Milo Yiannopoulos appears briefly in front of a crowd in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)

In summary

A wet winter turns to spring, two die in e-scooter wrecks, California comes for paper receipts, a pesticide verdict, mountain lions, falcon eggs, tweets.

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Dan Morain joined CalMatters in March 2018. He is the former editorial page editor of The Sacramento Bee. Morain also spent 27 years at The Los Angeles Times, and has covered the Capitol since 1992.