Saturday, June 26, 2021
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State Budget Deal
SDUT: Newsom, lawmakers reach agreement on spending tax windfall in $262.6 billion state budget
- AP: California moves closer to budget deal as deadline looms
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Illegal Immigrant Benefits
SFC: Health care for undocumented seniors, $600 stimulus checks coming in next budget
- FresBee: ‘Fresno to turn the page.’ City to chip in public funds toward these immigrant initiatives
- SacBee: Undocumented adults over 50 to qualify for Medi-Cal benefits under California budget deal
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Public Employee Pay Day
Boom Times for Gov't Workers
SDUT: San Diego Unified agrees to 4 percent raise for educators, increase in staffing
- SacBee: California child care providers reach contract with state, secure 15% minimum pay raise
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Free Rent!
AP: California to extend eviction ban, pay back rent for tenants
- AP: EXPLAINER: California’s efforts to slow pace of evictions
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No Choice: Vax Mandate
SJMN: San Francisco takes COVID vaccine mandate to new level. Will others follow? - SacBee: Students sue over California university’s COVID vaccine mandate, saying shots could harm them
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Fire Season
SFC: Fire season is coming. One community doesn’t have money to fight it
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Bail Reduction
AP: Bail reduced for co-defendant in road-rage killing of boy - OCReg: Bail reduced to $100,000 for Wynne Lee, driver accused as accessory in road-rage death of boy
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Homeless Industrial Complex
LADN: LA city leaders take a step toward plan to get county’s homelessness efforts on the same page - VCStar $: Thousand Oaks to build city's first homeless facility
- OCReg: For homeless and advocates, pandemic brought chaos, some of it helpful. Now what?
- SFC: The battle over a homeless encampment in Sausalito has reached a critical moment
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OC Term Limits Scheme
VOC: Is Sacramento About to Block OC Supervisors from Putting Term Limits Extension on the Recall Ballot?
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Heat Wave
LAT $: Scorching weekend ahead prompts heat warnings in Southern California -
Water Supply
SFC: Giant rock wall built across delta river to protect state's water supply -
Lead Pipes
SacBee: New bill by Sen. Alex Padilla would replace every lead pipe in U.S. over 10 years -
Under the Dome
VOSD: Sacramento Report: A Life Raft for Cities Dealing With Sea-Level Rise
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FINALLY: Kamala Goes to Border
NR: Kamala Harris Snaps at Reporter: ‘It’s Not My First Trip’ to Border -
PPE Scam
LADN: Kaiser sues, says it lost $5 million in PPE scam -
Chinese Virus
NR: Another Lie from China about COVID-19 and the U.S. - Reason: Chinese Officials Are Obscuring the Truth About COVID-19
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The Golden Pen
Douglas Murray
NR: Fighting the Great Derangement of Our Times -
Steven Greenhut
OCReg: Progressive DA’s shake up tough-on-crime status quo
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Veronique de Rugy
OCReg: The insanity of new, expansive definitions of ‘infrastructure’ -
Michael L. Davis
OCReg: Carbon taxes better than assigning artificial political risk -
Sacramento Valley
SacBee: First new state office building in downtown Sacramento in nearly two decades opens
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Bay Area
SFC: Bay Area group sues Coca-Cola over plastic pollution ‘greenwashing’ - Reason: Critics Warned the Largest Tax Increase in San Francisco History Would Be Ill-Spent. It's Now Funding $60,000 Tents for the Homeless.
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East Bay
LAT $: Oakland City Council votes to reallocate $18.4 million from police funding -
South Bay
SJMN: San Jose Unified School District ends partnership with SJPD -
Central Valley
FresBee: Fresno ‘poised for greatness’ year after COVID began, says mayor at first State of the City - FresBee: COVID’s Delta variant reaches Fresno, Valley as local vaccination rates lag behind
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Central Coast
CG: Salinas School District Parents Exposing Radicalization Behind California ‘Ethnic Studies’ -
Ventura County
VCStar $: Thacher abuse survivors encouraged to come forwardnews -
Los Angeles County
LADN: LA County coronavirus cases inch upward again; health officials push testing, vaccines - SFC: L.A. sees rise in COVID cases, delta variant concerns officials
- LAT $: Garcetti appointee quits redistricting panel amid revelations about Facebook group
- LAT $: Sheriff’s Department ordered to release misconduct, use-of-force records in response to Times lawsuit
- LADN: NASA will dismantle two test sites at toxic Santa Susana Field Lab area
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Orange County
VOC: $8 Billion in OC Taxpayer Spending is Finalized with No Public Remarks from Supervisors
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Riverside County
PE: ACLU pushes Riverside Superior Court to end civil assessments on traffic tickets - PE: How do San Bernardino, Riverside county coronavirus death tolls compare?
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San Diego County
SDUT: San Diego County’s human relations commission says it’s ‘seriously disturbed’ about tortilla incident - VOSD: The Ongoing Border Restrictions, Explained
- SDUT: San Diego mayor, South Bay officials plead to reopen the border as vaccination efforts advance