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Emily Hoeven

Emily Hoeven writes the daily WhatMatters newsletter for CalMatters. Her reporting, essays, and opinion columns have been published in San Francisco Weekly, the Deseret News, the San Francisco Business Times, the Flathead Beacon, the Daily Pennsylvanian, and the Mercury News. Emily graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and French and studied English at the University of Cambridge, England as a Thouron Summer Prize fellow. She speaks French fluently and spent a year teaching English in Châteauroux, France.

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Carlos Mila, left, helps Heather Washington fill free sandbags at the City of Redwood City Public Works Services in Redwood City, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023.

Storms bring much-needed rain but strain infrastructure

At least two deaths. Tens of thousands of Northern California homes and businesses without power. At least three breached levees in the Sacramento area. Road and freeway closures, landslides, mudslides, floods, fallen trees....
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Quake raises many concerns

The 6.4 earthquake last week in Humboldt County raises many concerns as to the preparedness of the state in advance of the big one.
Minority Floor Leader James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, addresses the media during a press conference calling for a suspension of the state’s gas tax on March 14, 2022. (Photo: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)

GOP demands emergency action on taxes, crime

California Republicans are zeroing in on the three issues on which they say Democrats may be most vulnerable heading into the Nov. 8 election: The rising cost of living, crime...