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March 13, 2026

Bear Essentials March 13th: Everyone wants a piece

March 6, 2026

Bear Essentials March 6th: Welcome to the Future

February 27, 2026

Bear Essentials February 27th: Mind the Gap!

February 20, 2026

Bear Essentials February 20th: The Future is a Multiverse

February 13, 2026

Bear Essentials February 13th: Time to update the operating system…

February 6, 2026

Bear Essentials February 6th: WHAT IF WE TRIED NOT BEING STUPID?

January 30, 2026

Bear Essentials January 30th: DC Hearts SF

Bear Essentials January 23rd: Build, build, then build some more

January 16, 2026

Bear Essentials January 16th: The Life Aquatic

January 9, 2026

Bear Essentials January 9th: Choose your own disaster

December 19, 2025

Bear Essentials December 19th: A Very Dumb Argument

December 12, 2025

Bear Essentials December 12th: Death by "Shall"

December 5, 2025

Bear Essentials December 5th: The Moo and the Moon

November 21, 2025

Bear Essentials November 21st: AI can’t fix our budget deficit

November 14, 2025

Bear Essentials November 14th: CHA-CHA-CHA-CHANGES!

November 7, 2025

Bear Essentials November 7th: EVERYTHING’S EXPENSIVE!

October 31, 2025

Bear Essentials October 31st: FISH, FARMS, AND FUELS

October 17, 2025

Bear Essentials October 17th: SMASHING THE SCARCITY SCAM

October 10, 2025

Bear Essentials October 10th: THINGS HAVE BEEN BETTER!

October 3, 2025

Bear Essentials October 3rd: RURAL CALIFORNIA BLUES

September 26, 2025

Bear Essentials September 26th: DON'T F WITH FRESNO...OR SQUIRRELS

September 19, 2025

Bear Essentials September 19th: WE'RE #1 (UNFORTUNATELY)

September 12, 2025

Bear Essentials September 12th: Bills, Bills, Bills

September 5, 2025

Bear Essentials September 5th: Ill Wind

August 29, 2025

Bear Essentials August 29th: Endless Summer

August 22, 2025

Bear Essentials August 22nd: 650+ days is not a "fast track..."

August 15, 2025

Bear Essentials August 15th: Bees, Burritos and Water Wars

August 8, 2025

Bear Essentials August 8th: This one stings...

August 1, 2025

Bear Essentials August 1st: Tired of Texas

July 25, 2025

Bear Essentials July 25th: Premium Panic, Burger Bounce

July 11, 2025

Bear Essentials July 11th: Ice, Ice, Baby - Too Cold.

July 7, 2025

Bear Essentials July 7th: A Generational Housing Win

May 26, 2025

Bear Essentials May 26th: Tiny Exodus, Giant Raises, Hidden Hazards

May 20, 2025

Bear Essentials May 20th: CA Summer: BYO Fire Extinguisher

Bear Essentials May 13th: Tariffs, Troops & Trains

June 6, 2025

Bear Essentials June 6th: What’s Blowing Up in California (Literally and Politically)

May 30, 2025

Bear Essentials May 30th: Engineer imports, Olympic anxiety and a 27-foot asparagus

May 23, 2025

Bear Essentials May 23rd: Cherry bust, car wars and class divide

May 16, 2025

Bear Essentials May 16th: Three Ex-Governors Sound the Alarm

May 9, 2025

Bear Essentials May 9th: We’re talking about actual grizzly bears here. (And the economy.)

May 5, 2025

Bear Essentials May 5th: There's a lot going on here...

April 25, 2025

Bear Essentials April 25th: Hollywood, Homelessness, and Hogwash

April 18, 2025

Bear Essentials April 18th: Tariffs, Salmon, and Student Homelessness

April 11, 2025

Bear Essentials April 11th: Palm Springs ♥️ Canadians (and more)

April 4, 2025

Bear Essentials April 4th: Rural California Voted Red. Now It’s Bleeding Green.

March 28, 2025

Bear Essentials March 28th: What happened to California's students?

March 21, 2025

Bear Essentials March 21st: Bright Flowers, Bleak Budgets

March 14, 2025

Bear Essentials March 14th: Rich Get Richer, Wind Gets Weaker, Asparagus Gets Weird

March 7, 2025

Bear Essentials March 7th: NIMBYs and Nutria

February 28, 2025

Bear Essentials February 28th: The best laid plans...

February 21, 2025

Bear Essentials February 21st: What a week!

February 14, 2025

Bear Essentials February 14th: It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world

February 5, 2025

Bear Essentials February 5th: Up your guac game. Also, build more housing.

January 21, 2025

Bear Essentials January 21st: Unfolding disaster

January 14, 2025

Bear Essentials January 14th: INFERNO

December 20, 2024

Bear Essentials December 20th: Nature strikes back

December 16, 2024

Bear Essentials December 16th: It's the economy stupid.

December 6, 2024

Bear Essentials December 6th: From Gold Rush to Bear Crush

December 2, 2024

Bear Essentials December 2: Reports of Trouble

October 25, 2024

Bear Essentials October 25th: What’s Happening Across California This Week

October 18, 2024

Bear Essentials October 18th: Did you see the sky?

October 12, 2024

Bear Essentials October 12th: Some are winning, others losing

October 4, 2024

Bear Essentials October 4th: This week on the news

September 27, 2024

Bear Essentials September 27th: What a week

September 20, 2024

Bear Essentials September 20th: Do you think the state is headed in the right direction?

September 13, 2024

Bear Essentials September 13th: When coyotes move in Copy

September 6, 2024

Bear Essentials September 6th: Winning the BBQ and sustainability battles!

August 30, 2024

Bear Essentials August 31st: Bill-a-palooza

August 23, 2024

Bear Essentials August 23rd: A White House with NCC policy…

August 16, 2024

Bear Essentials August 16th: Progress on housing?

August 9, 2024

Bear Essentials August 10th: Teacher’s Perks

August 6, 2024

Gov. Newsom highlights NCC advocacy

August 2, 2024

Bear Essentials August 2nd: Building behavioral health housing

July 26, 2024

Bear Essentials July 27th: California is winning (on some things)

July 19, 2024

Bear Essentials July 19th: Stay hydrated

July 19, 2024

Bear Essentials July 12th: Hot summer vibes

July 3, 2024

Bear Essentials July 3rd: Happy Independence Day!

June 28, 2024

Bear Essentials June 28th: How to get into CA state parks - for free!

June 21, 2024

Bear Essentials June 22nd: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Partner Feature - Sonia Campos-Rivera with UNITE-LA

June 8, 2024

Bear Essentials June 8th: How many homes did California build in the ‘60s?

May 31, 2024

Bear Essentials May 31st: Drinking toilet water – and other infrastructure innovations!

May 24, 2024

Bear Essentials May 24th: Aren’t you grateful to be a Californian?

May 17, 2024

May 17th: The Feds are Coming

May 10, 2024

May 10th: May Revise budget is in the air

May 3, 2024

May 3rd: Looking for long term solutions – not last minute fixes

April 26, 2024

April 26th Bear Essentials: Yes, we are getting high-speed rail to Vegas

April 19, 2024

April 19th Bear Essentials: Do you like data? Us too:

April 12, 2024

April 12th Bear Essentials: (Mostly) Good News Friday Copy

April 5, 2024

April 5th Bear Essentials: Are we looking at an Affordable Housing summer?

March 22, 2024

March 22nd Bear Essentials: It’s official - Prop 1 passed

January 3, 2024

Los Angeles Daily News: Gov. Newsom urges California voters to support Proposition 1

October 12, 2023

Mental Health Legislation: NCC with Governor Gavin Newsom

September 28, 2023

Tracy Hernandez appointed New California Coalition CEO; Jim Wunderman appointed Board Chair

September 25, 2023

Letter: NCC Support Letter for Building Homeownership - SB 684

September 1, 2023

Bear Essentials: Dig Into the Data

August 24, 2023

Bear Essentials: The Cost of Not Building Housing in California

Bear Essentials: News, Nature & Hurricane Hilary

August 11, 2023

Bear Essentials: A More Californian University of California

August 3, 2023

Bear Essentials: Celebrating Infrastructure Legislation Wins