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- CG: The Long, Controversial History of LA Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas
- LAT $: Ridley-Thomas indictment brings fresh uncertainty to an already unsettled City Hall
- LAT $: What happens to sites named for Ridley-Thomas?
- LADN: Ridley-Thomas, ex-USC dean vow they will be cleared of federal conspiracy, bribery charges
- LAT $: A son’s troubles, financial desperation brought USC dean, Mark Ridley-Thomas together
- CG: LA Councilman Ridley-Thomas Indicted on Corruption Counts
- LAT $: Editorial: Indicted on bribery charges, Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas should step down
- CG: SEIU Leader Charged With Fraud While Campaign Cash Gave Speaker Nuñez ‘Rich Travel Style’
- CG: Politicians Give Themselves Raises, Pass Frivolous Legislation While California Burns
- CG: Superior Court Judge Issues Order Halting Prison Guard Vaccine Mandate
- SacBee: Nearly 40% of California state workers are unvaccinated against COVID despite Newsom order
- SFC: All BART employees must get vaccinated by Dec. 13 under new mandate
- LADN: LA County’s Ferrer ‘pleased’ with compliance on new vaccine requirements
- LADN: LAUSD sued over student vaccination mandate
- LAT $: 95% of teachers meet COVID-19 vaccination deadline, union says
- SJMN: Editorial: End California bullet train boondoggle, once and for all
- CalM: How will diverse voters be represented in California’s new election districts?
- AP: California highway reopens but fire still a threat to homes
- AP: Calmer winds aid firefighters battling California blaze
- Alisal Fire Within Half-Mile Of Ronald Reagan’s Santa Barbara Ranch
- AP: Bill Clinton in hospital for non-COVID-related infection
- LADN: No timetable yet for Port of LA’s 24/7 operations, but talks ramping up, officials say
- AP: Coast Guard: California oil spill likely 25,000 gallons
- LAT $: Officials knew of potential for ‘catastrophe’ when O.C. oil platforms approved in 1970s
- LAT $: FBI joins investigation into California oil spill
- OCReg: Laguna Beach opens ocean following oil spill closures
- VOC: How Safe Is OC’s Coast After Oil Spill? Fisheries Still Closed, Cities Do Their Own Water Testing
- AP: Aging equipment, spills test ties between oil, California
- OCReg: Hours after fentanyl overdose, intoxicated Irvine man crashes, kills woman, authorities say
- SFC: Breed facing pressure to declare the overdose crisis a health emergency
- AP: Battle over California fire insurance policies intensifies
- SJMN: San Francisco, Marin ease indoor mask rule. Will others?
- SFC: New mask rules take effect Friday in S.F. and Marin. Here’s what to know
- AP: 4 hospitalized with burns in Northern California plane crash
- SacBee: A controversial Sacramento statue is being replaced. Why punish those who brought it down?
- SDUT: Group pushes city, county to open winter homeless shelters
- SFC: Longtime S.F. housing activist is now facing his own eviction, despite city’s moratorium
- SDUT: City attorney starts effort aimed at getting guns out of the hands of domestic abusers
- LAT $: Boy Scouts sex abuse victims vote on $1.9-billion settlement plan
- CG: Monterey County Fracking Ban Overturned By State Appellate Court
- Joe Rogan vs. CNN's Gupta On Network's "Dangerous" Ivermectin Lie: "You Know That They Know They Are Lying"
- Joe Rogan Gets Sanjay Gupta to Admit CNN Lied
- 10 Ways the Chinese Government Lied About Covid
- SDUT: 'Firing up the base' didn't work. Here's how Republicans can win again in California.
- CalM: California’s legal climate hurting small business owners - CalMatters
- Reason: Dems Want to Soak the Rich by Snooping on the Poor
- OCReg: Orange County pays high price for bad policing
- OCReg: Signings cap an oddly reasonable legislative year
- NR: The IRS Doesn’t Need More Power
- OCReg: California’s regulations are hindering insurance provided wildfire protections
- OCReg: Growing efforts to reform school system
- How Google, Facebook & Twitter Rigged 2020 Election
- Reason: Facebook's Blacklists Are Another Way To Constrain Competition
- SacBee: By hiding settlement, Sacramento officials participated in a cover-up for nearly two years
- SacBee: California Attorney General Rob Bonta meets with Sacramento leaders to discuss hate crimes
- SacBee: Kings games, concerts and events are back. Can they help downtown Sacramento rebound?
- SFC: Marin County sheriff sued for sharing license plate photos with ICE, others
- SFC: There’s new hope to fix Millennium Tower’s tilting problem
- SFC: Oakland split generationally on police as city confronts surge in homicides
- SFC: Fed up with ‘missing white woman syndrome,’ activists protest in Oakland
- SJMN: New mandatory drought rules will give San Jose the toughest water rules of any big California city
- SJMN: Fraud-linked downtown San Jose apartment complex purchase is completed
- FresBee: Fresno County boss didn’t know about CPS kids in deplorable conditions until this week
- Current system is ‘broken at times’: Modesto starts looking for new 911 dispatch options
- FresBee: Fresno bans indoor smoking in apartments. What about medical marijuana?
- CalCoast: Paso Robles teachers protest for higher pay
- VCStar $: Oxnard looks at granny flats to address house shortage
- VCStar $: Simi mayor parts ways with anti-racism group he founded
- VCStar $: High winds, red flag warning set for Ventura County
- LAT $: Villaraigosa endorses Karen Bass for L.A. mayor
- OCReg: Coronavirus: More than 2 million people in Orange County are fully vaccinated as of Oct. 14
- SBSun: San Bernardino again at odds with Pepe’s Towing
- SBSun: Newsom wins San Bernardino County in recall vote — barely
- SBSun: Another inmate death at West Valley Detention Center spurs protest, legal claim
- PE: Riverside Convention Center expansion threatened by coronavirus pandemic
- SDUT: Ash Street memo containing infamous ‘Footnote 15' surfaces, rekindling debate over San Diego city failures
- SDUT: Encinitas council delays decision on controversial Olivenhain apartment complex
- VOSD: Housing Commission Under Pressure for Not Informing City of Deaths at Hotels
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