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Cash-strapped Dos Palos misspent $2.2 million in transportation tax money. How will the city repay it?
The money the city misspent was from Measure V, a 30-year, half-cent sales tax, estimated to generate over $450 million in funding for countywide transportation maintenance and improvements.
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- Data centers are expanding into water-stressed California communities, but lax disclosure rules keep the public in the dark about actual usage
- From a public wildfire authority to a state backstop, California insurance regulator candidates propose greater state involvement.
- Turning Point chapters continue to grow on California campuses months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Campuses are seeing tensions rise as conservative students become more vocal both in and out of the classroom.
- A law advancing in the California Assembly makes it illegal to set prices with algorithms. Three other states have passed such bans in the last month.
- The Trump administration immigration crackdown swelled the population inside California's immigrant detention centers. State investigators in a report described strained medical resources inside the sites.
- Democratic frontrunner Xavier Becerra took fire from all sides at the last debate among governor hopefuls before the June primary. He was an easy target considering that his former political consultant was in court earlier […]
- Gov. Gavin Newsom, widely expected to run for president, proposed a state budget with enough trims to eliminate deficits this year and next.
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