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OPINION — No one knows when California’s next major earthquake will hit, but the state prepares for it anyway. We are now facing something even more seismic and unpredictable in artificial intelligence, and we are woefully unprepared. The next governor will tackle a long list of problems, but an AI agenda must be top priority because it touches nearly everything else and the pace of change is too fast for individual Californians to weather on their own.
Opinion Image by Maxiphoto, iStock Images. by TERI OLLE AND DON HOWARD posted 10.23.2026 Capitol Weekly welcomes Opinions on California public policy or politics. Please read our guidelines for opinion pieces before submitting an Op-Ed. Submissions that do not adhere to our guidelines will not be considered for publication. OPINION — No one knows when California’s next major earthquake will hit, but the state prepares for it anyway.
Last month in Sacramento, a handful of tech companies that shape what we buy, watch and see online killed a bill authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener that would have made life more affordable for Californians.
How much support do people actually receive from the social safety net? That’s the question that a recently released report from the University of Southern California’s Price Center for Social Innovation aimed to answer. The report, titled “Examining the Complex Social Safety Net for Low-Income Working Families,” explored what social programs are available to Los Angeles residents and how the support they receive from those programs varies as their wages increase.
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