Dear John,

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• ModBee: Local pension costs grew in California at nearly six times national rate, new data show
• SacBee: California's largest teachers union spent $1 million a month to restrict charter schools
• CG: Assemblywoman Presents OC United Way Veterans Big State Check With Her Signature On It
• SFC: Hundreds of homeless people board a bus out of SF every year. What happens to them next?
• LAT $: California has the most homeless people of any state. But L.A. is still a national model
• SFC: Oakland surpasses other large California cities in per-capita homelessness
• SDUT: Sleeping Giant: How the Latino vote could influence California and the presidency in 2020
• SDUT: Governor signs pet insurance bill challenged by L.A. consumer group
• CalCoast: Local governments doing less at a higher cost
• SFC: SFPD chief's spokesman ID'd journalist before notorious raid
• SFC: More than 100 people flood SF school to see mural slated for destruction
• AP: California school draws crowd to view mural some call racist
• SFC: Could Hetch Hetchy Valley be worth $100 billion?
• OCReg: Paperwork woes keep some low-income moms and kids from enrolling in Medi-Cal - is an 'express lane' the fix?
• OCReg: UC, union workers reach tentative agreement including pay hikes of 20% or more
• AP: Survivors recount California shooting; motive still unknown
• LAT $: Gilroy shooter did not appear to target people based on race, authorities say
• AP: California reopens applications for pot equity program
• KQED: Could PG&E Face Criminal Charges for Camp Fire? Maybe, Butte County DA Indicates
• SFC: PG&E lobbying spending falls
• SacBee: Bankrupt PG&E makes deal to cut solar power prices. Won't abandon CA's clean energy goals
• AP: New California law frees man facing life term for burglary
• LAT $: Column One: He'd been kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years. Who is he, and is it possible he's conscious?
• NR: Kamala Harris Stumbles at Second Democratic Debate
• CG: Sen. Kamala Harris Takedown by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard at Dem Debates
• SFC: Fact-checking the Democratic debate attacks against Kamala Harris
• CalM: Seabirds eating plastic. Recyclers struggling. This is what California's waste crisis looks like
• SacBee: Water systems must notify Californians about these cancer-linked chemicals under new law
• SBSun: Lowe's cutting thousands of store jobs as it seeks to outsource workers
• SBSun: Inland Rep. Pete Aguilar supports Donald Trump impeachment inquiry
• AmerSpec: California's Toxic Brew
• NR: Against the Republican Daddy State
• OCReg: The crippling cost of doing business in California
• FH: The Return to Serfdom
• FH: Poll Finds Voters Behind CA Confronting Global Warming, but are They Willing to Pay?
• FH: 5 Ways In Which The Tax Return-for-Ballot-Access Law Is a Mistake
• NR: Reagan and Race
• NR: Why the GOP Has Declined in California
• SacBee: Commentary: California's two-tier society
• SacBee: Nearly 100,000 millennials in the Sacramento area live at home. Why your kids can't move out
• SFC: Reports: Graffiti with N-word not being investigated as hate crime
• SJMN: Permits for new Bay Area homes, apartments drop sharply
• SFC: San Jose police union is raffling off a semiautomatic rifle, former police auditor says it's 'indefensible'
• Republican businesswoman enters San Jose council race
• San Jose, nonprofits wait for ruling on Google negotiations lawsuit
• SJMN: Google San Jose lawsuit: City failed to record closed meetings as required by law
• FresBee: Trump gave billions to farmers for Chinese tariffs. How much did the Valley, California get?
• FresBee: Her son was suicidal. Now, a Fresno County school district must make changes, judge says
• VCStar $: Casitas faces tight deadline to fix diversion issues
• LAT $: The streaming gold rush is bringing major development to a decidedly un-Hollywood area: Pacoima
• LADN: Family of Lancaster 10-year-old who died after alleged torture sues LA County for $50 million
• LADN: Judge rules Panorama City 600-unit mixed-use housing project needs more environmental review
• OCReg: Confederate monument defaced last month has been removed from Santa Ana Cemetery
• VOC: Sheriff's Department Helps Vet the Grand Jurors Who Investigate It
• VOC: Anaheim City Council Members Clash Over Angel Stadium, Speaking Rules, and City-Owned Lands
• PE: Gas line rupture at UC Riverside leads to evacuation of 2 dorms
• SDUT: Editorial: Gap between San Diego County, L.A. County on mental health diversion is big
• SDUT: Otay Mesa brush fire burns 490 acres near border; all evacuations lifted
• VOSD: 'A Classic Conflict of Interest': Entangled Business Deals at Charter School Chain Learn4Life
• SDUT: Rent cap still a possibility for San Diego by year end

Sincerely,