THE BUZZ: California will make a massive shift to zero-emission vehicles in the coming years, but voters don’t seem keen on funding it. A new poll released last night by the Public Policy Institute of California found just 41 percent of likely voters would vote yes to Proposition 30, the voting measure that would tax …
A specter haunts California’s affluent suburbs and beachside communities: the “builder’s remedy.” In California, the state sets housing goals for local governments. Under a ten-year old law, cities and counties that fail to meet those goals or submit their plans on time must allow any housing anywhere at any height or density, as long as …
Instead, state education officials — who initially appeared to be delaying the release of student scores until after the election — divided in a way that would have guaranteed to block expected coverage. be a pandemic-driven sharp decline. Today Californians get their first statewide look at test scores that measure the pandemic’s toll on students …
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If you watched any of the Dodgers-Padres postseason playoff games on TV, you almost certainly saw a political ad. This is not unusual in the run-up to the election. In fact, there are fewer propositions on the ballot in California than usual, but that doesn’t make it any less confusing to figure out how to …
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Amid concerns about a potential winter wave of COVID-19, cases linked to newer subvariants of the coronavirus are beginning to rise in California as officials in Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area warn that a long-term decline in new infections appears to be stalling. It’s unclear whether this trend in coronavirus cases …
by: Aaron Tolentino, Michael Bartiromo, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Oct 21, 2022 / 7:14 AM PDT Updated Oct 21, 2022 / 7:32 AM PDT SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) — California police have launched an investigation into the discovery of a car found buried in the yard of a Silicon Valley mansion. Landscapers working on …
California’s pandemic response saved tens of thousands of lives, protected the economy, distributed nation-leading economic assistance and built an unprecedented public health infrastructure The SMARTER plan will maintain California’s operational readiness to support communities and rapidly respond to outbreaks SACRAMENTO – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the COVID-19 state of emergency will end on …
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After a few days in the fall in Southern California, summer weather returned with cool temperatures and a bit of rain. Temperatures in the entire region hit the mid-1990s on Wednesday. Los Angeles International Airport recorded a high of 93 degrees, setting a daily record set in 1981. Long Beach set its daily record of …
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Are high speed trains profitable? He said there were only a few examples of profitable high-speed rail networks, due to the rare combination of ridership and distance. For example, most companies that run Japan’s Shinkansen or "bullet train" the lines operate for a profit, as do some high-speed trains on the French state-owned SNCF network. …
