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How liberal is California, really?
California and the House fight. How liberal are CA Democrats? The impact of a law giving prosecutors less power. Behind the UC strike. A cholera monument.
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The big idea saving CA a half-billion dollars a year
California's savings on smoking bans, Gavin Newsom's audacious goals, a new PPIC poll, Wicks vs. Beckles in the East Bay, how gerrymandering could return.
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Lotteries, blackjack and other CA games of chance
No Californian wins the lottery jackpot. For-profit colleges play the odds. Agriculture comes for a lawmaker who voted with farm workers. NorCal vs. SoCal.
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Gas tax: Labor’s test for CA Democrats
Proposition 13 turns 40, labor shuns a Democrat over the gas tax, mental illness and ER visits, a lieutenant governor face-off and children's hospitals.
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Boos, catcalls and hard choices on homelessness
Where to shelter California's homeless, Trump's rotting trees, 2018 fire statistics, syphilis, Tuck and Thurmond, the Benicia-Martinez Bridge and a quiz.
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Follow the money, large and small-dollar donor edition
Campaign donations are going more to Democrats than Republicans in California's hot congressional races; Feinstein and de León debate; and Gavin Newsom gives because that's how far ahead of John Cox he is.
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Senate goes digital, GOP for Poizner, high-speed rail
The Senate goes digital, Steve Poizner's GOP donors, high speed rail in Fresno, recycled carpet, congenital syphilis in California, taxes and auto rules.
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Those DMV snafus, lead paint decision and cancer rates
Those DMV voter registration snafus, a Supreme Court win for California cities, lung cancer rates plummet, how Cox and Newsom would differ from Jerry Brown, UC outsourcing, PG&E and the CALmatters voter guide.
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Campaign money, McCarthy’s ‘Cherokee’ in-law, CA history
Campaign money, 2018 election ad buys, Kevin McCarthy's 'Cherokee' in-law, Kamala Harris, smoking deaths, bad jobs, carpet recycling and California history.