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A cocktail sign above a bar in Sacramento. Photo by Shawn Hubler for CALmatters
Aerial view of Shasta County's Keswick Dam area after the Carr Fire, Aug. 21, 2018. Kathleen Galligan, USA TODAY network. Used by permission.
A homeless man on the street in San Francisco. Conservatorship law complicates treatment for mentally ill homeless Californians.

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