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Saturday, March 22, 2025

Dear John,


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  • SacBee: Are Gov. Newsom’s burner phones to tech execs a violation of transparency laws?
  • SFC: Here’s how Gavin Newsom’s podcast arrangement works. The details raise questions
  • CG: What Gov. Newsom Is Thinking With ‘This Is Gavin Newsom’ Podcast
  • SDUT: ICE just visited a San Diego homeless shelter. New rules say how that’s supposed to go.
  • SDUT: East County nonprofit allegedly used as a front for drug trafficking
  • SacBee: Software company lost out on big California payroll project. Now it’s suing the state
  • CG: Dissension and Chaos: Behind the Curtain of the California School Board Land Acknowledgement Craze
  • LAT $: California banned polystyrene. So why is it still on store shelves?
  • CA looks to eliminate gas tax, replace with road charge program
  • CG: RFK Jr. Running Mate Nicole Shanahan Announces She Will Not Run For Governor
  • OCReg: Proposed gutting of Department of Education worries Southern California educators, activists
  • SDUT: Tesla sales in San Diego decline amid anti-Musk protests and vandalism
  • SFC: Tiny, swampy, ‘not really drivable’: The hamlet where California Forever envisions a shipbuilding powerhouse
  • SJMN: Charles Schwab accused of firing Los Altos investment consultant because he ran for Congress as Democrat
  • LAT $: Trump-appointed judge dissents in California ammo case with gun-filled YouTube video
  • OCReg: State insurance crisis: Ricardo Lara emerges as an unsung hero
  • CG: Gavin Newsom is ‘All In’ on Undermining Trump EPA
  • OCReg: OUSD teachers present an affair to remember
  • OCReg: Reimagining legal reform in the wake of California wildfires
  • AP: Progressive icon Barbara Lee wants to be mayor of an Oakland marked by crime and homelessness
  • SJMN: Oakland airport expansion will move forward after settlement over noise, traffic and air-quality concerns
  • CG: Greenberg: SF’s Speed Fines are a Wealth Grab
  • SFC: Trump admin says it is not complying with S.F. judge’s order to return workers to their jobs
  • SJMN: VTA union to vote on new contract proposal Saturday after nearly two weeks of striking
  • Entertainment district proposal could bring big businesses to Tulare
  • LAT $: L.A. City Council seeks crackdown on the N-word and C-word at meetings
  • OCReg: OC district attorney ordered to turn over documents to ACLU in racial bias case
  • LAT $: Arellano: Jeff Pearlman goes from sportswriting to throwing fastballs at O.C. politicians
  • Alvord Unified Superintendent Resma Byrne steps down
  • SDUT: San Diego to start collecting Measure C’s hotel tax hike but will it be enough to expand convention center?
  • SDUT: Coastal Commission finds ‘issue’ with repairs proposed for Carlsbad beach stairway

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