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☆ Los Angeles Homeless Population Jumped 10%, Resuming Prepandemic Growth
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Reparations for Black Californians Face Uphill Climb in State Legislature
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | Photographs Marissa Leshnov For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SACRAMENTO—The first task force in the nation exploring how a state could make reparations to Black Americans hurt by slavery and discrimination is set to issue a nearly-1,000 page report to California’s legislature later this month. Following two years of work, California’s task force is likely to suggest dozens of measures that could cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

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☆ Second Flight Carries Migrants From New Mexico to Sacramento
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Alicia A. Caldwell | Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Facebook Parent Threatens to Remove News From Its Platforms in California
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Alexandra Bruell | Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ California Governor Wants to Cut Red Tape for Green Energy Projects
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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But housing costs have soared in the state over the past decade due to a lack of new construction, making it difficult for some students to live close enough to those universities to attend them. In Santa Cruz, the problem has been exacerbated by a flood of remote workers who arrived from the Bay Area during the pandemic and a 2020 wildfire that destroyed 900 housing units countywide. Santa Cruz is the second most expensive market for renters in the nation.

☆ In California, Desperate College Students Compete for Spots in Trailer Park
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | Photographs Clara Mokri For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Laura Chappell lives with six other roommates in a house near the University of California, Santa Cruz that has termite damage, annual rat infestations, and gopher holes throughout the backyard. Two of the seven spaces they use as bedrooms are unheated and unpermitted. She pays $963 a month, nearly half of her take-home pay, for the smallest of them.

☆ California’s Housing Crisis Leaves College Students Eager to Live in Trailers
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | Photographs Clara Mokri For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ California Capitol Shut Down Following Threat by Shooting Suspect
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Capitol building has been temporarily closed while officers search for the suspect and his vehicle. California’s Capitol building was temporarily closed Thursday after law-enforcement officials identified a credible threat from a person suspected of being involved in a shooting outside a local hospital the night before. In a statement, the California Highway Patrol, which manages security at the Capitol in Sacramento, said it had been notified that a man involved in shootings in two nearby suburbs had also made threats against the Capitol.

The first test in the race to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California is a year away, but the top three contenders are already furiously raising money, crisscrossing the state and amassing endorsements in what could become one of the most expensive statewide contests in recent memory. Reps. Barbara Lee , Katie Porter and Adam Schiff have been hitting the campaign trail hard, shoring up support and introducing themselves to new voters since Mrs. Feinstein announced in February that she would retire at the end of her term. The trio are some of the biggest names in Democratic politics but the field appears wide open, with no candidate drawing more than a quarter of the vote in an early poll.

☆ California Gov. Newsom Updates Plan to Combat State’s Homelessness Problem
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

California Gov. Gavin Newsom rankled big-city mayors and other local leaders last year when he temporarily froze state funding for their homelessness programs and demanded they set more ambitious goals for moving people off the streets. Many have now risen to that challenge, Mr. Newsom said Thursday, and can unlock $1 billion more in state funds for efforts aimed at moving people into housing and preventing others from landing on the streets.

☆ March Madness, Vasectomies Are an Unlikely Pairing Filling Urology Offices
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

March is a special time for college basketball fans, who kick back on the couch for days to watch the two-week NCAA tournament known as March Madness. It also has become a shining moment for some urologists, who see the games as a perfect time to peddle vasectomies.

☆ California Mass Transit Hopes for Bailout in Already Tight Budget
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART, is more reliant on passenger fares than most California transit systems, leaving it particularly vulnerable. Public transit agencies across California are asking the state for a bailout, saying they face a looming fiscal crisis due to lagging ridership that could otherwise force them to cut service, lay off employees or shut down some lines and stations. Since the start of the pandemic, some $69 billion in federal emergency funding has kept buses, trains and subways across the country running. But most of California’s transit agencies say they expect that funding to run out within two years. Meanwhile, ridership numbers remain well below prepandemic levels as many high-income workers continue to work from home at least some of the time.

☆ Ukrainians Survey Damage After Barrage of Russian Missiles Hit Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Motive Sought in Monterey Park Shooting as Families Mourn Victims Investigators continue to search for a motive in a mass shooting that killed 11 people celebrating the Lunar New Year at a dance ballroom in Monterey Park, Calif. Meanwhile, victims are being remembered by grieving families. WSJ’s Christine Mai-Duc reports on the community in mourning. Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

MONTEREY PARK, Calif.—An eleventh person shot last weekend at a dance ballroom in Monterey Park, Calif. died Monday, officials said, as authorities continued to investigate why a 72-year-old man carried out the attack on a roomful of people celebrating the Lunar New Year. Law-enforcement officials named Huu Can Tran as the gunman. Tran took his own life Sunday morning after officers surrounded his vehicle in a shopping-plaza parking lot in Torrance, Calif., about 30 miles from where the shooting took place.

☆ California’s Newsom Proposes Budget Cuts as State Faces $22.5 Billion Deficit
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a leaner budget Tuesday that would cut spending on climate change and transportation programs in response to a projected $22.5 billion budget shortfall. The $297 billion spending plan released Tuesday represents an $11 billion decrease from the current year’s budget. It comes just months after the Democrat signed a record-busting $308 billion budget, buoyed by a more than $100 billion surplus. Mr. Newsom said that the whiplash demonstrates the effects of California’s progressive tax system on state revenues, which rely heavily on personal income taxes, particularly from the ultrawealthy.

☆ California Faces $22.5 Billion Deficit
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is leading a state that relies heavily on personal income taxes. California is facing an estimated $22.5 billion budget shortfall in the coming fiscal year, according to a spending plan released Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom . The proposal includes $297 billion in spending, an $11 billion decrease from the current year.

California Rep. Katie Porter , a favorite of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, said she would run for Senate in 2024, the first big name to enter what is expected to be a hotly contested race to succeed longtime Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein . Ms. Porter, 49 years old, is one of just a handful of progressive members who represent battleground districts. A law professor who had no previous electoral experience, Ms. Porter was one of seven California Democrats who flipped GOP-held districts in 2018, riding an anti-President Donald Trump wave that handed her party the House majority. She narrowly won reelection in 2022.

☆ California’s Torrential Rains Don’t Mean the Drought Is Over
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

One of the wettest two-week periods on record in California brought much-needed water to its reservoirs and snow to its mountains, but researchers and officials said it would take several more winter storms to make a dent in the drought that has sapped reservoirs, fallowed farmland and forced homeowners to let lawns turn brown. California has been drenched in the past few weeks by heavy rains and, at higher elevations, snow, caused by an atmospheric river, a flowing column of condensed water vapor in the atmosphere that produces significant levels of rain and snow. Swaths of the state received 15 or more inches of rain over the past two weeks, according to the National Weather Service.

☆ Hawaii Is Still Waiting for Big-Spending Japanese Tourists to Return
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tourism spending in Hawaii recovered to prepandemic levels this year, but state officials say they are counting on a return of Japanese tourists to stave off a downturn next year. Armando Dinong used to count on buses coming like clockwork every December to bring crowds of high-spending Japanese tourists to the Waikele Premium Outlets in Hawaii, where he manages a luxury luggage shop. “It would be like a tornado in the room,” Mr. Dinong says. “They were the No. 1 source for our sales.”

☆ Harvey Weinstein Convicted of Three Sex Crimes in California
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Harvey Weinstein saw his Hollywood empire collapse after allegations of sexual harassment were publicized. LOS ANGELES—Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of three counts of sexual assault and related crimes in Los Angeles and acquitted of another. The jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts.

☆ Major Winter Storm Begins to Move Across U.S. Ahead of Holidays
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ California Lawmakers to Consider Penalties on Oil Companies to Fight High Gas Prices
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | Benoît Morenne | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said his proposal’s main goal was to deter oil companies from setting artificially high prices. California legislators opened a special session Monday to explore the possibility of levying penalties on the oil industry for what Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has called price-gouging of consumers. Mr. Newsom declined to provide specific thresholds, saying the details were yet to be worked out with lawmakers.

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