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• AP: Half of California freed from drought thanks to rain, snow
• SJMN: Drought is now over in more than half of California, including the Bay Area, feds say
• FoxLA: California snowfall is ‘once in a generation,’ meteorologists say
• CalM: Despite union opposition, many teachers support dyslexia screening for all students
• SacBee: Cash assistance proposed for California’s undocumented seniors. How much could they receive?
• LAT $: DeSantis makes California pilgrimage to woo influential Republicans
• SFC: San Francisco has no official animal, and we need your help to name one
• FoxLA: 'We need help': Stranded Lake Arrowhead residents plead for assistance amid food and medication shortages
• SBSun: ‘Plow the roads,’ mountain residents say, as San Bernardino County vows to do better
• AP: California’s snow-stranded residents need food, plows, help
• LAT $: Newsom, IRS give Californians until October to file tax returns
• SJMN: Forcing Californians into mental health treatment would get easier with proposed legislation
• CalM: After a pandemic pause, the state will restart checking Medi-Cal eligibility
• California Sen. Dianne Feinstein hospitalized with shingles
• SFC: As conservatives champion ‘parents’ rights,’ California focuses on kids’ autonomy
• AOL: California proposal calls for diversity in all K-12 textbooks, prevent Florida-style bans
• CalCoast: Diablo Canyon can continue operating past 2025
• AP: California reactors win exemption in fight to keep running
• FoxLA: Homeless crisis: Residents voice concern over idea of fence around Echo Park coming down
• VOC: Does Orange County Need Another Homeless Survey? Report Shows Increase in Deaths
• SDUT: Settlement talks prompt judge to delay finalizing ruling that halted Rancho Peñasquitos housing development
• FoxLA: Southern California to Las Vegas bullet train one step closer to reality
• California state Sen. Scott Wiener considers congressional run if Nancy Pelosi steps down
• VOSD: South Bay Mobile Home Park Dispute Moves to Sacramento
• SFC: Could CA become first to require Tesla stations to open to all EVs?
• CalM: Worker safety laws don’t protect these California workers. A new bill would change that
• LAT $: Assemblyman submits bill to cut paper receipts. We have the receipts from his last attempt
• OCReg: Disneyland quietly removes controversial lyric from new parade soundtrack
• Devin Nunes can’t sue CNN and Jake Tapper over Paul Pelosi comments in Florida. Here’s why
• LAT $: Chabria: Mike Lindell is helping a California county dump voting machines. You should worry
• Reason: My Son Did His Taxes for the First Time. Rage Ensued.
• Parents and Children Are the GOP Future
• CG: Newsom for…Vice President?
• OCReg: As city-state housing war heats up, one rich California enclave gets a pass
• NR: The Media Won’t Stop Lying about Abortion
• OCReg: High speed rail update gets closer to reality, but major risks remain
• Reason: Decades of Subsidies Have Made the Essentials of Middle-Class Life Increasingly Difficult To Afford
• OCReg: John Stossel: The Jones Act is just another special interest scam
• Folsom Dam spillway damages to cost $16 million to repair
• SacBee: Sacramento councilman Sean Loloee keeps getting caught yelling at his detractors
• SacBee: Sacramento police officer faces vehicular manslaughter charge in motorcyclist’s death
• SFC: UC Berkeley students protest plans to shutter rare anthropology library
• SFC: COVID in California: As virus slows elsewhere, S.F. sees another uptick
• CalM: State rejects local plans for protecting San Joaquin Valley groundwater
• Modesto says personal data may have been accessed in ransomware attack
• Modesto landmark could house people with mental illness. Neighbors raise concerns
• AP: California winery never had license to sell alcohol
• CalCoast: Paso Robles mayor away from work due to serious health issue
• LAT $: Special counsel urges sheriff to ban the ‘cancer’ of deputy gangs
• VOC: Laguna Beach Bans Sale and Public Use of All Balloons Starting 2024
• OCReg: Fannie Mae halts financing for 6,102 condos in Laguna Woods
• VOC: Should the OC Sheriff’s Department Write its Own Policies?
• 3 apparent gas explosions in San Bernardino mountain homes worry local residents
• SBSun: Laura Whitehurst, Redlands Unified hit with another sexual abuse lawsuit
• SDUT: San Diego’s aging cruise ship terminal on B Street getting first makeover in 40 years
• SDUT: Column: Former Imperial Beach mayor is optimistic — and upset — about border pollution progress
• SDUT: Tijuana sewage isn’t only in Imperial Beach waves. It’s in the air. And San Diegans are breathing it.
• VOSD: Amid an Overdose Crisis, Many San Diegans Struggle to Access Detox

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