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Monday, May 12, 2025

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  • California’s Refinery Crisis: A Self-Made Disaster
  • CG: How Many California Cities are Running Huge Budget Deficits?
  • SFC: Crime is down everywhere in S.F. — except in these two neighborhoods
  • Mystery in the Mission: Crime remains low as public drug use spikes
  • LAT $: Looking good for Kamala Harris, not so much for Karen Bass, poll shows
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  • SFC: A ‘silent threat’: California officials announce hearing into wildfire victim underinsurance following Chronicle investigation
  • CalM: Why a contentious project to raise California’s Shasta Dam could move forward under Trump
  • SJMN: Why do Bay Area homeless people turn down shelter beds?
  • LAT $: Trump’s attacks on transgender Americans are a test in California’s governor’s race
  • SacBee: Immigrant children face legal cases without lawyers. A CA bill could change that
  • SacBee: Millions of Californians experienced ‘act of hate,’ many at businesses, survey says
  • LAT $: Few among hundreds of campus protesters in L.A. facing charges, reigniting debate
  • SJMN: Harry Edwards continues his life’s work of social activism with another major recognition coming
  • OCReg: Jon Coupal: The lamest excuse for perpetuating the high-speed rail project
  • America Shedding Pillars of Civilization - By Choice
  • CG: The Great Language Change of DEI Tenants: A DSUSD Case Study
  • SJMN: San Mateo County sets aside $2 million for farmworker housing loans
  • SJMN: San Jose BART extension: Why hasn’t VTA released the report that could offer millions in savings?
  • VCStar $: County effort to use first responders in overdose fight
  • LAT $: Report on false alerts sent during L.A. fires calls for more regulation, scrutiny
  • VOC: Santa Ana Bans Whippets
  • SDUT: San Diego Sheriff confronting a new federal lawsuit over 2024 jail death
  • SDUT: San Diego leaders join nationwide lobbying push to save Medicaid


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