Dear John,

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• SFC: How California's voters may have saved Trump from releasing his taxes
• CalM: Unions win in politics, lose members
• FresBee: Housing construction in California is decreasing. Can anything be done about it?
• FresBee: California is experiencing a housing shortage. Why are housing permits down 20 percent?
• SJMN: Endangered Bay Area species: the new home
• SFC: Developer converts units to affordable housing: Tenants face eviction
• AP: Big tech or big labor? 2020 Democrats line up with unions
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• SFC: Will Gavin Newsom's plan lower prescription drug costs in California?
• CG: Federal Judge Rules on San Francisco Settlement to Eliminate Cash Bail Ahead of 2020 Ballot Initiative
• LAT $: Heat wave brings extreme temperatures to parts of Southern California
• CalM: What to know as California's peak fire months loom
• VCStar $: Brush fire in Lockwood Valley summons air tankers 12:48 AM EDT Sep 2, 2019
• SacBee: Transient, 74, arrested on suspicion of igniting vegetation fires in Placer County
• AP: RFK assassin back in California prison after stabbing
• SDUT: These six projects could fix the cross-border sewage spills
• SDUT: Fewer immigrants apply for special visa reserved for crime victims
• SDUT: Brit to HOA: 'The flag is absolutely not coming down'
• SFC: Sen. Feinstein's colorful drawings from '90s held in high regard among colleagues
• LAT $: How an L.A. man with cancer got a parking ticket while in the hospital and ended up losing his car
• AP: California hotel death investigated as suicide
• OCReg: The follies and excesses of Proposition 65
• NR: We Need to Talk about Joe Biden
• OCReg: Court ruling upholds ban on public funding of political campaigns
• OCReg: Democratic socialists try to soft-pedal socialism
• NR: A Parable of 'Privilege-Hoarding'
• Forty trains a day through Altamont at up to 125 mph? It could happen, weary drivers
• SFC: Campos listens to unions, pulls back boycott over Wilsey's GOP ties
• SFC: Another Labor Day arrives without a Harry Bridges statue in SF
• SFC: Deaths on SF's streets up. Traffic enforcement is down.
• SFC: Phil Matier: Presidio not immune from vehicle break-ins
• Why Modesto's homeless tent city deserves praise
• FresBee: 'True killers': SLO County has had the most murders this year since 2006
• LADN: With new state law, Pico Rivera's water is now considered tainted
• LAT $: From the street to the mayor's office: Assessing L.A.'s new initiative on homelessness
• OCReg: O.C. jail inmate who had been in distress is taken to hospital, later dies
• OCReg: Golfers decry loss of popular Mile Square Park course while others push for open space there
• SBSun: $550 million price tag for the Gold Line to Claremont and Montclair
• SBSun: Former Rialto chief comes out of retirement to clean up dysfunction at Police Department
• PE: Homeowners in fire-prone areas of Riverside and San Bernardino counties losing insurance
• LAT $: Earthquake: 3.3 quake reported in Lake Elsinore, Calif.

Sincerely,