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• CalM: How an abortion rights law ended up bankrolling anti-abortion forces in CA
• SFC: CCSF's exec pay debacle: College appeared to break rules, its lawyer says
• CG: PG&E Faces A Possible State Takeover This Week As Gov. Newsom Prepares to Meet Utility Executives
• CG: Utility Breakup Plan: Two Attorneys Say 'PG&E Too Big to Succeed'
• KQED: Judge Orders PG&E to Explain Equipment's Possible Role in Sparking Kincade Fire
• AP: PG&E agrees to extend deadline for wildfire damage claims
• SacBee: PG&E's spending on lobbying climbed amid bankruptcy, rate hike requests
• AP: California special election held amid fire, blackout fears
• SacBee: What to know about Tuesday's Northern California election for Assembly District 1
• OCReg: 5 candidates vie for open San Clemente City Council seat, in all mail-in election
• PE: Riverside City Council elections for Wards 1, 3, 5 and 7 are Tuesday
• SFC: Another thing for Californians to worry about: The Big One we've been dreading might not be an earthquake
• FH: The California exodus is real
• LAT $: California conservatives leaving the state for 'redder pastures'
• SFC: California's plastic pollution fight may be headed to voters
• KQED: Trump Tries to Shred California Environmental Rep as Part of Multipronged Assault
• KQED: Trump Demands California 'Clean' Forests
• SFC: Court says more languages must be offered in election materials
• SFC: Can Airbnb carry out 'party house' ban? Are its rules part of problem?
• SFC: Orinda grieves over shooting, councilman calls for Airbnb rental ban
• AP: University of California, researchers reach contract deal
• VCStar $: Maria Fire reaches 9,999 acres, 90% containment
• SDUT: Have California's renewable energy mandates hampered wildfire prevention efforts?
• LADN: FBI investigating white powder mailed to office of former Rep. Katie Hill
• Reason: L.A. to Uber: Either Hand Over Realtime Data on Scooter Riders or Get Out of Town
• LAT $: L.A. suspends Uber's permit to rent out electric scooters and bikes
• SJMN: Uber keeps bleeding with another $1.16 billion in losses
• LAT $: After a chaotic week, LAX to expand Uber, Lyft and taxi pickup lot
• VOSD: Victims of Teacher Misconduct Say Schools Should Go Beyond Checking Boxes
• AP: Lawsuit filed over California dialysis clinic law on costs
• LAT $: Does a rain-free October signal a return to drought in California?
• FresBee: Judge delays Nunes suit after McClatchy lawyer's home heavily damaged in wildfire
• AP: California illegal pot seizures top $1.5 billion in value
• AP: California cannabis group wants tighter vaping-safety rules
• LADN: Rise in preterm births gives California a 'B' grade from March of Dimes
• SDUT: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Mike Levin talk government reform, ethics in Oceanside
• LAT $: California's strict vaccination law will have only 'modest' impact, study says
• SFC: Judge rules federal guidelines on campus sexual assault can't be challenged
• AP: Apple commits $2.5B to combat California housing crisis
• SBSun: New training standards adopted to protect janitors from sexual abuse on the job
• Reason: Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Hear Sanctuary Cities Case
• SacBee: California's presidential primary is up for grabs. How to win it is the question
• FresBee: This California firefighter nearly died. Then voters laid him off - in fight for lower taxes
• FH: The Cost of Education
• SDUT: Editorial: Why SDG&E is so far ahead of PG&E on wildfire safety
• CapWkly: CA120: California's Voters Choice Act and the 2020 elections
• FH: Thank you, PG&E!
• NR: Should We Give California or Texas Back?
• OCReg: Pension costs hitting home across the state - hard
• CG: California Author Peter Collier Passes Away at 80
• LAT $: Third quake in a week hits Kincade fire region in Sonoma County
• SFC: D.A. challenger Tung says Loftus' team tried to get her to run for judge instead
• SFC: Was Halloween shooting linked to quadruple slaying in SF? Police are investigating
• SJMN: Milpitas teacher who wore blackface to school should have been removed from campus 'immediately,' superintendent says
• SJMN: Santa Clara County workers agree to mediation, suspending strike and contract vote
• SJMN: Theranos case: Judge to set hard deadline as lawyers bicker over evidence
• New Modesto manufacturing plant Entekra could turn city into hub for home building
• Public invited to check out new Modesto homeless shelter
• FresBee: Fresno County is in 'state of preterm birth crisis among women of color.' What's being done?
• AP: Suspects in slayings slip into walls to flee California jail
• VCStar $: Oxnard to mull Fisherman's Wharf, Airbnb
• VCStar $: Families share stories of victims, life after Thousand Oaks bar shooting
• LAT $: L.A. voided old tickets, warrants. It won't help homeless people
• LADN: As fear of Sepulveda Basin fires and flooding mounts, third phase of homeless encampment cleanup begins
• LADN: What do you think of LAX's new airport pickup system? L.A. City Council committee wants to know
• OCReg: Santa Ana voters to fill vacant seats Tuesday on city council, school board
• OCReg: Purchase of Banning Ranch for coastal preserve buoyed by $50 million donation
• VOC: Fullerton Resident Challenges Judge's Decision to Block Publishing of Secret City Hall Documents
• OCReg: Internal emails give insight into controversial removal of memorial bench in Huntington Beach
• PE: Hemet police chief Rob Webb to retire
• SBSun: San Bernardino could give 9% pay raises to police chief, assistant police chief this week
• VOSD: Dozens of Rape Kits From SDPD's Backlog Have Yielded DNA Database Hits
• SDUT: Donations to Anderson's 2020 county supervisor campaign draw questions
• SDUT: County supervisors reverse course, approve voting satellite offices for 2020

Sincerely,