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‘They’re only getting more essential.’ California home caregivers seek statewide bargaining power

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s in-home caregivers, a historically underpaid workforce that serves a rapidly aging population, could receive a significant boost in bargaining power under a new bill introduced Friday.

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Bridgeport artist ZorZorZor’s South Loop alley mural won her a distant fan and a paid commission

Creating art in such out-of-the-way spots feels “more real, more genuine,” she says. A woman in California saw a photo of it and had her do a painting based on the mural.

Chicago Sun-Times

For Many of the Poorest in a Central Valley Community, a Crisis Deepens

As a California town reels from the floods, undocumented residents say federal aid officials are turning them away.

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Auto review: Racing across the desert in the ferocious Ford Bronco DR

JOHNSON VALLEY, California — I swung my body over the door sill, strapped myself into the molded seat with a five-point safety belt and gripped the steering wheel with Nomex gloves. Exploding forward, I watched for the dashboard Christmas lights to blink red before upshifting, the engine’s controlled violence shaking…

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Would it be crazy to rekindle things with the love of my life from 20 years ago?

Coleen Nolan advises a reader who dreams of getting back together with her first love - even though he now lives in California

Daily Mirror

Once Upon a Time in the California Court of Appeal

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood doesn't infringe 1960s actor Christopher Jones' right of publicity.

Reason

Whatever happened to Mary Agnes Moroney? DNA tests appear to solve 1930s mystery of missing Chicago girl

A new investigation into the kidnapping led her family to conclude she grew up as Jeanette Burchard, became a nurse and had three children, and died in Florida 20 years ago. “She was loved very much,” her daughter said.

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Could California be the latest state to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions?

Proposal would allow prisoners to vote in what advocates see as a matter of racial justice – but challenges lie ahead

The Guardian - US

Commentary: I was shot in the Southern California desert. Why? That’s the wrong question

Why do we keep treating gun violence in the U.S. as a series of isolated incidents instead of an out-of-control epidemic?

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: If you think the earthquake damage you see in Turkey can’t happen here, think again

The images from Turkey and Syria in the last week show us just how devastating a major earthquake can be. When the magnitude 7.8 earthquake we expect on the San Andreas fault happens, we will also see death and destruction, perhaps not as extensive as seen in Turkey, but much…

Los Angeles Times

Free after 14 years in prison for selling medical weed, California man aims to change US law

It’s the little things — going to the grocery store, cleaning the house, finishing yardwork — that Luke Scarmazzo is grateful for after being imprisoned for something that very likely wouldn’t land him there now.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Commentary: California gun control isn’t the cure for what ails us. It isn’t even the cure for California

After every high-profile mass shooting, gun control advocates reflexively demand that we “just do something” about the problem. Invariably, that “something” means a very specific set of things, which can be summarized as a singular effort to impose California’s restrictive gun laws at the federal level.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Of course the California attorney general’s wife shouldn’t oversee his budget

A flurry of news stories in recent days exposed the questionable appointment of California Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Alameda) as chair of a budget subcommittee that will recommend funding for the state Department of Justice, which is run by her spouse, Attorney General Rob Bonta. The right response would have been…

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: Civil Feinstein delivered results but irked ideologues

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California's most accomplished senator, became an anachronism. She practiced civility and compromised with the other side.

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Feds using 'enhanced surveillance' to see what's behind the natural gas spike in California

The head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that oversees the interstate transmission of natural gas, electricity and oil on Thursday would not say whether it will launch a formal investigation into soaring natural gas prices in California but did say the agency has assigned staff to examine whether any…

The Independent UK

Tiger Woods makes stirring finish to comeback round at Genesis Invitational

Woods, who was playing alongside Rory McIlroy, made three straight birdies to card a 69

Al Jazeera

Suspect in Half Moon Bay mass shooting pleads not guilty

The 66-year-old former farmworker is accused of killing seven people in back-to-back shootings in California last month.

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Support and opposition campaigns amassed $724.8 million in California for 2022 ballot measures

In 2022, campaigns supporting and opposing the seven ballot measures that appeared on the general election ballot amassed $724.8 million in contributions. This is an average of $103.5 million per measure, which is the highest average for California ballot measures between 2016 and 2022.

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Fearing return of dry conditions, California Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to waive environmental protections in Delta

As January’s drenching storms have given way to an unseasonably dry February, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking to waive environmental rules in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in an effort to store more water in reservoirs — a move that is drawing heated criticism from environmental advocates who say…

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California lawmakers denied an anti-slavery bill last year but they are trying again

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers will once again introduce legislation that could ban imposing forced labor on inmates. This effort to amend state’s Constitution was rejected last year when lawmakers failed to pass it through the Assembly.

Los Angeles Times

UC Riverside should investigate economics research center, faculty say

LOS ANGELES — Some University of California faculty members are raising the alarm about a research center affiliated with UC Riverside that they say uses corporate funding for reports "attacking proposals to improve the lives of working Californians."

Los Angeles Times

Black Californians more likely to experience inequities in health care, survey finds

LOS ANGELES — More than half of Black Californians said there was a time in the last few years when they thought they would have received better health care if they had belonged to a different racial or ethnic group, according to a report released Thursday.

Al Jazeera

Libraries address ‘gaps’ in California housing, weather response

As droughts, fire and severe storms ravage the western United States, local libraries offer sanctuary to those in need.

The Independent UK

Tree trimmer dies after getting stuck 50ft up a California palm tree

Bardomiano Bautista-Perez, 39, became pinned by the fronds as he worked halfway up giant tree

Daily Mirror

Woman blows $10million of her company's money 'partying at Las Vegas Strip casino'

Sara Jacqueline King, from Orange County in California, US, was working as a lawyer for LDR International Limited in the British Virgin Islands when she allegedly spent the company's funds

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