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Thursday, April 24, 2025

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THE HEADLINES

  • FRBlog: California’s Gas Price Pain: Taxes, Regulations, and Futile Climate Gestures
  • SF women’s department chief ousted amid financial probe
  • SFC: Top S.F. official ousted after probe finds misconduct, ‘unlawful activities’
  • CalM: Abundance meets resistance: Are Democrats finally ready to go all in on building housing?
  • OCReg: Public workers to get more pension benefits under new bill
  • OCReg: Feds, family members angered by pending early release of man who killed teens in OC
  • CalCoast: California is now the world’s fourth largest economy
  • LAT $: California economy now the world’s fourth-largest, overtaking Japan
  • OCReg: California fights U.S. threat to end school funding over diversity
  • NR: California School Board Passes Motion Banning Male Athletes from Girls’ Sports
  • CalM: Inside LA’s mental health court: Meth, homelessness and the judge who wants to help
  • 'We were essentially guinea pigs': New California bar exam causes chaos after rollout of hybrid test
  • SDUT: ‘Who’s our leader?’ In El Cajon, Sara Jacobs faces hundreds of residents eager to oppose Trump
  • LAT $: California security firm CEO, workers charged after woman forcibly removed from Republican town hall
  • Democrats eye 2026 as best chance to finally unseat Rep. Young Kim
  • LAT $: Santa Ynez Reservoir in Palisades must be drained again after more leaks found
  • CalM: These communities are unaware they’ve lived near toxic gas for decades. Why has no action been taken?
  • LAT $: Arrests at Pomona Home Depot sparks fear about labor crackdown amid L.A. fire recovery
  • CalM: How Trump tariffs could upend California farms, wine businesses and ports
  • CG: Federal Lawsuit Filed Challenging Validity of Nor Cal Ione Band of Miwok Indians
  • Parents' Rights Are Making a Comeback
  • OCReg: Reading instruction must follow science over subjectiveness
  • OCReg: Huntington Beach’s nonprofit power grab
  • Thieves steal tens of thousands of dollars worth of landscaping equipment from Sacramento church
  • SacBee: Placer court waits on mental health report in Roseville hostage killing case
  • SFC: In bold move, San Mateo County sheriff gives her alleged boyfriend a new job
  • SFC: Bay Area Whole Foods shut down after repeated health violations
  • SFC: Union-backed Oakland school board majority ousts home-grown superintendent
  • SFC: SJSU’s Blaire Fleming was suicidal after becoming beacon of national anti-trans movement
  • Misty Her named next Fresno Unified superintendent
  • $30M in renovations completed at 2 Modesto affordable senior housing communities
  • Riverbank council declines more funds for homeless project. Backers address fears
  • VCStar $: Fairgrounds mold repairs carry $600K price tag
  • LAT $: Cuts to LADOT could hurt Olympics and safety goals, department warns
  • LAT $: In Sacramento, Mayor Bass seeks state money to close nearly $1-billion budget gap
  • LAT $: ‘Enough is enough’: Chainsawed trees spark anger over downtown L.A.’s decline
  • VOC: Anaheim on Track to Require Tourism Bureau Show Convention, Hotel Bookings
  • VOC: Orange County Supervisors Ask Prosecutors to Crack Down Harder on Disgraced Former Colleague
  • LAT $: Feds to pursue immigration case against driver in O.C. crash that killed couple
  • State clears Fontana police officer in fatal shooting of unarmed Hemet man
  • In Riverside County jails, a rash of homicide and negligence
  • SDUT: Mystery investors, pleading the 5th, illegal renovations: Former El Cajon council member’s wild trial
  • SDUT: San Diego amends code to let auditor hire independent lawyer
  • SDUT: San Diego is still failing to overhaul how it manages brush to prevent fires


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