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AI? New jobs? California’s local news deal with Google leaves lots of unanswered questions

A woman walks by the Above the Fold newsstand on Thursday in Los Angeles. “It was very hard to pass this legislation in Google’s backyard,” said Julie Makinen, chair of the California News Publishers Assn., the bill’s lead sponsor. California Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, said: “My goal was to get resources into the hands of publications as quickly as we could, …

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A snapshot of new state government efforts to tackle California’s housing crisis

A year after the creation of sweeping laws to increase the construction of duplexes and small apartment buildings, California lawmakers have turned their attention to money for affordable housing and easing the burdens of homeownership for first-time buyers. The bill, scheduled for a legislative hearing later this month, would exempt on-campus student and faculty housing projects from the state’s stringent …

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California may empower citizens to sue over illegal firearms

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Stung by a deadly mass shooting Sunday mere blocks from the state Capitol, California lawmakers on Tuesday advanced an innovative new approach to gun control that would empower private citizens to sue those who traffic in illegal weapons. “California leads the nation in enacting robust gun laws…and we’re still seeing this unprecedented level of gun violence,” Democratic …

Column: Texas abortion law gives gun-controlling California, gun lobby something to agree on

Latest California bail reform effort dies for this year

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A parolee’s arrest in a killing after he’d been released without bail helped torpedo the California Legislature’s latest attempt to reform the cash bail system for this year, the bill’s author said Thursday. El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson, the district attorneys association’s president, said lawmakers supporting changes to the bail system are “expressing sympathy toward …

California retains cash bail, rejects punishment rollbacks

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Fresh from months of protests over the police killings of people of color and national angst over racial inequities in the criminal justice system, California voters rejected an effort to roll back reforms targeting mass incarceration and reinstate tougher criminal penalties. 20 would tackle violent crime and retail theft.” Voters saw a distinction between the proposed criminal …

California oil production limits stall in Legislature, leaving the issue to Newsom