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California tree carnage: A decade of drought and fire killed a third of Sierra Nevada forests

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Admirers of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are familiar with the swaths of blackened trees flanking its sprawling green forest ranges. A new University of California, Berkeley study quantifies that devastation, finding nearly a third of southern Sierra conifer forests have died in the last decade.

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Decriminalizing Jaywalking in California Will Help Reduce Police Harassment

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in September that will chip away at a policy that has long been criticized as enabling racially-motivated policing.

Reason

Ye escorted out of Skechers’ headquarters in California

“Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation,” according to a company statement.

Chicago Sun-Times

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In California, spending on adults with disabilities differs by 'race and place'

The system charged with ensuring that California adults with developmental disabilities get crucial services is plagued with stark differences in spending by race, ethnicity and where people live, according to a report released Wednesday by a disability advocacy group.

Los Angeles Times

An abortion rights question on the California ballot revives the debate over ‘viability’

As California voters decide whether to amend their state constitution to explicitly protect abortion rights, lawmakers still do not agree on whether the amendment would enshrine those rights, which by state law allow abortion up to 24 weeks, or expand them, permitting abortions at any point in pregnancy, for any…

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Labor tries city-by-city push in California for $25 minimum wage at private medical facilities

A class of health care facility support staff, including nursing assistants, security guards, and janitors, has worked alongside doctors and nurses throughout the covid-19 pandemic keeping patients and medical buildings safe and clean. It’s an unassuming line of work that some people consider a calling.

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For some California Latinos, the abortion debate was not a ‘real conversation’ — until now

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Over his career in politics, Sacramento City Councilman Eric Guerra and his mother, Amparo Perez Quintero, 68, found common ground on almost every issue — education, immigrant rights, public safety and housing.

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Self-proclaimed ‘socialist’ to ‘red pill’ anti-lockdown crusader: What are Elon Musk’s politics?

The Tesla and SpaceX tycoon has donated to both parties and attacked everyone from Joe Biden through Donald Trump to trade unions and ‘pronouns’, but underneath it all there is a consistent ideology, writes Io Dodds

The Independent UK

‘A madness has taken hold’ ahead of US midterms: local election officials fear for safety

In two rural California counties, voters are showing increasing hostility and aggression toward election workers

The Guardian - US

2 Californians bought Barilla pasta thinking it was made in Italy. Now they're suing

Two customers who bought $6 worth of Barilla pasta say they were duped. They thought they were buying products made in Italy. What they got was made in Iowa and New York.

WEKU

Robin Abcarian: The anti-abortion gang that couldn't shoot straight has lost again

Am I going soft?

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Those math and reading scores were horrible, but beware of the political spin

There's nothing good to say about the newly-released national test scores in reading and math for fourth- and eighth-graders, showing sizable declines in the vast majority of states as a result of the pandemic.

Los Angeles Times

Campaign finance deadline today in California

Candidates and organizations involved in California’s statewide elections must file campaign finance information by October 27, 2022. The general election will take place in California on November 8, 2022.

Ballotpedia

Kanye West kicked out of Skechers California headquarters

Kanye West was escorted out of the California headquarters of athletic shoemaker Skechers Wednesday after he showed up unannounced

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California attorney general demands Albertsons delay $4 billion dividend ahead of possible Kroger merger

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and his peers in several other states demanded Wednesday that Albertsons Cos. delay paying a $4-billion dividend to investors until after the company's merger with rival supermarket chain Kroger Co. is reviewed by the Federal Trade Commission.

The Independent UK

Arizona's Kelly hits California on Colorado River use

Communities around California's shrinking Salton Sea are at the center of the latest spat between Arizona and California over how to conserve Colorado River water

Daily Mirror

Terrifying footage shows woman smashing her way into stranger's house where baby slept

Beverly Baker walked up to the home of a complete stranger in California, US, and launched a sudden and unexplained pickaxe attack causing thousands of pounds of damage

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Tesla Presents Its New Megapack Factory In Lathrop, California

Tesla's all-new battery energy storage system (BESS) factory in Lathrop, California is almost ready and is ramping up production. Let's take a look.

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The Guardian - US

Mike Davis, prophetic writer on disaster and social unrest, dies aged 76

Writer of over a dozen books and California’s ‘prophet of doom’ told the Guardian in August: ‘Despair is useless’

The Independent UK

Judge mulls mental evaluation in Kavanaugh threat case

A federal judge in Maryland said he is likely to order a mental evaluation for a California man charged with trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

Reason

Will Californians Overrule the State's Intrusive Flavored Tobacco Ban?

Voters have shown a propensity to veto the meddlesome efforts of lawmakers in the past.

Ballotpedia

These are the most expensive contested elections in the California State Assembly

Elections for all 80 seats in the California State Assembly will take place on Nov. 8, 2022.

Ballotpedia

These are the most expensive contested elections in the California State Senate

Elections for 20 of 40 seats in the California State Senate will take place on Nov. 8, 2022. Democrats hold a 31-9 majority heading into the election.

Tribune News Service

Kenan Thompson to host People’s Choice Awards with Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny nominated

Live from Southern California, it’s the People’s Choice Awards.

Tribune News Service

Biotech and tech job cuts widen in Bay Area as companies chop workers

NEWARK, California — Employers have decided to eliminate hundreds of biotech and tech jobs in the East Bay with layoffs at companies in Emeryville and Newark, a fresh round of unsettling job cuts during uncertain economic times.

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