sanctuary Laws; Newsom Halts Deal Penalty; Bill Attempts to Force Trump to Release Tax Records
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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044: It's Tax Time; CA Looking to Ban Small Hotel Shampoo Bottles; CA Struggles with How To Charge Wildfire Costs
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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043: Diesel Trucks Could be Eliminated in CA; Weed Tax Shortfall & Laffer Curve; Solving CA's Housing Crisis
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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042: SCOTUS won't Intervene in San Diego Pension Case; CA Threatens Catholic Confession; Cannabis Cash and Bribery
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Mar 31, 2019 |
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041: Students Suing Colleges for Admission Scandal; CA Considering Right to Repair; Tech Industry Lacks Empathy
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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040: CA Wants $100B Towards Clean Energy; DMV Audit Over Voter Fraud; Illegal Gun Ownership
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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039: CA Supreme Court Rules on CalPERS; Student Loan Legislation; Bryce Harper Says CA Taxes Are Too High
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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038: Proposed Anti-Soda Bill; Berkley Wants to Boycott Amazon; Ridiculous Public University Positions
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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037: Bullet Train Slow Down; Birthright Citizenship Businesses; Tax Receipts Are Down
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Feb 23, 2019 |
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036: CDCR's Rehab Programs are a Failure; LA Mayor Garcetti's FBI Probe; LGBT Textbooks in Elk Grove School District
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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035: CA Wants to Pay College Athletes; SCE Sues Santa Barbara County; Huntington Beach Housing Law Suit
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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034: Kamala Harris is Running for POTUS; Newsom Appoints CA's First Surgeon General; HBJ Bans the Use of S/He Pronouns at Meetings
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Feb 02, 2019 |
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033: CA Crime Rates Up; CA Bans Gender In Car Insurance Premiums; Newsom Wants to Tax Drinking Water.
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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032: SF's Budget Problem; Broke School; Extending Healthcare to Illegal Immigratns
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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031: CA Wants to Make Community College Free; Receipt Ban; Dealing with the End of Obamacare
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Jan 12, 2019 |
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030: CA Has Over 1,000 New Laws in 2019
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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029: We're Comparing Ballots From 1988 and 2018 in this End of the Year Episode!
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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028: SB-50 Probably Won't Fix the Housing Crisis; CA GOP Says It's Facing Major Problems; LA County Sheriff Tells Top Staffers to Remove Their Rank
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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027: Legislator Proposing More CA Gun Taxes; The Strong CA Teachers Union; Homeless Voter Fraud Scheme on LA's Skid Row
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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026: Californian's Taxes Going to LeBron James Movie; Why Do We Build In Fire Zones; McKesson May Leave CA for TX
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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025: Judge rules in favor of Trump; CA fights with Trump Over Clean Vehicle Rules; CA to Allow Thousands of Criminals with Life Sentences to Seek Parole
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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024: $4 billion on Medi-Cal; Gov. Brown gets a ‘D’ on fiscal policy; Cal State Fullerton’s Southern California Financial Forecast
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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023: Mid-Term Election Results
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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022: Trump Defies CA Senators with 9th Circuit Judges; Plan to Increase Property Tax on Businesses; CalPERS Has a New President
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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021: K-12 Report Shows CA Schools Deficient; 200k Drivers Set to Lose Carpool Lane Privileges; Passenger Rail Project Between SoCal and Las Vegas
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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Bonus: Interview with Secretary of State Candidate Mark Meuser
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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020: Customers to Pay for PG&E Wildfire Costs; Verizon Throttled Fire Department's Data; CA to Legalize Sales of Homemade Food
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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019: Ballot Proposition Voter Guide
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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018: Safe Injection Sites; In-N-Out Burger Boycott; California's Attack on the Gig Economy
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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017: Mandated School Start Times; CalTrans Stops Traffic to Campaign; New School Sex-Ed Curriculum
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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016: Central Valley Officials Push to End Oil Production; Legislature Tries to Ban Silencing of Sexual Harassment Victims; US Treasury Blocks CA Attempt to Dodge SALT Tax
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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015: CA Reservoir Project in Trouble; More Firearms Restrictions; CA Could Require Woman in Boardrooms
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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014: CA Restaurant Soda Ban; Inmate Firefighters; Census Immigration Qestions
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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013: Eliminating the CA Bail System; DMV Wait Times; Who is Kevin de León?
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Aug 24, 2018 |
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012: Federal Taxpayers Subsidizing CA Housing; 9th Circuit Sides with Gun Rights; UC Budget Crisis
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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011: Court Reviews the CA 3 State Plan; Illegal Immigrants Allowed to Vote in SF; Proposition 12
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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010: Chumash Indians vs. Local Government; CA Democrats Don't Support Feinstein & CA Law Could Change Police Use of Force Procedures
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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009: Can't Delete Negative Yelp Reviews; SF Homeless & the Soda Tax
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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008: Public Employee Unions; the Marijuana Black Market; Ridiculous Bullet Stamping Law
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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007: Hollywood Tax Incentives; Consumer Privacy Measure & CA is Suing Trump Over the Border
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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006: The Bullet Train; Rent Control & Google Tax
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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005: Stockton's Universal Income; Governor Approves the California Budget; Elon Musk Upset About CA's Cap & Trade
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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Bonus Episode: Breaking Down the Three California Plan
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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004: The 40th Anniversary of Proposition 13; PG&E's liability in the Santa Rosa fires; State backed banks for marijuana
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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003: California Net Neutrality, the Plastic Straw Ban, Student Loan Debt
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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002: NFL Kneeling Rule. Independent Voters Now Outnumber Republicans in California, the Border Wall
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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001: California June Primaries, Propositions, Mandated Solar Panels, Electronic License Plates
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May 30, 2018 |