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• SacBee: Gavin Newsom's budget would make state government bigger. Can California sustain the spending?
• LAT $: Oakland bans criminal background checks on potential tenants
• SFC: Oakland becomes first in state to ban criminal background checks for rental housing
• CG: California Regulators May Declare a Common Headache and Sinus Drug a 'Carcinogen'
• AP: California considers declaring common pain killer carcinogen
• VCStar $: Lawmaker promises to refine AB 5 amid lawsuits, confusion
• CG: Uber Begins to Allow Drivers to Set Their Own Fares in Newest AB 5 Changes
• SFC: Fentanyl, heroin overdoses in San Francisco more than doubled in 2019
• LAT $: L.A. announced more 'sensitive' cleanups for homeless camps. Now it's taking a harder line
• LAT $: Use-of-force incidents against homeless people are up, LAPD reports
• SacBee: Homeless person cuts Roseville McDonald's employee with butter knife, police say
• CG: San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer Announces Plan for Ballot Measure to Combat Homelessness
• LADN: Volunteers swarm region as LA County counts homeless
• LAT $: Column: A county-owned homeless service center in the old St. Vincent hospital? It just might happen
• PE: Riverside to allow one or two homeless people to live in 64-square-foot shelters
• OCReg: Orange County GOP pulls back its endorsement of Assemblyman Tyler Diep
• VCStar $: Congressional candidate forum set for Simi Thursday
• 10th Congressional District candidates converge on Modesto for 'Debate at the State'
• VCStar $: Calif. voters can start casting ballots same day as Iowa caucus
• CapWkly: CA120: A crucial look at voters' second choices
• OCReg: Republican leaders call for Assemblyman Bill Brough to resign as investigations drag on
• CG: 2020 March Primary Preview: 35th State Assembly District
• AP: California man sentenced to death for killing family of 4
• VOSD: A Lawsuit Challenging Labor's Playbook Is Dead But the Tensions Aren't
• AP: University of California delays vote on raising tuition
• AP: California governor asked to pardon late gay rights leader
• NYT: A Late Push to Find Wildfire Victims Doubles PG&E Claims
• LAT $: California could become America's sports betting capital as rival groups eye November ballot
• CG: U-Haul Names Top Growth States of 2019 and Inadvertently Identifies States People are Fleeing
• SacBee: California is among the worst states for driving, report says. Here's how others rank
• LAT $: Women suing Riot Games may deserve $400 million, not $10 million, state regulator says
• AP: US agency examining Tesla unintended acceleration complaint
• AP: Why tech has been slow to fight wildfires, extreme weather
• Reason: A Year Ago, the Media Mangled the Covington Catholic Story. What Happened Next Was Even Worse.
• LAT $: Does Tom Steyer have real momentum or just a ton of money?
• OCReg: Understanding California's confusing March elections
• FH: No Political Cover for Anti-Farm Worker Votes
• OCReg: Hollywood tax credits should be blacklisted
• Reason: Trump's Impeachment Trial Will Only Make Us Hate Washington Even More
• CalM: State budget depends on the rich
• SDUT: Editorial: 3 questions that investigators need to answer ASAP in San Diego's empty building fiasco
• FH: Growing Cities Up - or Selling Them Out?
• NR: On the Dangers of Democracy
• SacBee: Is free Wi-Fi coming to your Sacramento park? Two more get service, with others on way
• SJMN: Vallejo releases video of off-duty Richmond cop fatally shooting man during argument over parking space
• SFC: Meet Mano Raju, the SF public defender who wants to pay you for jury duty
• SFC: Judge orders all Calif. sex assault suits vs. Lyft to be heard in SF
• Watch: Candidates forum 2020 - Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors, District 5
• FresBee: Two teenagers arrested on murder charges for Fresno's first homicide of 2020
• CalCoast: Beraud takes big campaign donations from controversial marijuana figures
• SFC: Announcement expected in disappearance of Kristin Smart
• VCStar $: Simi council rejects special elections motion
• AP: LA repeals requirements for contractors to reveal NRA ties
• LAT $: L.A. County supervisors approve subpoena authority in power struggle with sheriff
• LAT $: Editorial: Punishment is the only reason to send former L.A. sheriff Lee Baca to prison. That's reason enough
• OCReg: Letter demanding vote on Angel Stadium sale be reversed for more public discussion sent to Anaheim
• VOC: Lawsuit Likely Against Anaheim Over Secretive Stadium Negotiations
• OCReg: Prominent family offers to save historic building at entrance to Laguna
• PE: Guilty plea withdrawal documents in San Bernardino terrorist attack case filed by Marquez
• SBSun: San Bernardino to pay $630,000 to settle dispute with trash hauler Burrtec
• PE: Redlands Unified slapped with sex abuse lawsuit under new state law
• PE: Riverside councilwoman drops attempt to oust election foe from panel
• PE: Suspect in Temescal Valley deadly car-ramming crash faces spouse abuse, child injury charges
• SDUT: Lawyer challenges city on evidence in infractions cases, which have climbed sharply in recent years
• SDUT: SDSU tweaks Mission Valley campus plan
• SDUT: Editorial: San Diego State police botched student death probe
• SDUT: Coronado sued over intense storm's damage to house

Sincerely,