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Wednesday, August 16, 2023

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THE HEADLINES

  • CalM: Southern California’s natural gas plants to stay open through 2026
  • OCReg: State Department of Public Health approves syringe exchange in Santa Ana over city’s objections
  • Fentanyl overdose deaths in SF could set record this year: Officials
  • California Democrats urge Gavin Newsom to give state worker union a contract and raises
  • SJMN: San Jose approves pay bumps for 4,500 city workers, avoiding major strike
  • Riverside City Councilmember Clarissa Cervantes apologizes for DUI arrest
  • SFC: S.F. corruption scandal: Commissioner resigns amid questions about loan
  • OCReg: Anaheim residents call for transparency, reforms at council’s first meeting following probe results
  • VOC: Anaheim Council Members Keep Fundraising Off Resort Interests Detailed in Corruption Probe
  • VOC: Anaheim Mayor’s Committee to Increase Transparency Won’t Have Public Meetings
  • CG: State of California Worked to Attract Chinese Foreign Direct Investment
  • CHP cracking down on retail crime theft across state
  • 51 arrested in crackdown on shoplifting teams in Fresno, including a Walmart Supercenter
  • Person armed with knife shot, killed by officers near Sacramento City College, officials say
  • LAT $: Student stabs classmate at South L.A. high school, police say
  • CalM: Track California Fires 2023
  • CalCoast: Carrizo Plain fire burns 225 acres
  • SFC: Dianne Feinstein’s bombshell new lawsuit alleges financial abuse over husband’s estate
  • California lawmakers call for constitutional convention on gun control
  • CG: Gov. Newsom’s Proposal to Restrict National Gun Rights, Parlayed Into State Resolution
  • FoxLA: Fewer than 1 in 5 people in California can afford a home, new data shows
  • AP: California judge pleads not guilty to murder in wife’s death
  • OCReg: Susan Shelley: How California’s leaders are responding to the Topanga Mall smash-and-grab robbery
  • CG: California on Strike
  • CG: Pro-Crime Legislature Looking to Make Fools of Lawful Citizens with BART Bill
  • CalM: Legislature is avoiding key issues, including worsening California fire insurance crisis
  • How Stupid Is the Georgia Anti-Trump Case?
  • OCReg: Joel Fox: Newsom is right. There shouldn’t be a live audience for a debate with DeSantis.
  • Hill: Trump, Foreign Policy and the Military Industrial Complex
  • Can you be fined for not sorting your trash? Here’s how Sacramento finds violators
  • Sacramento seeks to protect tenants from landlord harassment; latest measure sent back
  • Key document filed in attempt to recall Alameda Co. DA
  • CG: San Francisco Petitioning CPUC for Reconsideration Following Robotaxi Vote
  • SFC: Filthy pets. An amputated leg. Inside alleged ‘absolute neglect’ at Wag Hotels
  • SJMN: San Francisco airport employee accused of serial child molestation, discussing child ‘sex slave’ adoption and distributing sex abuse videos
  • SJMN: ‘Everyone called us liars for so long’: Former San Jose State athletic trainer pleads guilty to sexually assaulting athletes
  • FresBee: Big 12 says conference expansion done, for now. Is Fresno State out, or just on hold?
  • CalCoast: Lawsuit threatens San Luis Obispo over diluting Latino voters
  • LAT $: Frustration and criticism as L.A.’s D.A. struggles to reform sentencing
  • LAT $: La Habra condo owners see a gaping chasm where their greenbelt used to be
  • OCReg: Officials show off project in Huntington Beach to prevent flooding in storms
  • SDUT: Rent control will be back on the ballot next year. What could that mean for San Diego?
  • SDUT: Vista reverses course, will proceed with appraisal of proposed park
  • SDUT: Monica Montgomery Steppe takes early lead in whirlwind District 4 supervisor race

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