Anita Chabria is a California columnist for the Los Angeles Times, based in Sacramento. Before joining The Times, she worked for the Sacramento Bee as a member of its statewide investigative team and previously covered criminal justice and City Hall.
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California politicians have asked Taylor Swift to cancel her L.A. tour dates this week in solidarity with striking hotel workers. It’s an impossible ask, but one the singer can’t ignore.
Michelle Mitchenor’s fetus had fatal defects. Her journey to an abortion reflects on America’s conservative slide that has further stigmatized reproductive choices.
A bill that would increase penalties for those who traffic minors has been flattened to a false debate over whether legislatures support pedophiles over protecting kids. That false narrative hurts victims.
Jill Harrison’s daughter Ciara was murdered in 2019. Now Harrison is trying to help the man who killed her child, fighting for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to change San Quentin.
The largest study in decades of California’s homelessness crisis finds that older seniors priced out of housing are now a substantive share of those living on the streets.
The insurance companies refusing to write new policies for California homeowners is a wake-up call. Climate change must be part of the conversation about how and where we build.
Anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is on the rise across the nation and in California, couched in rhetoric about protecting kids. It’s a page from an old but powerful playbook.
The migrant-dumping stunt in Sacramento is just the latest sign of the Florida governor’s win-at-any-cost presidential strategy. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is happy to engage.
The stabbings of three people in Davis could be tried as a death penalty case. But would the Yolo County D.A. go for capital punishment in a state where it is effectively banned?
A group of Black customers is suing Wells Fargo, claiming the bank slow-rolled or denied them loans based on race.