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• NR: California University -- Dianne Feinstein Husband Admits Helping Well-Connected Applicants
• SFC: Dianne Feinstein's husband named in UC admissions scandal, says he wrote recommendation letters for connected applicants 'a bunch of times'
• SJMN: Dianne Feinstein's husband identified as UC regent who recommended less qualified student
• AP: Dianne Feinstein's husband named in UC admissions scandal
• SFC: Wiener says he'll move to ban fracking in California, following Newsom's lead
• SFC: Bay Area officials' plan to combat climate change: force people to WFH
• Reason: Newsom Attempts To Mandate Full Transition to Electric Cars by 2035
• CG: Responses to Gov. Newsom's Executive Order Banning Gas-Powered Cars
• CalM: Could Newsom's big, bold car ban hurt Biden in swing states?
• SFC: S.F. city attorney seeks to clean up Tenderloin drug dealing with new approach
• SFC: Contra Costa D.A. will no longer charge low-level drug possession cases
• Reason: Department of Labor Proposes New Rule Protecting the Right To Be a Gig Worker
• CalM: California Exodus: An online industry seizes COVID-19 to sell the Red State Dream
• FresBee: Gov. Newsom told this California town they'd get safe drinking water. It's been a year
• CG: Protests Over The Breonna Taylor Decision Erupt Across California
• PE: Black Lives Matter stand near Murrieta targeted for harassment, family says
• SFC: Breonna Taylor protests: Motorists slow traffic on 3 Bay Area bridges
• OCReg: Nearly 80 demonstrators decry deputy shooting of Black man in San Clemente
• OCReg: San Clemente declares 9 p.m. curfew in wake of protests following deputy shooting of Black man
• SacBee: PG&E safety shutoffs: About 21,000 Northern California customers may lose power this weekend
• LAT $: App-based food delivery companies must work with restaurants under new California law
• AP: California wildfire threatening lucrative cannabis farm area
• SFC: 'Triple whammy' of smoke, heat, smog to spoil Bay Area weekend air quality
• FresBee: Why didn't Shaver Lake get torched by Creek Fire? One man's belief in healthy burning
• LAT $: 'If you think it's bad now, just wait': California faces new fire threats, further straining resources
• AP: Scorched California faces more hot, dry and windy weather
• LADN: L.A. County cites dozens of businesses, churches for coronavirus health-order violations
• VCStar $: Ventura gym found in contempt for staying indoors
• SDUT: Verizon, AT&T to pay $116M to settle California whistleblower lawsuit that includes San Diego County
• SacBee: California schools, agencies to receive bulk of $116 million settlement over wireless charges
• LADN: Parents sue LAUSD over distance learning plan
• CalM: California for all? Few public schools pursuing elementary waivers
• AP: Judge says 2020 census must continue for another month
• Californians Are Voting On Another Dialysis Ballot Measure. What To Know About Prop. 23
• LAT $: Pac-12 votes to have seven-game football season beginning in November
• SacBee: Anti-vaccine group aided effort to overturn COVID order in county where health officer quit
• CG: Project Roomkey To Wrap Up Hotel Stays For Homeless In California
• AmerSpec: Winning the Water Wars
• CalM: Is Newsom serious about banning gas-powered cars?
• OCReg: EDD woes underscore need for California to focus on the basics
• FH: Rebuilding the Small Business Economy in California
• OCReg: Proposition 22 is vital for workers and California's economic recovery
• FH: Newsom promotes California to be the Vintage Car Capital
• CG: How to Realign California Politics
• FH: Time to Get Back to a Better "California Adventure"
• SacBee: Developer of luxury apartment building in Sacramento suing to block nearby homeless housing
• SacBee: How Sacramento County schools will try to stay open - even if coronavirus hits campuses
• SFC: Facial recognition tech used to build SFPD gun case, despite city ban
• KQED: Corrupt SF Official Used Nonprofits to Funnel 'Pay to Play' Cash
• SFC: S.F. Mayor Breed commits $28.5 million in virus aid to city's Latinos
• FresBee: Fresno residents demand auditor resign after withholding police brutality investigation
• Foster Farms reports COVID-19 rate under 1% for turkey plant workers in Turlock
• AP: White supremacist killed after shooting California deputy
• CalCoast: Sheriff's deputy shot in the leg in Templeton, gunman killed
• VCStar $: Board delays oil project, likely dooming itnews
• VCStar $: COVID-19 update: 52 new cases, one new death
• LAT $: L.A. Metro cuts budget by $1.2 billion, locking in steep reductions to bus, rail service
• LAT $: L.A. County D.A. hands off review of fatal LAPD shooting involving daughter of top police union official
• LAT $: Los Angeles D.A. will not prosecute KPCC reporter arrested after shooting of sheriff's deputies
• SBSun: San Bernardino County reports 10 new coronavirus deaths
• PE: 20 tons of illegally grown marijuana seized in Riverside County raids
• SDUT: San Diego moves to ban contractor at center of gift-giving controversy
• VOSD: Barrios Worked With Laborers as a Council Staffer Before Taking a Job There
• SDUT: San Diego Unified school board candidates talk reopening, school funding
• SDUT: Utilities commission OKs controversial power line project from Escondido to San Marcos
• SDUT: Major overhaul slated for strip mall next to UTC, new trolley line

Sincerely,