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Friday, July 18, 2025

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THE HEADLINES

  • California’s Progressive Utopias Leave Pets to Die in the Streets
  • SHOULD TRUMP REOPEN ALCATRAZ?
  • CG: DOJ Requests California County Sheriffs Provide Names of Noncitizen inmates in California Jails
  • California Gov. Newsom, Sacramento-area leaders react to Border Patrol raid at Home Depot
  • SJMN: ‘We are all eating’: Inside California’s secret industry that props up mass shoplifting
  • CG: Border Patrol Raid at Sacramento Home Depot Yields 10 Arrests
  • Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE
  • OCReg: Nearly 2,800 undocumented immigrants have been detained in LA area since early June, DHS says
  • California sues Trump administration over pulled high-speed rail funding, Newsom says
  • CG: Voter ID, Proof Of Citizenship Ballot Initiative Launched By GOP Lawmakers
  • SFC: California lawmakers are quietly working to roll back criminal justice reforms
  • Here’s who’s up and who’s down in the battle for California campaign cash
  • CG: Leno’s Law to Removes Smog Tests for Classic Cars Passes Assembly Committee
  • Modesto police chief defends arrests during protests amid mask ordinance debate
  • California parole agent shot, killed in the line of duty in Oakland, officials say
  • OCReg: Hundreds protest Trump policies at ‘Good Trouble Lives On’ rallies across Southern California
  • CalM: ‘Like having a hand cut off’: California schools reeling after AmeriCorps cuts
  • Govt Unions Show Newsom Who's Really in Charge of California
  • CalM: California is finally adopting phonics, fulfilling a grandmother’s dream
  • OCReg: New California budget papers over $20 billion deficit, ignores day of reckoning
  • OCReg: Meet the new Gavin Newsom: Memelord and historical revisionist
  • CG: Ringside: One Way to Avoid Gasoline Lines in 2026
  • SacBee: Sacramento County man in Jan. 6 riot pardoned by Trump convicted for child porn
  • SFC: The Golden Gate Bridge is about to see 10 years of intensive construction
  • SJMN: Two Bay Area cites consider legal action amid ongoing trash standoff
  • CalM: Can a county fire a sheriff behind closed doors? Advocacy group threatens to sue for access
  • SJMN: Stanford protesters facing felony vandalism charges defer pleas
  • SJMN: Port of Oakland shipments drop dramatically as tariffs spur ‘market recalibration’ in trade
  • CalCoast: Belsher’s San Luis Obispo home sold for $600,000 at sheriff’s auction
  • Former Ojai finance director files $1M claim against city
  • LAT $: Is it finally time to ban new homes in the Rancho Palos Verdes’ landslide zone?
  • LAT $: Six months after the fire, has Mayor Karen Bass done enough for the Palisades?
  • OCReg: Orange County orders 911 staff not to route stroke patients to OC Global Medical Center
  • OCReg: Santa Ana City Council to meet with Police Oversight Commission over proposed changes
  • SDUT: San Diego water customers probably won’t get a break from steep rate hikes
  • SDUT: Affordable housing savior, or neighborhood destroyer? Meet the developer behind San Diego’s biggest ADU projects

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