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• LAT $: Former Los Angeles Dodger Steve Garvey weighs U.S. Senate bid
• CG: Former Los Angeles Dodgers MVP Steve Garvey Considers Senate Run
• LADN: Dodgers legend Steve Garvey considers US Senate bid, energizing beleaguered GOP in California
• California Spent $17 Billion on Homelessness. It’s Not Working.
• SFC: Judge robbed at gunpoint near Oakland courthouse, deputies say
• SJMN: Crime spree leaves three dead in South Bay
• SJMN: Men with rifles kill security guard at underground California casino, police say
• Suspect arrested after 3 killed, 3 injured in SB crime spree: Police
• SDUT: San Diego elected officials have gotten 5 raises since voters overhauled their pay. Here’s what they make, and how it compares
• SFC: Yet another home insurance giant stops writing new policies in California
• Reason: California Regulations Prevent Insurers From Accurately Pricing Wildfire Risk, so Now They're Fleeing the State
• SFC: GOP states challenge California’s authority to set emissions standards
• FoxLA: New Skid Row? Chatsworth residents fed up with homeless crisis
• $3.3 million renovated homeless shelter opens in Corona
• SFC: If you call 911 about homelessness in S.F., police might not respond. Here’s who may
• RV encampment in Marin Co. shows growing housing crisis in Bay Area
• OCReg: Prop 19.’s property tax transfer a ‘godsend’ for Southern California seniors
• SJMN: Bipartisan bill to make Big Tech pay publishers for news advances despite Meta threat
• CG: UC Berkeley/LA Times Poll Claims ‘Californians Fear Worsening Weather Swings Due to Climate Change’
• LAT $: Rare bipartisan support for reforming California’s ballot referendum rules, poll finds
• LAT $: Are you a renter in California? Here’s what to know about tenant protections lawmakers are considering
• Bill would allow Sikhs to ride without a helmet
• LAT $: California is closing its last youth prisons. Will what replaces them be worse?
• SDUT: Audit: San Diego OKs infrastructure projects without proper vetting, increasing costs and delaying completion
• OCReg: Man acquitted of igniting massive Holy fire in Orange and Riverside counties
• BreitbartCA: Professor Calls on U.N. Tribunal to Make Reparations to Black Americans
• Drag storytime returns to SB bookstore after 2022 event disrupted
• SFC: Can California be a refuge for trans people? Lawmakers hope so
• OCReg: Dave Min’s imploding congressional campaign
• Reason: Dont Bring Back Public Housing
• A Corrupt Progressive Reformer Goes Down in Flames
• Meet the New Twitter, Same as the Old Twitter?
• OCReg: It’s getting harder to see a dentist. Here’s how state lawmakers can help.
• CG: Lorena Gonzalez Out to Destroy Another Important Industry: Goat Grazing
• Sacramento jails violate consent decree, fail to observe suicidal inmates, grand jury says
• SJMN: Grim milestone appears for Bay Area tech layoffs
• LAT $: Banko Brown’s family files suit against Walgreens and the security guard who shot him
• Former SF DA Chesa Boudin lands new role at UC Berkeley law school
• Fresno councilmembers blast Bitwise furloughs, push to cancel $1 million city contract
• LAT $: Central Valley flooding offers birds bountiful water. Will it also poison them?
• Turlock police investigating series of paintball attacks on bicyclists and pedestrians
• Stanislaus could be penalized millions for high number of defendants found incompetent
• VCStar $: Port Hueneme finds its next police chief
• VCStar $: County starts clearing sexual assault kit backlog
• LADN: LAUSD high school graduations and college commencements in San Fernando Valley
• LAT $: Celebs dodged millions in L.A.’s ‘mansion tax.’ Meet the industry guarding their wealth
• LADN: ACLU seeks ban on head strikes by deputies in LA County jails
• OCReg: OC Fair to hire more than 1,000 seasonal, part-time employees
• VOC: Orange County Tallied 722 Total Homeless Kids Last Year, Real Number May Be 30,000
• OCReg: Home sales run 29% below average in Riverside, San Bernardino counties
• Traffic relief could be coming — if Riverside County voters want to raise taxes
• 3 more wrongful-death lawsuits target Riverside County jails
• SDUT: Should there be more homebuilding in unincorporated San Diego County?
• SDUT: Health coverage for 24,000 of San Diego County’s neediest residents could be in jeopardy
• SDUT: Lake Hodges reopens for boating and fishing after dam repairs completed

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