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Thursday, May 2, 2024

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THE HEADLINES

  • LAT $: Crime is a ballot ‘vulnerability’ for California Democrats after Schiff, Bass break-ins
  • SJMN: Evan Low heads to November election as Joe Simitian is knocked off the ballot
  • SFC: ‘Everyone is getting squeezed’: California electricity prices now second-highest in U.S.
  • SJMN: CPUC voting soon on $24 fixed monthly charge for California electricity bills
  • CG: Save Us, You Bastards: Pro-Palestine Students Demand Cops Protect Them
  • CG: 15 Injured, 1 Hospitalized Following More Gaza Protests At UCLA
  • OCReg: Students say will hold ground at UC Irvine pro-Palestinian encampment
  • AP: Police move in and begin dismantling pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ encampment at UCLA
  • Pro-Palestinian UC Riverside students’ sit-in enters its third day
  • CG: LA City Council Approves Evaluation of Creating a Department Of Homelessness
  • SacBee: CA bill taxes Big Tech to pay for tax credit for news orgs
  • SJMN: As Californians mitigate wildfire threats, why is there still an insurance crisis?
  • SFC: Thousands of homeowners in this wealthy Bay Area city are set to lose insurance: ‘No good options’
  • LAT $: As court overturns a lot-splitting law, SB 9, one early adopter asks why
  • OCReg: 4.1-magnitude quake centered near Corona jolts Southern California
  • AP: Captain faces 10 years in prison for fiery deaths of 34 people aboard California scuba dive boat
  • SDUT: California’s oil watchdog calls out industry for high gas prices; refiners push back
  • CalM: California politicians face rampant threats. Some want to use campaign cash for protection
  • SacBee: Mom says she has new evidence in priest sex abuse case. But California’s AG’s office denied her request
  • CalM: California officials won’t say why it would cost ‘billions’ to protect prison workers from heat
  • OCReg: Laguna Beach survey setting the stage for higher taxes
  • OCReg: Steve Garvey and other statewide GOP candidates have no shot until Top Two is repealed
  • OCReg: New battlegrounds emerge in California’s endless housing conflict
  • CalM: Lagging revenue continues to drive California budget deficit as deadline nears
  • OCReg: Los Angeles zoning police know how to kill a party
  • OCReg: University chaos is the direct consequence of prioritizing collectivism and identity politics
  • SacBee: President Biden expands Berryessa Snow Mountain monument to protect Molok Luyuk ridge
  • SacBee: DA’s lawsuit against Sacramento over homeless camps could be tossed. Here’s why
  • How many people in encampments accepted mental health help in Sacramento County?
  • SFC: Here’s how S.F.’s mayoral candidates want to tackle the city’s notorious housing crisis
  • SFC: Data shows what state police have done in S.F. after yearlong drug crackdown
  • SFC: Feds, state accuse S.F. of dumping sewage into bay, ocean for years
  • Modesto’s delayed ACE rail service could get a jump start with temporary station
  • Modesto settles lawsuit for $912,500 with woman who says her car was rear-ended by city driver
  • VCStar $: GasWorks project in Ventura to revive historic buildings
  • LAT $: Oversight inspectors accuse Sheriff’s Department of retaliation after reports on jail fires
  • OCReg: After months of delays and decades of waiting, fluffy sand is being delivered in San Clemente
  • LAT $: LGBTQ+ people in Huntington Beach fearful of what they say is a rise in hostility
  • 6 million square feet of warehouses proposed for the Temescal Valley
  • SDUT: Poway Unified superintendent fired amid harassment allegations by Del Norte softball players
  • SDUT: Legislators ask Gov. Newsom for financial aid to repair fire-damaged Oceanside pier
  • SDUT: Gloria’s proposed budget cuts would hit San Diego’s neediest especially hard, city analysis finds
  • SDUT: County moves forward with plan for a long-term migrant center after securing federal funding.


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