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Complications related to coronavirus claim the life of the first Golden State youth. Congress leaves without extending unemployment benefits — your move, state Legislature. And $2.1 billion heads to a vaccine whose makers hope to bring it to regulators…
A city hiding behind the pandemic to avoid approving new housing gets another stern warning from the state. And criminal justice advocates are calling on corrections staff to not repeat its prison mistakes at youth facilities. Plus: What are the odds o…
A Big Sur tribe gets back stolen land. Gov. Gavin Newsom asks for $52 million for the Central Valley as coronavirus cases soar in the eight-county region. And speaking of Newsom, protesters chained themselves to his house early Monday, demanding change…
Gov. Gavin Newsom sends a housing lifeline to workers on the front lines; millions of others wonder how they’ll make August rent. Plus: Is your mail late? That could be intentional.
The Golden State, with 409,000+ coronavirus cases, now “leads” the nation. And: Trustees of the CSU system voted to require students to take ethnic studies or social justice studies, but a competing proposal in the Legislature may upend those rules.
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Officials warn that’s how long we could stay on shutdown. Do you count job losses? Number of permanent business closures? Impacts to mental health? Yes. And I talk to an author who writes about that time she took up boxing at age 28 … and in the proc…
Under pressure to resign, USC President C.L. Max Nikias left with a generous separation package, tax records show. And why a bankruptcy by the state’s biggest oil and gas producer could cost taxpayers big. Plus: Home sales see a resurgence.
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A judge blocks plans to convert two private prisons to an immigration detention facility. And the state tightens rules on regulator-oil industry relationships. Plus: Just because huge school districts are doing it doesn’t mean little ones have to do it…
The state sets tiers for who gets priority when it comes to COVID-19 testing. And all this authority-ing by Gov. Gavin Newsom isn’t sitting well with some Republican elected officials, who say shutting things down isn’t working. Plus: More on that L.A….
Gov. Gavin Newsom calls it a dimmer switch, but for many Golden State businesses, it’s lights out. Again. And it’s a good gig if you can get it — a security guard at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power pulled in a cool $931,000 in overtime ov…