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What are shifts like for police officers in Merced County? We tagged along to find out
Merced FOCUS Public Safety reporter Elizabeth Wilson did ride-alongs with police at three agencies in Merced County.
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- The climate of STEM higher education programs can be unwelcoming for some minority populations. A state-funded program is trying to change that by providing mentors, relationship-building and financial assistance to California college students.
- In a legal win for California, a federal judge rejected President Trump’s efforts to funnel money away from permanent homeless housing.
- Scheduling note: WhatMatters is celebrating the Fourth of July and will return to your inboxes Monday. A year and a half after deadly wildfires ripped through Southern California, state lawmakers are asking what kind of […]
- After a year of limbo, some transgender troops who opted to leave the U.S. military voluntarily are finally being released. A new California bill would protect those forced out with a less than honorable discharge.
- A bill to shield Altadena from two density-boosting housing laws is meant to let the town rebuild on its own terms. Some worry it could keep many homeowners from rebuilding at all.
- As the safety calculus for fireworks changes across California, cities like fire-prone Napa have turned to drone lights to maintain the spectacle and tradition of the July Fourth holiday.
- California's labor unions want to loosen a pension reform from the recession era, but local governments fear the added costs and how it would widen unfunded liabilities.
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Tricia Stever Blattler led one of the country’s top ag producing counties through historic floods, wildfires and disease outbreaks – and her own personal tragedy.
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