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‘Everybody’s been denied some form of care,’ said one California mental health advocate. Now, lawmakers are advancing new bills on behavioral health coverage. cal.news/4hjJLIM 📝 Jocelyn Wiener 📸 Gabriel Hongsdusit

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New from us: Elon Musk is scheduled to get a briefing at the Pentagon about the United States' war plan against China tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

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“I do think that some of the people who have been on his show have been a little fringe."

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Tariffs, mass immigrant deportations and a drop in tourism all could spell trouble for Inland Empire’s economy. cal.news/42gtiAM 📝 Deborah Brennan 📸 Pablo Unzueta

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@calmatters.org and PBS SoCal on the impact of President Trump’s unlawful federal funding freeze for California small businesses. Our small businesses drive our economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0jX...

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NEWS: University of California will enforce a systemwide hiring freeze, UC President Michael Drake just said at UC Regents meeting. Freeze is to prepare for a planned 8% state budget cut to UC as well as federal cuts to public health and research that are responsible for billions of dollars for UC.

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NEW from me: Some U.S. citizens have already been caught up in Trump's immigration dragnet. More will be. A side note: more reports of citizens detained by immigration officials emerged even as we prepped this story for publication. For @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/more...

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Housing authorities were advised to move forward with “the expectation that no additional funding from HUD will be forthcoming.”

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SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI. www.wired.com/story/federa...

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Vandalism against Tesla showrooms and charging stations continues to escalate. We tracked at least three separate incidents involving molotov cocktails, the coordinated theft of nearly 50 Tesla tires and spray-painted swastikas from New York to New Mexico. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Major rate hikes coming for State Farm customers as regulators try to keep the insurer operating in California, @levisu.bsky.social reports calmatters.org/economy/2025...

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Breaking: California approves State Farm’s request to raise home insurance premiums by an average of 22%, but there are a few conditions. See what they are: cal.news/4itV6Hb 📝 Levi Sumagaysay 📸 Patrick T. Fallon

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Must-hear interview.

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AI can help businesses charge you more based on how it evaluates your personal history and desires. California lawmakers want to end that price discrimination. cal.news/4hCx9fY 📝 Khari Johnson 📸 Florence Middleton

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Several California Republicans represent communities that rely on Medicaid for health care coverage. Their recent budget-cutting votes angered some constituents. cal.news/4iIU2zc 📝 Kristen Hwang

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The bills include putting lawmakers on the FAIR Plan governing board; giving Californians tax breaks toward insurance premiums; and trying to hold oil companies accountable for climate catastrophes.

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The sudden decline of Tesla may be the starkest symbol yet of resistance to Musk’s regime in the federal government, where he is leading efforts to fire workers and decimate agencies.

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After @governor.ca.gov called it “deeply unfair” for transgender athletes to participate in girls’ sports, Republican lawmakers urged Gavin Newsom to support legislation to ban them in California. Newsom refused to take a position on their bills. calmatters.org/politics/202...

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“I find it disgusting that these fraudulent tow operators exploited fire survivors during their time of distress,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger said in a statement. cal.news/41rq3F1 📝 Deborah Brennan 📸 Joel Angel Juarez

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The Fremont city council has revised a new city camping ordinance, removing what had become a controversial clause — first reported on by CalMatters — that could have punished those “aiding and abetting” encampments. cal.news/41uRIFj 📝 Richard Procter

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We’re investigating what happens when your car gets towed. Have you ever had your car towed in California? Share your story with CalMatters: cal.news/4byylj5 📝 Byrhonda Lyons 📸 iStock

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California and other states and counties are using a legal strategy that took down Big Tobacco, hoping to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage they have long denied. But many obstacles remain. cal.news/3EYCW1Y 📝 Alejandro Lazo 📸 Justin Sullivan

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If Twohands is convicted of illegal camping, a misdemeanor, he could face a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. But even without jail, trials come with all sorts of additional risks and hardship for unhoused defendants. cal.news/43bsQog 📝 Marisa Kendall

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At the Presidio national park, one of my happy places in the Bay Area.

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Today’s a good day to resurface this. High-speed rail is an economic project as much as it is a transit one. California’s conservative farm belt, a place the president thinks lacks water in January, views the bullet train in a much different light than Washington calmatters.org/commentary/2...

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Although there have been few, if any, reports of immigration arrests at or near schools recently, E. and countless other parents are gripped with fear that if they go to the store, work or school, they’ll never see their families again. cal.news/3Dceutb 📝 Carolyn Jones

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"Perez and other small business owners, allies and experts worry that a freeze could mean fewer opportunities for entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses, which could lead to fewer jobs and less spending and investment for communities ..." from @levisu.bsky.social calmatters.org/economy/2025...

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DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

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A spate of new bills in California and other states would protect consumers from electricity rate hikes that subsidize data centers. cal.news/4k3Gujm 📝 Khari Johnson

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I sincerely doubt any journalist of color I know would be allowed to write "I didn't know this important aspect of US history and read the Wikipedia summary of it to catch up" in a prominent newsletter read by every important person in the nation's capital

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California's small businesses — employers to more than half the state’s workforce — are staring down what some owners, experts and advocates say could be immense negative consequences from President Donald Trump’s slew of executive orders. cal.news/4i4hlU0 📝 Levi Sumagaysay

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Sounds familiar if you followed what happened at Twitter.

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After @calmatters.org found that a law meant to disclose who is paying for California legislators' sponsored travel was used only twice in seven years, state regulators looked into it. How they suggest fixing the law: calmatters.org/politics/202...

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Breaking: California’s Insurance Commissioner rejects State Farm’s request for an average 22% premium hike. This could set up a showdown between the state and its biggest insurer. cal.news/41cjlnr 📝 Levi Sumagaysay 📸 iStock

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NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

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Fewer CA high school seniors are completing federal financial aid applications than in past years. Some analysts say is a sign that students may fear the Trump administration will use their sensitive data for immigration enforcement. cal.news/4hzVEep 📝 Mikhail Zinshteyn

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ICYMI. Mobile home park residents are more likely to be uninsured or underinsured, so they — and mobile home park owners — may not be able to rebuild.

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After a 2022 CalMatters series documenting long waits and low payouts for workers who claim their employers have shorted them on wages, California lawmakers have now proposed bills to try to ease the backlogs. cal.news/4gHaK0H 📝 Jeanne Kuang

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Federal employee with a data role told me that a document was removed from employee access because it had the word "inclusion" in it. As in, "inclusion of data in our estimates."

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“I thought they were going to be targeting criminals,” said a woman who voted for Trump and talked to my colleague @wendyfry.bsky.social. The woman's husband, who came to the country legally and has a green card, went to an SF immigration office in late January and still hasn’t come home, she said.

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After saying it would run out of funds by March, California’s last-resort fire insurance provider will impose a special charge of $1 billion on homeowners and insurance companies, the first such move in more than three decades. cal.news/3QhzstL 📝 Levi Sumagaysay

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A judge this evening temporarily halted the cuts to California and the 21 other states that sued. Story updated.

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Among the protests: 50 people turned out at a Tesla location in San Luis Obispo, on the Central California coast. “We’re here because we don’t know what else to do. We can’t stand idly by while our democracy is being destroyed with all kinds of illegal activities.” www.theverge.com/news/609621/...

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California and 21 other states are suing the Trump administration to stop it from slashing key funding universities rely on to conduct scientific research and discovery. cal.news/4gEEWt8 📝 Mikhail Zinshteyn

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President Trump's flurry of changes on immigration promises a dramatic crackdown. California pushed back in court last time, but may be in a tougher position now, experts say. cal.news/3CKAaMQ 📝 Jeanne Kuang