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• CalPERS retirees elect longtime SEIU president to represent them on pension board
• The Twitter Files, Part 2: Blacklists and Shadowbans
• WashTimes: Second installment of Twitter Files reveals platform’s push to silence conservatives
• NR: Twitter Suppressed Prominent Right-Wing, Anti-Lockdown Users, Documents Show
• BreitbartCA: WATCH: ‘Merchant of Death’ Handed over for Brittney Griner…
• Biden's Very Costly Prisoner Swap
• FoxLA: LA County re-enters "high" COVID-19 community level
• CG: LA County Projecting Mask Mandate In Early January
• SFC: California COVID hospitalizations soar 150% in a month, echoing last year’s winter surge
• LADN: LA County moves into CDC’s ‘high transmission’ COVID category
• SF's income program for pregnant Black women expands across CA
• SDUT: Column: Mental health problems among homeless people is a concern coast to coast
• East Bay mayor ending term paying rent for homeless families
• LAT $: As Bass inauguration nears, homeless people are relocated
• SFC: Pair caught with fraudulent EBT cards after bank notices unusual activity
• SFC: S.F. officials find at least two bedrooms at Twitter HQ as investigation continues
• CalM: California budget season starts off with a bang
• WashTimes: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema switches from Democrat to independent, blames ‘extreme partisans’
• NR: Senator Kyrsten Sinema Defects from Democratic Party
• Why I'm Switching From Dem to Independent
• BreitbartCA: Sinema Leaves Democrats, Becomes Independent
• CG: Businesses Across California Brace For Minimum Wage Increase January 1
• LAT $: Strippers protesting at North Hollywood bar were unlawfully fired, NLRB says
• LAT $: Why legal weed is failing in one of California’s legendary pot-growing regions
• Gavin Newsom has closed 3 California prisons. Now lawmakers are planning to shut down more
• AP: Ex-prison warden convicted of sexually abusing inmates
• AP: California’s commercial Dungeness crab season delayed again
• One person injured in shooting in Corona
• FresBee: Judge hears testimony about Fresno roommate feud turned deadly. ‘He was stabbed 19 times’
• FresBee: 1 dead, 1 wounded in central Fresno shooting. What police know so far
• SDUT: San Diego police fatally shoot man they say was suicidal and armed with gun in City Heights
• OCReg: California Realtor’s new purchase contract could upend buyer’s agent commission
• LAT $: L.A. street vendors sue city over right to sell in prohibited zones
• AP: Tribe searches for remains at California construction site
• CG: UC Strike Affecting Students Finals, Semester Grades
• LAT $: How washing my hands with ‘toilet water’ cut my water bills in half
• CG: CPAC Study: Record Political Polarization Found in State Lawmaker Votes Across the Nation
• Twitter & Dems Lied Through Teeth About Censorship
• WashTimes: ‘Woke’ libraries that host drag queens denied his request to read faith-based book
• A Shameful Prisoner Swap
• OCReg: Newsom’s tax proposal flunks Economics 101
• AP: Tribal, federal leaders cheer Klamath River dam removals
• A Black Sacramento firefighter said his colleagues set him up to fail. Now he’s suing the city
• SacBee: 6 newspapers serving Sacramento-area suburbs sold to new owners. Who bought them?
• SacBee: Sacramento County to spend $450M for downtown jail improvements. Why it’s controversial
• SFC: S.F. group that helped bankroll the Boudin recall takes over Bold Italic
• SFC: A year and a state investigation later, Stevenson housing project faces little opposition
• SJMN: Former San Jose Mayor Janet Gray Hayes wins one more vote
• SJ struggles to find solutions to stop city's record traffic deaths
• SFC: Santa Clara council majority disputes grand jury’s findings involving 49ers
• FresBee: In his last meeting as a Fresno Unified trustee, Slatic slams superintendent’s contract
• Modesto High principal, now on leave, has been under investigation since Nov. 29
• Stanislaus economic output hits record $22 billion. How does it compare with others?
• CalCoast: SLO County Hospitals to pay millions for alleged false billing
• VCStar $: Ventura County residents struggle to keep up with rent
• LAT $: Eric Garcetti led L.A. during profoundly turbulent times. How will history judge him?
• LADN: LAPD to retrain thousands of officers in crowd control tactics in 2023
• LADN: LA city panel unanimously backs wildlife district, to save animals from people
• OCReg: Orange County supervisors must explain $78 million health campus
• OCReg: New Rancho Mission Viejo fire station to be replaced by 2030 as community expands
• VOC: Laguna Niguel City Council Approves Controversial Condo Project Below Former Landslide
• SBSun: 5 years after closing, Carousel Mall in San Bernardino to be demolished for $8 million
• SBSun: San Bernardino OKs repairs for Martin Luther King Jr. and Vietnam War monuments
• 5 takeaways from Riverside County’s 2022 State of the County
• SDUT: ERs stressed as COVID-19 cases increase in San Diego County
• SDUT: Wells cruises to victory in El Cajon, but without a tax bump that could have hired more cops
• SDUT: The November election results have been certified. Here’s what that means
• SDUT: It’s official: San Diego voters passed Measure B to end no-fee trash pickup, final results show

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