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Michael Hiltzik: Obscenely rich dialysis firms are spending millions to defeat California's tighter regulations

A good rule of thumb for assessing the value of a business is to look at how much its owners will spend to defend it from regulations. By that measure, the dialysis business is very valuable indeed.

Los Angeles Times

Schumer's Legalization Bill Is 'Like California Cannabis Program On Steroids' Says Industry Expert & Military Veteran

Many industry experts believe that federal cannabis legalization is inevitable. Everything seems to be pointing in that direction, although, they also agree that it's not happening any time soon.

Benzinga

California Democratic candidates have raised $89.8 million more than Republicans

In California, state-level candidates have raised $281.2 billion between Jan. 1, 2021, and Sept. 24, 2022. Democratic candidates have raised $173.9 million and Republican candidates have raised $84.1 million.

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Intruder seeking U.S. House Speaker Pelosi at her home beats husband with hammer

An intruder demanding to see U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke into her San Francisco home and attacked her husband with a hammer early on Friday, officials said, in an assault that stoked fears about political violence ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

Reuters

Gavin Newsom Does His Best Jimmy Carter Impression

California's governor is following Carter's disastrous energy policies at a time when the state's residents are suffering from already high prices.

Reason

Port Royal Golf Club, host of Butterfield Bermuda Championship, is the shortest golf course on the PGA Tour in 2022

There are only four courses that measure shorter than 7,000 yards on the PGA Tour in 2022.

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California Sen. Alex Padilla is campaigning hard — just not for himself

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — On an unusually cool morning in the Central Valley, Sen. Alex Padilla rallied campaign volunteers, urging them to knock on doors and phone voters to promote a Democratic candidate in one of the most competitive congressional districts in the nation.

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Editorial: Court cases following #MeToo movement show victims’ bravery in describing abuse

Five years after the #MeToo movement exposed pervasive sexual harassment and abuse in politics, show business and many other industries, cases playing out in California courtrooms are revealing how difficult it is for women to come forward with accusations against powerful men. They’re experiencing verbal abuse, fighting shame, and confronting…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Here in San Quentin, I see why solitary confinement must end

Advocates almost succeeded this year in curbing the use of solitary confinement in California’s prisons and jails. The California Mandela Act, named after the long-imprisoned South African president, received the support it needed in August to pass the Assembly 41-16 and land on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. He vetoed the…

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: California voters don't like where the state's headed. But they still want Newsom in office

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Most California voters think the state is headed in the wrong direction, yet they intend to reelect the governor who's leading us there. That seems wrongheaded.

Los Angeles Times

California union alleges that fast-food effort to block new labor law is 'willfully misleading voters'

California's largest union on Thursday lodged a complaint with state officials alleging that a fast-food industry coalition violated state election rules in its campaign to block a landmark labor law from going into effect.

Los Angeles Times

Federal prison worker pleads guilty to inmate sex abuse

One of five workers accused of sexually abusing inmates at a federal women’s prison in California has pleaded guilty and could face up to two years in prison

The Independent UK

2.1 million earthquake early warnings issued for San Francisco Bay Area quake

Many San Francisco Bay Area residents were given several seconds' warning before shaking arrived from a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck under the mountains east of San Jose, California, this week.

Los Angeles Times

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Los Angeles Times

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.

Tribune News Service

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.

Tribune News Service

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.

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - US

‘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

WEKU

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.

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

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

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