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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

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THE HEADLINES

  • LAT $: New head of LADWP will make $750,000 a year — nearly twice as much as her predecessor
  • SFC: PG&E’s CEO gets paid $17 million. Here’s how that compares to other utility leaders
  • SFC: S.F.’s fight against drugs and stolen goods in the Tenderloin opens new front: corner stores
  • CG: California’s Red Ink is Negatively Impacting Municipalities Large and Small
  • CG: NEW REPORT: California Ranks Among Bottom of 50 States for Financial Transparency
  • CG: President Biden Set to Sign ‘Pandemic Treaty’ with World Health Organization
  • SDUT: Is California still the world’s 5th-largest economy?
  • CalM: An ‘impossible situation’: Why California hospitals are suing a major health insurer
  • CalM: The Cal Grant expansion for California college students is in jeopardy as the state deficit grows
  • LAT $: ‘We will not move.’ Pro-Palestinian encampments, protests grow at California universities
  • CalM: Will less homework stress make California students happier?
  • CG: Legislation to Fast-Track Land Rezoning Supposed to Increase Affordable Housing Availability
  • LAT $: These are the California cities where $150,000 still buys you a home. Would you live here?
  • SJMN: More farmworker housing, high-density zones added to San Mateo County housing plan
  • OCReg: US agrees to $138 million settlement with Larry Nassar assault victims
  • CG: Tesla Lays Off 3,332 Employees In California
  • LAT $: Why Disney is doubling down on theme parks with a $60-billion plan
  • SFC: California proposal for speed governors in cars advances in Legislature — with one big change
  • SJMN: Chaotic Dublin prison closure leads to fighting, crying, cutting, inmates say
  • SacBee: He owes thousands in taxes. He’s got a controversial past. Why is Steve Garvey running for Senate?
  • OCReg: John Phillips: California’s fast food follies
  • OCReg: John Stossel: Capitalism versus racism
  • CG: CARB Now Trying to Ruin Rail
  • CalM: Key questions about California’s budget deficit remain unanswered as deadlines loom
  • OCReg: Los Angeles Metro has sacrificed safety on the altar of appeasement to anti-police activists
  • OCReg: Sen. Laphonza Butler’s disappointing six months in office
  • SacBee: Sacramento reveals amount paid to settle police shooting death lawsuit — 6 months later
  • SFC: ‘Scary, unsafe’: Nurses at S.F. General argue understaffing is at crisis level despite hiring
  • SJMN: San Jose mayor’s bodyguard attacked during interview
  • New stop signs coming to dangerous southeast Fresno intersection
  • Congressman Costa unveils legislation regarding regulation of biolabs
  • CalCoast: Under pressure, Grover Beach quits recycled water project
  • VCStar $: Lake Casitas reaches capacity, highest level since 1998
  • VCStar $: Former youth prison outside Camarillo stays empty
  • OCReg: Plan to kill Catalina deer using sharpshooters in copters is opposed by county
  • LAT $: New law promises retail workers in unincorporated L.A. County ‘fair workweek’
  • LAT $: AI-powered cameras installed on Metro buses to ticket illegally parked cars
  • LAT $: Los Angeles makes progress but earns 25th-straight F in air quality
  • OCReg: Yorba Linda residents have second chance to approve new housing plan
  • VOC: Laguna Beach Officials Consider Raising Taxes
  • VOC: Brea to Enforce Street Sweeping Requirements
  • OCReg: Nonprofit accuses Orange of using unrealistic parcels in its housing plan
  • Alvord schools name new superintendent
  • Transient sentenced for setting 2 fires in Riverside
  • SDUT: ‘Simply not fair’: Council members express skepticism of Gloria’s proposed budget cuts — and float exempting certain areas


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