California Lawmakers Deliver For Liberals On Climate Change, Minimum Wage

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California delivered on its reputation as a testing ground for liberal ideas as lawmakers wrapped up a legislative session that extended the nation’s most ambitious climate change programs, raised the minimum wage to $15 and toughened gun laws.
Lawmakers advanced top priorities for the labor, environmental, gun-control and anti-tobacco movements.
But Democrats who control both houses of the Legislature failed to address some of the maddening challenges affli