The press has a problem with independent voters. Specifically, the historic growth seen in independent voter registration that is making it more difficult to frame the electorate as divided between the two private political parties.

Their solution? Ignore it completely.

Californians pay the second-highest electricity rates in the nation, more than double the U.S. average, and those rates are climbing faster than inflation and rising more quickly than in almost every other state.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Governor Gavin Newsom is finding out the hard way that Californians, especially independents, are not eager to hand politicians the keys to redistricting again.