Dan Morain's Substack
Dan MorainPeriodic posts about California politics and policy, my next book, and the occasional scoop.
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California's Voter ID initiative goes national
If it wasn’t before, a California initiative to tighten voting requirements became nationalized when Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein, one of President Donald J. Trump’s large donors, contributed $6.5 million to the Yes-on-Proposition 3...
California's GOP falls onto even harder times
Note: This article first posted today at Capitol Weekly.
Note: This article has been updated with additional information about Steve Hilton’s fundraising.
The Republican National Committee is rolling in money, while the Democratic Nationa...
Sen. Alex Padilla and our most fundamental right
Alex Padilla was 33 with an American tale to tell, and I was part of The Los Angeles Times’ Sacramento Bureau covering the Capitol when we met 20 years ago. First, he had a personal story to impart.
I write about this now after Padilla att...
A pioneer details California's mental health care system origin story--and its flaws
In 1967, Gov. Ronald Reagan signed the Lanterman Petris Short Act, which sped the emptying of state hospitals. Areta Crowell lived the early days of that landmark law, as she detailed in a videotaped interview with me as part of Open Califo...
My next book
Many of you reading this note helped, asked about and otherwise encouraged me as I worked on a book about the mental health care system. The big news is that my publisher, the University of California Press, has set the publication date for...
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My book about the history and politics of our mental health system due in March 2027. Author of “Kamala’s Way, An American Life.” Worked at the LA Times, LA Her-Ex, SacBee and CalMatters.
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