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• PE: There's no such thing as 'free money' - or meaningless deficits
• CG: CG Interview: California Rep. Tom McClintock Warns About One Party Seizing Control of Elections Process
• CG: The Opportunity Cost of Shutting Down Diablo Canyon
• SacBee: Sacramento could reach 104 degrees this weekend. Here's where you can go to escape the heat
• CG: Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part IV
• LAT $: Court ruling theoretically invalidates thousands of illegal-entry convictions against migrants
• SacBee: Billions in California real estate at serious risk from wildfire. New study maps it out
• How California keeps blocking Trump's environmental rollbacks
• SacBee: These California DMV employees took bribes for licenses. Now they're going to prison.
• LAT $: Supreme Court rules for Trump in border wall funding dispute
• VCStar $: California bill seeks to boot Trump from primary ballot
• AmerSpec: Once Again, Uncle Sam Shirks Fiscal Responsibility in Budget Deal
• PE: A Sacramento shell-game comes to an end
• NR: The Contradiction at the Heart of Permissive Immigration Rhetoric
• SacBee: Three-year I-5 reconstruction project begins in Sacramento. Expect closures, commute delays
• SJMN: Bay Area home sales, prices continue to tumble
• SJMN: After restricting second-story granny units, Redwood City to limit home sizes
• SFC: Mayors in Alameda County want shuttered jail converted into...
• Judge to decide who should prosecute harassment case against Contra Costa assessor
• Livermore council approves downtown plans as tempers flare
• SJMN: Bodybuilding Santa Clara County Sheriff's lieutenant pleads no contest to workers comp fraud
• Outgoing Stanislaus County supervisor leaving California for a nearby tax-free state
• BakCal: Project manager on Isabella Dam provides update on progress
• FresBee: A Fresno employee gave 2-week notice, then got a raise. Now the rules will change
• BakCal: Kern County Department of Human Services battles bedbugs at call center
• LAT $: 3.8 earthquake registered near Hollister, Calif.
• LADN: San Fernando Valley's City Council District 12 candidates, vying for key office amid a wave of change, could not be more different
• LADN: 16 cases of measles confirmed in LA County, and here's where you might have been exposed
• LAT $: MS-13 gang created a beachhead at Valley high school, but authorities insisted on secrecy
• PE: 12 miles of eastbound 60 Freeway closed in Inland Empire for '60 Swarm' project
• SDUT: Councilwoman Barbara Bry calls for moratorium on dockless electric scooters
• SDUT: San Diego firefighter overtime exceeds $46 million

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