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• NYT: After Racist Comments, Los Angeles City Council President Faces Calls to Resign
• CG: Leaked Audio: Latino LA City Council Members Martinez, Cedilla, de León Make Racist Remarks, Mock Council Colleagues
• LAT $: Audio: City Council leader makes racist comments about colleague’s young son
• LAT $: Three L.A. council members call for President Nury Martinez to step down
• Protesters besiege LA City Council President Nury Martinez's home demanding her resignation
• Bonin calls on LA City Council to remove Martinez as president over racist comments on his son
• LA City Council President Criticized Over Alleged Racial Remarks
• Calls for City Council President Nury Martinez to resign after racist comments surface
• SDUT: Fueled by gun violence, homicides in San Diego increased slightly in 2021, but not as much as in other cities
• SFC: Petaluma police make arrests in organized retail theft operation
• SFC: Shots fired as Oakland police break up sideshow
• Woman ran man over with his own car in Griffith Park; faces murder charge
• OCReg: Susan Shelley’s guide to state ballot measures
• Saturday Headlines
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• SJMN: Election 2022: Campaign ads in August? Ill-timed ‘October surprises’? Is there such a thing as voting too early?
• SFC: Wealthy Bay Area residents fuel effort to defeat ballot measure on electric cars
• SJMN: Bay Area cities running out of time to convince the state they can build 441,000 new homes
• NR: The Entirely Predictable Failure of California High-Speed Rail
• FresBee: Heads up, Fresno drivers! High-speed rail construction could slow your commute to work
• Train from LA to Palm Springs area – at a $1 billion cost – planned
• AP: California tribes will manage, protect state coastal areas
• SDUT: Column: Climate change forces California to make long-term adjustments, immediate water cuts
• OCReg: Floating wind turbines off California coast soon could boost power grid
• OCReg: In pricy Southern California, some seniors can’t be retiring types
• SDUT: San Diego State criticized for giving conflicting accounts of how it handled gang rape allegation
• OCReg: 18-year-old Marine recruit collapses during training, dies at Camp Pendleton hospital
• BreitbartCA: BLM Cofounder Patrisse Cullors Renovates Backyard of Her $1.4M L.A. Mansion
• NR: Florida Surgeon General: ‘Florida Will Not Be Silent on the Truth’
• OCReg: Support for Proposition 30 is fading, and for good reason
• CalM: New laws trade one gerrymander for another
• How Turbo-Wokism Broke America
• NR: Kamala Harris Finds Her Level of Incompetence
• Why Have a Constitution If You Just Ignore It?
• SacBee: Sacramento will elect 3 new City Council members next month. Here’s what you need to know
• SacBee: In Gavin Newsom’s Fair Oaks backyard, proud Democrats are few and far between
• SFC: Here’s what mayoral hopefuls would do about Oakland’s homelessness crisis
• SFC: Home buyers backing out of deals in droves in parts of U.S. Here's where Bay Area stands
• SFC: Lawsuit over 33 Tehama flooding alleges mismanagement and deception at S.F. building
• San José Fire Department investigating video of bikini-clad woman exiting fire truck outside strip club
• SJMN: Second week of sheriff corruption trial dives into alleged gun-permit favoritism
• CalCoast: Paso Robles officers follow trail of blood, find stabbing victim
• VCStar $: School board dissidents find home at Newbury Park church
• SBSun: Third-alarm fire at San Bernardino commercial building stopped, no injuries reported
• SDUT: A guide to the San Diego Unified School Board races
• SDUT: Will new housing rules stop San Diego from building in high-fire areas?
• SDUT: Nov. 2022 Election: Meet the candidates for San Diego Unified School District Board, Sub-District B
• SDUT: Three transportation projects, including a trolley extension into Tijuana, pitched to public Sunday

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