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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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- Remember talking to people with civility about politics — even on contentious issues? Meet the CalMatters guy who has made that happen dozens of times. CalMatters’ director of partnerships, Dan Hu, has been traveling across […]
- Newsom boosted transitional kindergarten and put preschool out of reach for many California familiesTransitional kindergarten came with an unanticipated downside; it’s making childcare less affordable for many CA families. That can be fixed.
- California is considering handing oil refineries and other major polluters billions of dollars in free emission allowances just as the state says carbon reductions need to come faster than ever. In the last six months, […]
- Fast food workers, council members call on Newsom to appoint a chairperson so the council can meet again.
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