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• AP: California governor approves farmworker unionization law
• CalM: Newsom relents, signs farmworker union bill after pressure from Biden and labor
• LAT $: Column: Farmworkers just rolled Newsom. What does it say about the Latino vote?
• CG: Newly Signed Law to Expand Statewide Recycling Rebate Program Loaded With Pork
• Hill: Florida v. California: The fight for 2024
• SacBee: President Joe Biden ‘hardwired for a different world,’ Gov. Gavin Newsom says
• Gavin Newsom for president? He’s impressing Democratic insiders with blasts at Republicans
• SFC: He hit small businesses with disability lawsuits. Video may uncover ‘a monumental fraud’
• SDUT: Obama tells San Diego audience precision medicine held back by ‘creaky’ health care system
• SFC: Court: Cities can’t punish unhoused people for sleeping on public property
• San Francisco sued by homeless demanding affordable housing
• CG: Homeless Advocates Sue San Francisco To End Homeless Encampment Sweeps
• VCStar $: T.O. council OK's site for emergency homeless shelter
• SDUT: Housing crisis prompts first joint San Diego county-city meeting in decades
• FresBee: Fresno City Council considering 8 new policies to tackle city’s housing crisis, homelessness
• VOC: Is Orange County Gutting Local Homeless Resources Needed by CARE Court?
• SDUT: Sheriff candidates talk jail deaths, homelessness in Lincoln Park forum
• SFC: What could land you on California’s list of homes using too much water?
• SFC: California’s drought has brought back water shaming. Is it a good thing?
• CalM: Four in a row: California drought likely to continue
• SDUT: Bill that requires domestic violence victims have access to forensic exams signed into law
• CalM: Governor signs contentious nursing home licensing bill that splintered advocates
• AP: California to add wine, liquor bottles to recycling program
• AP: California governor signs laws to boost housing production
• LAT $: In groundbreaking plan, California allows affordable housing on some commercial properties
• SJMN: Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bills allowing new housing on commercial property
• SFC: SF bullet train will displace hundreds in Bay Area
• LAT $: L.A. moves closer to ending COVID-19 eviction protections
• KQED: Faced With Backlog, San Francisco Hits Pause on New Applications for COVID Rent Assistance
• LAT $: California's outgoing chief justice to lead public policy think tank
• LAT $: 6 people shot, 2 with life-threatening injuries, at Oakland school campus
• SFC: Mass shooting at an Oakland high school injures six. Police search for attacker
• AP: California woman charged with killing man over cat dispute
• SBSun: Sheriff: Fontana teen killed with father in shootout ‘was a participant in firing at our deputies’
• AP: Police uncertain if girl killed in shootout was abducted
• LAT $: L.A. school district changes plan for expanded school year under teachers union pressure
• LADN: LAUSD and UTLA reach tentative deal on Acceleration Days to help students catch up
• AP: RFK assassin Sirhan asks to go home to live ‘in peace’
• Reason: Migrant Kids in Biden Administration's Tent Camp Faced Distress and Panic Attacks Because of Dysfunction
• Reason: 'Flagrantly Illegal': Law Firm Files Lawsuit To Stop Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness
• FresBee: Fresno City Council should ditch effort to spend $750,000 on political ‘education’
• OCReg: State hides, decides not to hide test data
• CG: Legal Reform is Necessary to Incentivize Corrections, Not Lawsuits
• NR: The DEI Bureaucracy Is Failing, Even on Its Own Terms
• OCReg: AB 257 abridges business freedoms in California
• CG: Ken Cooley is a Mudslinging, Demagogic Stooge
• SacBee: Sacramento homeless death toll rises to nearly 230 for 2021. Here are their stories.
• SFC: Here’s what San Francisco could get out of Mayor London Breed’s visit to D.C. this week
• SFC: S.F. releases first-of-its kind drug overdose plan. Here’s what it promises
• SFC: SF DA Brooke Jenkins could charge fentanyl dealers with murder
• SFC: Chevron sells San Ramon HQ property as it shifts more workers to Texas
• SJMN: San Jose food-delivery startup Locale fined $140,000 by feds for using child drivers
• FresBee: Will Fresno’s finance director lose his job? Special meeting called for Thursday
• Mental health pros could begin responding to crises with Modesto cops by November
• FresBee: MS-13 gang member convicted of murder during wave of terror in Fresno County city
• SFC: Court agrees to remove San Luis Obispo D.A. from case over BLM comments
• CalCoast: Cambria and Cayucos residents facing huge garbage rate increases
• VCStar $: Rally in Oxnard supports jobless aid for undocumented
• LADN: San Dimas lawsuit over light-rail parking project may mean the train skips that station
• LAT $: UCLA wants more students but has no room. So it’s buying a campus in Rancho Palos Verdes
• OCReg: OC law enforcement, firefighters train in old county Hall of Administration
• OCReg: As options to relocate Irvine asphalt plant loom, residents voice frustration, concern
• OCReg: Anaheim’s OCVibe wins approval, clearing way for entertainment district around Honda Center
• OCReg: Irvine council, Live Nation ink deal for permanent concert venue at Great Park
• OCReg: La Habra man arrested, accused of threatening state senator
• SBSun: UC Riverside gets $201 million in bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom
• SDUT: Judge dismisses claim against Ash Street lender, formalizing tentative ruling
• SDUT: San Diego airport awarded $110M in grant money for Terminal 1 project
• VOSD: Housing Debate Defines District 6 Council Race
• VOSD: What’s The Big Deal with Community Schools?

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