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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, October 29, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Dolores Huerta is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106928/california-leaders-mourn-celebrate-dolores-huerta-and-her-legacy\">being remembered across the country\u003c/a> as an iconic leader of the United Farm Workers and a pioneering feminist and civil rights advocate. But she was rooted right here in California. And when she died Wednesday at the age of 96, she was at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The CEO of California’s High Speed Rail Authority \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-ceo-resigns/\">has abruptly resigned\u003c/a> from the job. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106928/california-leaders-mourn-celebrate-dolores-huerta-and-her-legacy\">California leaders mourn, celebrate Dolores Huerta and her legacy\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California leaders mourned Dolores Huerta, the indefatigable civil rights champion and farmworker advocate, praising her as a hero, giant and legend after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106881/dolores-huerta-influential-labor-leader-feminist-and-civil-rights-icon-dies-at-96\">her death on Wednesday\u003c/a> at age 96. Her family said in a statement that she died from cancer at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who co-founded one of the world’s most renowned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/120851/dolores-huerta-the-civil-rights-icon-who-showed-farmworkers-si-se-puede\">agricultural worker labor movements\u003c/a>, spent most of her life pushing for economic justice and a voice for the dispossessed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even at her advanced age, she continued to participate in marches and protests, and encouraged Latino citizens to vote, including just days ago, said Angelica Salas, who directs the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, and called Huerta “a mentor to thousands.” “She felt in her core that injustice had to be fought 24/7,” said Salas, adding that Huerta was a friend who supported her personally and professionally for decades. “The United States of America has lost a hero today.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fierce labor negotiator in a field dominated by men, Huerta helped lead large strikes and boycotts in the 1960s and 1970s with the union that became the United Farm Workers. Her labor organizing changed state laws and produced some of the nation’s first contracts to secure drinking water, sanitary toilets and other basic rights for thousands of farmworkers. Huerta lobbied for California to become the first state to give agricultural workers the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/forms-publications/faqs-and-guidance/fact-sheet-english/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal right to organize\u003c/a> and join unions in 1975, decades after the passage of a federal law that protected collective bargaining for other private-sector employees.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who had more than a dozen children, coined the social-justice rallying cry “\u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/research/history/history-si-se-puede/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sí se puede\u003c/a>,” translated as “Yes we can.” Former President Barack Obama, who coalesced millions of voters under the phrase during a historic 2008 presidential campaign, awarded Huerta the \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/29/remarks-president-presidential-medal-freedom-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012\u003c/a>, praising her determination and courage. Julián Castro, who leads the San Francisco-based Latino Community Foundation, said Huerta was an American icon who changed the course of history for good through her contributions to the labor movement, inspiring young women and men to work for social change. “Dolores, for me and I know for a lot of people, has been a role model of how you can dedicate your life to serving others, to making other people’s lives better,” Castro, a former U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor who ran for president in 2020, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta spoke out against the rampant sexual abuse of farmworker women in the fields in a 2013 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/rape-in-the-fields/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film and radio series\u003c/a> that KQED collaborated on with Frontline, CIR, IRP and Univision. “I believe that the employers are in total denial, and they will often take the word of the foreman or the manager against the woman if she does come forward,” Huerta said in the documentary. “And women know this. They know that they’re not going to be heard. They know that nobody’s going to be there to support them or protect them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She stunned many by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">revealing\u003c/a> at age 95 that she herself was manipulated into sex and raped in the 1960s by the late union leader Cesar Chávez. Huerta came forward in a \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> investigation that uncovered disturbing accusations that Chávez sexually abused young girls and women for years. Huerta told the newspaper that she chose not to report the abuse partly because she feared that no one within the union would believe her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-ceo-resigns/\">Head of California high-speed rail agency resigns amid travel expenses scandal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CEO of California’s high-speed rail authority resigned late Wednesday, saying he needs to focus on “important personal and family priorities,” according to a copy of the emailed resignation obtained by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This has not been an easy decision, as leading the Authority has been one of the most meaningful and rewarding chapters of my professional life,” wrote Chief Executive Ian Choudri.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will be replaced by \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/about-us/executive-staff/joe-stephenshaw/\">Joe Stephenshaw\u003c/a>, who has led the state Department of Finance since July 2022 after working as a policy analyst in the state Legislature for more than a decade, the board announced Thursday morning following a closed session.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The abrupt announcement comes in the midst of a two-day meeting of the board that oversees the project, which continues Thursday. It follows Choudri’s tumultuous two-year tenure, which has been troubled by budget woes, project delays, transparency concerns and various scandals including the misuse of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/california-high-speed-rail-travel-expenses/\">nearly $600,000 in taxpayer money\u003c/a> for questionable trips by rail authority consultants.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under Choudri, the authority also lost $4 billion in federal funding under President Donald Trump’s administration, after the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-train-procurement-newsom/\">repeatedly missed deadlines\u003c/a> required by the funding agreement to buy trains. The state initially sued Trump for the funding but abruptly dropped the lawsuit in December 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/about/transparency-accountability/funding/federal-grants/\">blaming Trump as “not a reliable partner”\u003c/a> and turning to private investors instead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Investigative-Report-2026-Allegations-of-Wasteful-and-Unallowable-Travel-Expenses-for-Contracted-Consultants-A11Y.pdf\">State investigators\u003c/a> last month found the rail agency’s consultants flew first class, hailed premium rides and traveled to a nightclub, cigar lounge and restaurants on taxpayers’ dime, sometimes at Choudri’s request. Many of the trips involved traveling to Folsom, the Sacramento suburb where Choudri has a home, sometimes after hours. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The board voted earlier this month to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-board-contracts/\">limit Choudri’s contracting authority\u003c/a> following the probe, requiring the in-house legal counsel to sign off first on contracts under $25 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California voters in 2008 approved a $10 billion bond to build a bullet train connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020, with a projected cost of $45 billion. But progress stalled amid rising costs, legal fights and funding uncertainties. The authority’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-Final-Business-Plan-060126-A11Y.pdf\">latest business plan\u003c/a> said the project could now cost between $126 billion and $231 billion, with the current 171-mile leg between Merced and Bakersfield under construction, and a full buildout expected by 2040.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, October 29, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Dolores Huerta is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106928/california-leaders-mourn-celebrate-dolores-huerta-and-her-legacy\">being remembered across the country\u003c/a> as an iconic leader of the United Farm Workers and a pioneering feminist and civil rights advocate. But she was rooted right here in California. And when she died Wednesday at the age of 96, she was at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The CEO of California’s High Speed Rail Authority \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-ceo-resigns/\">has abruptly resigned\u003c/a> from the job. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106928/california-leaders-mourn-celebrate-dolores-huerta-and-her-legacy\">California leaders mourn, celebrate Dolores Huerta and her legacy\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California leaders mourned Dolores Huerta, the indefatigable civil rights champion and farmworker advocate, praising her as a hero, giant and legend after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106881/dolores-huerta-influential-labor-leader-feminist-and-civil-rights-icon-dies-at-96\">her death on Wednesday\u003c/a> at age 96. Her family said in a statement that she died from cancer at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who co-founded one of the world’s most renowned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/120851/dolores-huerta-the-civil-rights-icon-who-showed-farmworkers-si-se-puede\">agricultural worker labor movements\u003c/a>, spent most of her life pushing for economic justice and a voice for the dispossessed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even at her advanced age, she continued to participate in marches and protests, and encouraged Latino citizens to vote, including just days ago, said Angelica Salas, who directs the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, and called Huerta “a mentor to thousands.” “She felt in her core that injustice had to be fought 24/7,” said Salas, adding that Huerta was a friend who supported her personally and professionally for decades. “The United States of America has lost a hero today.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fierce labor negotiator in a field dominated by men, Huerta helped lead large strikes and boycotts in the 1960s and 1970s with the union that became the United Farm Workers. Her labor organizing changed state laws and produced some of the nation’s first contracts to secure drinking water, sanitary toilets and other basic rights for thousands of farmworkers. Huerta lobbied for California to become the first state to give agricultural workers the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/forms-publications/faqs-and-guidance/fact-sheet-english/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal right to organize\u003c/a> and join unions in 1975, decades after the passage of a federal law that protected collective bargaining for other private-sector employees.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who had more than a dozen children, coined the social-justice rallying cry “\u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/research/history/history-si-se-puede/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sí se puede\u003c/a>,” translated as “Yes we can.” Former President Barack Obama, who coalesced millions of voters under the phrase during a historic 2008 presidential campaign, awarded Huerta the \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/29/remarks-president-presidential-medal-freedom-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012\u003c/a>, praising her determination and courage. Julián Castro, who leads the San Francisco-based Latino Community Foundation, said Huerta was an American icon who changed the course of history for good through her contributions to the labor movement, inspiring young women and men to work for social change. “Dolores, for me and I know for a lot of people, has been a role model of how you can dedicate your life to serving others, to making other people’s lives better,” Castro, a former U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor who ran for president in 2020, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta spoke out against the rampant sexual abuse of farmworker women in the fields in a 2013 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/rape-in-the-fields/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film and radio series\u003c/a> that KQED collaborated on with Frontline, CIR, IRP and Univision. “I believe that the employers are in total denial, and they will often take the word of the foreman or the manager against the woman if she does come forward,” Huerta said in the documentary. “And women know this. They know that they’re not going to be heard. They know that nobody’s going to be there to support them or protect them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She stunned many by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">revealing\u003c/a> at age 95 that she herself was manipulated into sex and raped in the 1960s by the late union leader Cesar Chávez. Huerta came forward in a \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> investigation that uncovered disturbing accusations that Chávez sexually abused young girls and women for years. Huerta told the newspaper that she chose not to report the abuse partly because she feared that no one within the union would believe her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-ceo-resigns/\">Head of California high-speed rail agency resigns amid travel expenses scandal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CEO of California’s high-speed rail authority resigned late Wednesday, saying he needs to focus on “important personal and family priorities,” according to a copy of the emailed resignation obtained by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This has not been an easy decision, as leading the Authority has been one of the most meaningful and rewarding chapters of my professional life,” wrote Chief Executive Ian Choudri.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will be replaced by \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/about-us/executive-staff/joe-stephenshaw/\">Joe Stephenshaw\u003c/a>, who has led the state Department of Finance since July 2022 after working as a policy analyst in the state Legislature for more than a decade, the board announced Thursday morning following a closed session.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The abrupt announcement comes in the midst of a two-day meeting of the board that oversees the project, which continues Thursday. It follows Choudri’s tumultuous two-year tenure, which has been troubled by budget woes, project delays, transparency concerns and various scandals including the misuse of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/california-high-speed-rail-travel-expenses/\">nearly $600,000 in taxpayer money\u003c/a> for questionable trips by rail authority consultants.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under Choudri, the authority also lost $4 billion in federal funding under President Donald Trump’s administration, after the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-train-procurement-newsom/\">repeatedly missed deadlines\u003c/a> required by the funding agreement to buy trains. The state initially sued Trump for the funding but abruptly dropped the lawsuit in December 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/about/transparency-accountability/funding/federal-grants/\">blaming Trump as “not a reliable partner”\u003c/a> and turning to private investors instead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Investigative-Report-2026-Allegations-of-Wasteful-and-Unallowable-Travel-Expenses-for-Contracted-Consultants-A11Y.pdf\">State investigators\u003c/a> last month found the rail agency’s consultants flew first class, hailed premium rides and traveled to a nightclub, cigar lounge and restaurants on taxpayers’ dime, sometimes at Choudri’s request. Many of the trips involved traveling to Folsom, the Sacramento suburb where Choudri has a home, sometimes after hours. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The board voted earlier this month to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-board-contracts/\">limit Choudri’s contracting authority\u003c/a> following the probe, requiring the in-house legal counsel to sign off first on contracts under $25 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California voters in 2008 approved a $10 billion bond to build a bullet train connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020, with a projected cost of $45 billion. But progress stalled amid rising costs, legal fights and funding uncertainties. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, October 28, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Farmers and ranchers have long been a reliable Republican voting bloc, but that may shift this midterm election as federal policies drive discontent among these communities. How is this playing out in the heart of California’s agricultural production? \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106700/california-to-pay-10-million-to-settle-class-action-over-women-gassed-at-chowchilla-prison\">has tentatively agreed to pay $10 million\u003c/a> to settle a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of incarcerated women at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A federal judge in Los Angeles is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-noncitizen-voting-court/\">expected to rule today\u003c/a> in a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration, over ballots in next week’s midterm election here in California. Federal officials have been seeking to prevent the state from processing the ballots of voters who they believe are not citizens.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Are Trump policies enough to swing key ag vote in District 22 race?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farmers and ranchers have long been a reliable Republican voting bloc. But that may shift this midterm election as federal policies drive discontent among these communities. How is this playing out in the heart of California’s agricultural production?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As he walks through a barn where Jersey cows are feeding, Landon Fernandes lists the many challenges facing his family-owned business right now. “When you have feed cost increase, labor increase, fuel, other supplies and inputs, and then at the same time you have milk prices come down. That’s when you have the perfect storm, right?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fernandes is a third generation dairy farmer in Tulare and president of the Tulare County Farm Bureau. His family’s ranch spans over 1,000 acres and 6,000 dairy cows. The milk they produce here is processed into cheese, butter and whole milk powder. This year – in part due to tariffs and the Iran War, Fernandes said his margins are thinner. “We’ve had to go into cash reserves. We have an operating line of credit with our local lender,” Fernandes said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quarter of farmers rank the Trump administration as the single biggest cause of ag-related problems, according to a national Farm Journal survey in April. The same poll found that 4 in 10 farmers are “persuadable” this year, which could spell trouble for Republicans, who typically count on this electorate.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Valley’s 22nd Congressional District is considered the only toss-up race in the state. It pits incumbent Republican Congressman David Valadao, who faces a challenge from progressive Democrat Randy Villegas. Both are courting the farm vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationally, Republicans are struggling to separate themselves from President Trump. But Republican strategist Liz Mair said Valadao has successfully carved out an independent image, breaking with his party on immigration and even voting to impeach Trump after the January 6th attack on the Capitol. “He’s a very peculiar sort of political animal in the current climate,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That may explain his staying power. Valadao has won six of the last seven elections despite Democrats’ registration edge here. His only loss came in the 2018 blue wave. Another thing may play in Valadao’s favor. Mair said Central Valley farmers don’t fit the same mold as farmers elsewhere in the country. “I think when you’re looking at California Central Valley farmers, they do tend to be a more conservative lot. But they’re not conservative in the way that MAGA is. There’s like a libertarian versus big government conservative axis,” Mair said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106700/california-to-pay-10-million-to-settle-class-action-over-women-gassed-at-chowchilla-prison\">California agrees to pay $10 million in class action over women gassed at Chowchilla Prison\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California has reached a tentative $10 million agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of incarcerated women at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/central-california-womens-facility\">Central California Women’s Facility\u003c/a> who were held in a crowded dining hall and sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There’s no amount of money that can fix what we went through that day,” said Angelina Hernandez, who is no longer in prison. “I have really bad PTSD. It really messed me up in a lot of different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the morning of Aug. 2, 2024, correctional officers at the Chowchilla facility moved more than 150 women to the dining hall to conduct a massive search of their unit, according to the suit, and seize any personal belongings that did not fit in a 6-cubic-foot box. After hours of being confined to the cafeteria without food, water or access to medication, tensions became heightened. Women shouted at the officers and banged on the tables, according to internal documents obtained by KQED. Officers deployed chemical grenades and pepper spray on the women — first inside the chow hall, and then again after the women were zip-tied and seated in the yard outside. At least one woman named Christina Wind was also beaten by officers with batons. Women suffered injuries ranging from seizures, stroke and loss of eyesight. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mass use-of-force event led to the largest corrective action related to a single incident in state history, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Three correctional officers were fired and 31 more received discipline, ranging from reprimands to pay cuts. Several officers are still appealing those actions. Under the agreement, $7.45 million would be split among the class members, while $2.5 million would go to their attorneys. 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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>As he walks through a barn where Jersey cows are feeding, Landon Fernandes lists the many challenges facing his family-owned business right now. “When you have feed cost increase, labor increase, fuel, other supplies and inputs, and then at the same time you have milk prices come down. That’s when you have the perfect storm, right?” he said.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, October 28, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Farmers and ranchers have long been a reliable Republican voting bloc, but that may shift this midterm election as federal policies drive discontent among these communities. How is this playing out in the heart of California’s agricultural production? \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106700/california-to-pay-10-million-to-settle-class-action-over-women-gassed-at-chowchilla-prison\">has tentatively agreed to pay $10 million\u003c/a> to settle a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of incarcerated women at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A federal judge in Los Angeles is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-noncitizen-voting-court/\">expected to rule today\u003c/a> in a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration, over ballots in next week’s midterm election here in California. Federal officials have been seeking to prevent the state from processing the ballots of voters who they believe are not citizens.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Are Trump policies enough to swing key ag vote in District 22 race?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farmers and ranchers have long been a reliable Republican voting bloc. But that may shift this midterm election as federal policies drive discontent among these communities. How is this playing out in the heart of California’s agricultural production?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As he walks through a barn where Jersey cows are feeding, Landon Fernandes lists the many challenges facing his family-owned business right now. “When you have feed cost increase, labor increase, fuel, other supplies and inputs, and then at the same time you have milk prices come down. That’s when you have the perfect storm, right?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fernandes is a third generation dairy farmer in Tulare and president of the Tulare County Farm Bureau. His family’s ranch spans over 1,000 acres and 6,000 dairy cows. The milk they produce here is processed into cheese, butter and whole milk powder. This year – in part due to tariffs and the Iran War, Fernandes said his margins are thinner. “We’ve had to go into cash reserves. We have an operating line of credit with our local lender,” Fernandes said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quarter of farmers rank the Trump administration as the single biggest cause of ag-related problems, according to a national Farm Journal survey in April. The same poll found that 4 in 10 farmers are “persuadable” this year, which could spell trouble for Republicans, who typically count on this electorate.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Valley’s 22nd Congressional District is considered the only toss-up race in the state. It pits incumbent Republican Congressman David Valadao, who faces a challenge from progressive Democrat Randy Villegas. Both are courting the farm vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationally, Republicans are struggling to separate themselves from President Trump. But Republican strategist Liz Mair said Valadao has successfully carved out an independent image, breaking with his party on immigration and even voting to impeach Trump after the January 6th attack on the Capitol. “He’s a very peculiar sort of political animal in the current climate,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That may explain his staying power. Valadao has won six of the last seven elections despite Democrats’ registration edge here. His only loss came in the 2018 blue wave. Another thing may play in Valadao’s favor. Mair said Central Valley farmers don’t fit the same mold as farmers elsewhere in the country. “I think when you’re looking at California Central Valley farmers, they do tend to be a more conservative lot. But they’re not conservative in the way that MAGA is. There’s like a libertarian versus big government conservative axis,” Mair said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106700/california-to-pay-10-million-to-settle-class-action-over-women-gassed-at-chowchilla-prison\">California agrees to pay $10 million in class action over women gassed at Chowchilla Prison\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California has reached a tentative $10 million agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of incarcerated women at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/central-california-womens-facility\">Central California Women’s Facility\u003c/a> who were held in a crowded dining hall and sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There’s no amount of money that can fix what we went through that day,” said Angelina Hernandez, who is no longer in prison. “I have really bad PTSD. It really messed me up in a lot of different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the morning of Aug. 2, 2024, correctional officers at the Chowchilla facility moved more than 150 women to the dining hall to conduct a massive search of their unit, according to the suit, and seize any personal belongings that did not fit in a 6-cubic-foot box. After hours of being confined to the cafeteria without food, water or access to medication, tensions became heightened. Women shouted at the officers and banged on the tables, according to internal documents obtained by KQED. Officers deployed chemical grenades and pepper spray on the women — first inside the chow hall, and then again after the women were zip-tied and seated in the yard outside. At least one woman named Christina Wind was also beaten by officers with batons. Women suffered injuries ranging from seizures, stroke and loss of eyesight. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mass use-of-force event led to the largest corrective action related to a single incident in state history, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Three correctional officers were fired and 31 more received discipline, ranging from reprimands to pay cuts. Several officers are still appealing those actions. Under the agreement, $7.45 million would be split among the class members, while $2.5 million would go to their attorneys. Another lawsuit filed on behalf of 13 women who were injured during the incident was settled for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077737/california-agrees-to-1-9m-settlement-in-prison-use-of-force-case\">$1.9 million in March\u003c/a>, bringing the combined value of the settlements to nearly $12 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-noncitizen-voting-court/\">Judge says Trump could disenfranchise voters in purge of noncitizens from election rolls\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saying he had concerns it could disenfranchise voters during the midterm election, a federal judge on Tuesday seemed skeptical of the Trump administration’s demands that California election officials set aside 20,000 ballots that it claimed could have been mailed to noncitizens. “Some of these may be very valid voters, and that’s my concern about disenfranchisement,” said U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, an appointee of President Bill Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carter said he would issue a formal ruling by Wednesday, but he told the courtroom he was likely going to appoint a special master to weigh the evidence both sides present at a hearing in two weeks. That means his final ruling might not come until after the election. He said he didn’t want to “just wing it with a ruling” based on last-minute evidence the federal government submitted to the court the night before Tuesday’s hearing.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Carter also suggested that his ruling would order federal authorities to stop telling election officials that they could face criminal charges if they didn’t comply with the Trump administration’s demands. The Trump administration on Friday sent letters to California election officials telling them to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-voting-claims-counties/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set aside ballots from suspected noncitizens\u003c/a>, and threatened them with criminal charges if they allowed those people to vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carter’s remarks point to yet another likely legal blow to the Trump administration as it seeks to validate President Donald Trump’s longstanding claims of widespread election fraud favoring Democrats. Experts and election officials say those claims are meritless. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, acknowledged that the government’s list of 20,000 people may contain citizens, but he said the possibility that noncitizens were voting illegally was too great a threat. “I would ask the state how many illegal votes is OK for them?” Essayli said. “It cannot be that the state has a right to facilitate the counting and tabulation of noncitizen votes. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, October 27, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Proposition 40 proponents say the tax would help backfill federal Medical cuts. But as Governor Newsom weighs a presidential run, is he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106033/the-political-calculus-behind-newsoms-opposition-to-californias-billionaire-tax\">looking ahead to how it might play to donors and voters?\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A federal court has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-noncitizen-voting-justice-department-lawsuit-ed14390afb8af8fde1c2d0f6a90a0761\">rejected a Trump administration demand\u003c/a> that it force California officials to set aside the ballots of 20,000 registered voters, who the Department of Justice alleges are not citizens. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Proposition 38 would allocate more than $8 billion for health research grants. That’s something supporters say is critical, at a time when the Trump administration has tried to claw back funding. But \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/10/prop-38-california/\">CalMatters has been digging into concerns\u003c/a> about how that money would be distributed, with roughly $4 billion going to a single institution.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106033/the-political-calculus-behind-newsoms-opposition-to-californias-billionaire-tax\">How Prop 40 could impact the future political aspirations of Gavin Newsom \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To hear \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> talk about billionaires and inequality, you’d think he would be squarely behind a proposal on California’s November ballot that would levy a wealth tax on the richest Californians to help pay for healthcare. In a \u003ca href=\"https://gavinnewsom.substack.com/p/its-time-for-a-national-billionaires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video\u003c/a> posted to his Substack and YouTube channel in June, Newsom argued that the country’s tax system is “fundamentally broken.” “Think about this: Just 10% of the people, 10% of the people in the country, own two-thirds of the wealth. A 30-year-old, for the first time in American history, is not doing better than his or her parents. That’s a five-alarm fire,” he said. “It’s time for an economic reset, a true minimum tax. A true minimum tax on billionaires that ensures the people at the very top pay at least the tax rate their own workers pay.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But like many high-profile Democrats and some of their strongest allies in this deep blue state, the governor is opposed to Proposition 40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ballot measure, proposed by a healthcare union, would impose a one-time, 5% tax on the overall wealth of the state’s approximately 200 billionaires. The money would be used to backfill deep federal budget cuts to Medicaid, which provides health insurance to low-income Americans — including nearly 15 million Californians. Newsom has argued Proposition 40 is bad for California. He said this kind of tax should be imposed on the national level, so billionaires won’t just pack up and leave the state. And he insisted that the tax will ultimately hurt the state’s budget more than it will help, by chasing wealthy entrepreneurs and their businesses to other states with lower tax burdens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some progressives think the governor — who is eyeing a possible 2028 presidential run — is just wary of angering a donor class with deep pockets. Tech industry billionaires like Chris Larsen, Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen have become increasingly involved in funding campaigns in recent years. “There are a lot of elected officials who are so afraid of this billionaire class,” said California Federation of Labor Unions President Lorena Gonzalez, who supports Proposition 40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saikat Chakrabarti, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in San Francisco this year, went farther. Chakrabarti is co-founder and president of the progressive think tank New Consensus. “He’s made no secret of it — he’s going to run for president. And that’s why he’s not just opposed to Prop. 40. He’s vehemently campaigning against it because he needs those billionaires on his side,” Chakrabarti said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the billionaires may not be Newsom’s only audience. Fernando Guerra, a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University, said he thinks Newsom’s opposition to the billionaire tax will help him with centrist Democrats he would need to capture the Democratic nomination in 2028. “It defuses him being the total lefty from California,” said Guerra, who predicted that the tax will get defeated. If it loses, Guerra said, that only gives Newsom more fuel — especially because the coalition opposing the tax includes the California Teachers Association and some other big unions with political muscle. Guerra said that coalition allows Newsom to make a credibility argument and not just with moderate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim Kessler at the center-left think tank Third Way said that while more left-leaning candidates could attack Newsom in a presidential primary for opposing Proposition 40, those critiques could backfire. “That might help him, even in a Democratic primary, because the top issue for Democratic primary voters in presidential elections is, is this person electable? And they don’t think someone overly progressive is electable,” Kessler said. “No one believes that California is an under-taxed state. So there isn’t a belief out there that, oh, there’s all sorts of tax breaks for people and wealthy people in California.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-noncitizen-voting-justice-department-lawsuit-ed14390afb8af8fde1c2d0f6a90a0761\">Appeals court declines to block California from counting 20,000 disputed ballots\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An appeals court on Monday declined to rule on whether California elections officials can count roughly 20,000 ballots that the Justice Department alleges likely belong to noncitizen voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2-1 decision sets the Trump administration and state officials up for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">another legal showdown\u003c/a> on the matter on Tuesday in front of a federal district judge, giving the federal government a very short window to compel California to sequester votes before the Nov. 3 elections. The decision marks the latest in a string of legal setbacks for President Donald Trump’s administration as it seeks to assert greater federal control over state-run elections. Noncitizen voting has been a central focus of Trump’s political messaging for years, although available data indicates it is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noncitizens-voting-republicans-election-2024-immigration-09b86e6768f755fd875f3c51b0e8ea70\">exceedingly rare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the panel primarily ruled it was premature for an appeals court to get involved, two of the three judges also wrote separate concurrences making it clear they wouldn’t support setting aside ballots at this late date. They questioned the accuracy of the federal government’s list of alleged noncitizen voters and argued that to set aside votes risks disenfranchising citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-voting-noncitizens-lawsuit-12c62cf12a7db6480c60975b6dea49b8\">sued election officials\u003c/a> in the heavily Democratic state in mid-October, accusing them of failing to meet a 48-hour deadline to review a list of 20,000 people it alleged were likely noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls. The administration asked the judge to stop the state from counting those ballots until immigration status checks could be completed. The Justice Department made similar \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/washington-noncitizen-voting-63c17a3eadc9ed232fbd897afbd29b9d\">demands Monday in Washington\u003c/a>, another state with races that will help determine control of the U.S. Senate and House. Both state and federal law prohibit noncitizens from voting. But California officials say it’s not even clear the administration’s purported 20,000 noncitizen voters are actually not U.S. citizens. In court papers, Los Angeles election officials said the majority of a random sample of voters that the Department of Justice identified as immigrants seemed to have been born in the United States. The Justice Department, for its part, has said there is as much to lose from keeping the potentially illegal ballots in the count.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/10/prop-38-california/\">This institute could get $4 billion from a ballot measure. With just three workers, is it ready?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The science research institute that would likely receive $4.2 billion in public taxpayer money if voters approve \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/proposition-38-research-bond/\">Proposition 38\u003c/a> this November had only three employees as of last month — far fewer than the 51 staffers it planned to have hired by last year.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Public statements and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28824106-responsive-documents-26-7631-redacted-copy/?q=email&mode=document#document/p1\">public records CalMatters\u003c/a> obtained raise questions about how well prepared the institute is to shepherd so much money if the bond measure passes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prop. 38 would allocate up to $8.4 billion in bonds for scientific research on diseases and cures concerning the immune system, with an emphasis on finding treatments for Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease. The ballot language stipulates that a single, unnamed research institute would receive half the bond’s money to conduct research and partner with other researchers if it meets highly specific criteria. Bonds are a type of debt that must be repaid. Previous \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/07/proposition-38-california/\">reporting by CalMatters\u003c/a> found only one institute in California currently meets those criteria: the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy. The institute’s principal funder is billionaire Gary K. Michelson, who wrote Prop. 38 and is by far the largest donor to its political campaign. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backers of the proposition said state bond money is needed to stabilize research funding after President Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/research-grants-california-2/\">repeatedly attempted\u003c/a> to cut existing and future federal science grants.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The measure’s critics say Prop. 38 is well-intentioned but poorly designed because it overlooks the many established public and nonprofit university and hospital research labs in California. They also say California should not subsidize subsets of scientific research and instead should support research more broadly. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CalMatters obtained documents that included the five-year business plan of the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy. The plan was part of the formal affiliation agreement between UCLA and the institute, which the two parties signed in August 2024. Among other details, the agreement requires the institute to pay UCLA 7.5% of the net revenue of any drugs and technologies developed by the institute’s staff. The institute is one of the founding tenants at a UCLA-owned research park in West Los Angeles, where the institute is leasing 235,000 square feet of research space, the institute says. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003c/p>\n",
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But as Governor Newsom weighs a presidential run, is he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106033/the-political-calculus-behind-newsoms-opposition-to-californias-billionaire-tax\">looking ahead to how it might play to donors and voters?\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A federal court has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-noncitizen-voting-justice-department-lawsuit-ed14390afb8af8fde1c2d0f6a90a0761\">rejected a Trump administration demand\u003c/a> that it force California officials to set aside the ballots of 20,000 registered voters, who the Department of Justice alleges are not citizens. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Proposition 38 would allocate more than $8 billion for health research grants. That’s something supporters say is critical, at a time when the Trump administration has tried to claw back funding. But \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/10/prop-38-california/\">CalMatters has been digging into concerns\u003c/a> about how that money would be distributed, with roughly $4 billion going to a single institution.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106033/the-political-calculus-behind-newsoms-opposition-to-californias-billionaire-tax\">How Prop 40 could impact the future political aspirations of Gavin Newsom \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To hear \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> talk about billionaires and inequality, you’d think he would be squarely behind a proposal on California’s November ballot that would levy a wealth tax on the richest Californians to help pay for healthcare. In a \u003ca href=\"https://gavinnewsom.substack.com/p/its-time-for-a-national-billionaires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video\u003c/a> posted to his Substack and YouTube channel in June, Newsom argued that the country’s tax system is “fundamentally broken.” “Think about this: Just 10% of the people, 10% of the people in the country, own two-thirds of the wealth. A 30-year-old, for the first time in American history, is not doing better than his or her parents. That’s a five-alarm fire,” he said. “It’s time for an economic reset, a true minimum tax. A true minimum tax on billionaires that ensures the people at the very top pay at least the tax rate their own workers pay.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But like many high-profile Democrats and some of their strongest allies in this deep blue state, the governor is opposed to Proposition 40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ballot measure, proposed by a healthcare union, would impose a one-time, 5% tax on the overall wealth of the state’s approximately 200 billionaires. The money would be used to backfill deep federal budget cuts to Medicaid, which provides health insurance to low-income Americans — including nearly 15 million Californians. Newsom has argued Proposition 40 is bad for California. He said this kind of tax should be imposed on the national level, so billionaires won’t just pack up and leave the state. And he insisted that the tax will ultimately hurt the state’s budget more than it will help, by chasing wealthy entrepreneurs and their businesses to other states with lower tax burdens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some progressives think the governor — who is eyeing a possible 2028 presidential run — is just wary of angering a donor class with deep pockets. Tech industry billionaires like Chris Larsen, Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen have become increasingly involved in funding campaigns in recent years. “There are a lot of elected officials who are so afraid of this billionaire class,” said California Federation of Labor Unions President Lorena Gonzalez, who supports Proposition 40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saikat Chakrabarti, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in San Francisco this year, went farther. Chakrabarti is co-founder and president of the progressive think tank New Consensus. “He’s made no secret of it — he’s going to run for president. And that’s why he’s not just opposed to Prop. 40. He’s vehemently campaigning against it because he needs those billionaires on his side,” Chakrabarti said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the billionaires may not be Newsom’s only audience. Fernando Guerra, a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University, said he thinks Newsom’s opposition to the billionaire tax will help him with centrist Democrats he would need to capture the Democratic nomination in 2028. “It defuses him being the total lefty from California,” said Guerra, who predicted that the tax will get defeated. If it loses, Guerra said, that only gives Newsom more fuel — especially because the coalition opposing the tax includes the California Teachers Association and some other big unions with political muscle. Guerra said that coalition allows Newsom to make a credibility argument and not just with moderate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim Kessler at the center-left think tank Third Way said that while more left-leaning candidates could attack Newsom in a presidential primary for opposing Proposition 40, those critiques could backfire. “That might help him, even in a Democratic primary, because the top issue for Democratic primary voters in presidential elections is, is this person electable? And they don’t think someone overly progressive is electable,” Kessler said. “No one believes that California is an under-taxed state. So there isn’t a belief out there that, oh, there’s all sorts of tax breaks for people and wealthy people in California.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-noncitizen-voting-justice-department-lawsuit-ed14390afb8af8fde1c2d0f6a90a0761\">Appeals court declines to block California from counting 20,000 disputed ballots\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An appeals court on Monday declined to rule on whether California elections officials can count roughly 20,000 ballots that the Justice Department alleges likely belong to noncitizen voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2-1 decision sets the Trump administration and state officials up for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">another legal showdown\u003c/a> on the matter on Tuesday in front of a federal district judge, giving the federal government a very short window to compel California to sequester votes before the Nov. 3 elections. The decision marks the latest in a string of legal setbacks for President Donald Trump’s administration as it seeks to assert greater federal control over state-run elections. Noncitizen voting has been a central focus of Trump’s political messaging for years, although available data indicates it is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noncitizens-voting-republicans-election-2024-immigration-09b86e6768f755fd875f3c51b0e8ea70\">exceedingly rare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the panel primarily ruled it was premature for an appeals court to get involved, two of the three judges also wrote separate concurrences making it clear they wouldn’t support setting aside ballots at this late date. They questioned the accuracy of the federal government’s list of alleged noncitizen voters and argued that to set aside votes risks disenfranchising citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-voting-noncitizens-lawsuit-12c62cf12a7db6480c60975b6dea49b8\">sued election officials\u003c/a> in the heavily Democratic state in mid-October, accusing them of failing to meet a 48-hour deadline to review a list of 20,000 people it alleged were likely noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls. The administration asked the judge to stop the state from counting those ballots until immigration status checks could be completed. The Justice Department made similar \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/washington-noncitizen-voting-63c17a3eadc9ed232fbd897afbd29b9d\">demands Monday in Washington\u003c/a>, another state with races that will help determine control of the U.S. Senate and House. Both state and federal law prohibit noncitizens from voting. But California officials say it’s not even clear the administration’s purported 20,000 noncitizen voters are actually not U.S. citizens. In court papers, Los Angeles election officials said the majority of a random sample of voters that the Department of Justice identified as immigrants seemed to have been born in the United States. The Justice Department, for its part, has said there is as much to lose from keeping the potentially illegal ballots in the count.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/10/prop-38-california/\">This institute could get $4 billion from a ballot measure. With just three workers, is it ready?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The science research institute that would likely receive $4.2 billion in public taxpayer money if voters approve \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/proposition-38-research-bond/\">Proposition 38\u003c/a> this November had only three employees as of last month — far fewer than the 51 staffers it planned to have hired by last year.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Public statements and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28824106-responsive-documents-26-7631-redacted-copy/?q=email&mode=document#document/p1\">public records CalMatters\u003c/a> obtained raise questions about how well prepared the institute is to shepherd so much money if the bond measure passes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prop. 38 would allocate up to $8.4 billion in bonds for scientific research on diseases and cures concerning the immune system, with an emphasis on finding treatments for Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease. The ballot language stipulates that a single, unnamed research institute would receive half the bond’s money to conduct research and partner with other researchers if it meets highly specific criteria. Bonds are a type of debt that must be repaid. Previous \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/07/proposition-38-california/\">reporting by CalMatters\u003c/a> found only one institute in California currently meets those criteria: the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy. The institute’s principal funder is billionaire Gary K. Michelson, who wrote Prop. 38 and is by far the largest donor to its political campaign. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backers of the proposition said state bond money is needed to stabilize research funding after President Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/research-grants-california-2/\">repeatedly attempted\u003c/a> to cut existing and future federal science grants.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The measure’s critics say Prop. 38 is well-intentioned but poorly designed because it overlooks the many established public and nonprofit university and hospital research labs in California. They also say California should not subsidize subsets of scientific research and instead should support research more broadly. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CalMatters obtained documents that included the five-year business plan of the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy. The plan was part of the formal affiliation agreement between UCLA and the institute, which the two parties signed in August 2024. Among other details, the agreement requires the institute to pay UCLA 7.5% of the net revenue of any drugs and technologies developed by the institute’s staff. The institute is one of the founding tenants at a UCLA-owned research park in West Los Angeles, where the institute is leasing 235,000 square feet of research space, the institute says. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, October 26, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>As immigration sweeps expand the number of detainees filling the nation’s detention centers, the amount of people who manage to be released is also growing. That means a steady stream of people are finding themselves in places they don’t know, including Kern County, which is home to four ICE detention facilities, the highest concentration of any county in California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-14/in-kern-county-a-volunteer-network-helps-people-released-from-ice-custody-get-back-home\">A grassroots movement\u003c/a> there has risen to help people find their way back home. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>In \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">a rare Sunday hearing\u003c/a>, a panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals questioned the timing and constitutionality of the Department of Justice efforts to intervene in California’s midterm election. The three judge panel seemed skeptical of the DOJ’s demand to hold aside 20,000 ballots, over concerns about the citizenship of voters.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-14/in-kern-county-a-volunteer-network-helps-people-released-from-ice-custody-get-back-home\">Kern County volunteers help people released from ICE custody get back home\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a Wednesday afternoon in September, the terminal inside the Bakersfield Amtrak and Greyhound station sat mostly empty. It was a regular day on the job for Ismael Larralde, who volunteers at the station to help passengers get to their bus or train.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But since the Trump administration has pushed for mass deportations and Congress approved historic funding for immigration enforcement and detention, Larralde has found himself doing something new: assisting people who have just been released from immigrant detention. “They’re very scared. They don’t know which direction to go, and if sometimes we approach them, they’re hesitant because of all the negativity they’ve been through,” Larralde said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this day, Larralde stood next to two men inside the train station who had just been released hours earlier from a nearby detention center. Kern County is home to four Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. It’s the highest concentration of any county in California. People released from the two detention centers in McFarland – Golden State Annex and Central Valley Annex – are sent to Fresno’s ICE field office for processing. Those released from the California City Detention Facility and the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center are received at the Bakersfield field office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That field office is located on Truxtun Avenue, just down the street from the train station. It’s where the men released today came from, and it’s where the newly released detainees processed at this office usually end up. Larralde said over the last two years that he has worked at the terminal, he has met people from New York, Maryland, Florida and even as far as Puerto Rico. And he’s learned how to spot someone who just got out. “They come in with red bags. There are documents inside, like onion sacks. A lot of times they just show up with a yellow envelope,”Larralde said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the number of detainees filling the nation’s immigration detention centers grows, so does the amount of people who manage to be released, with an increasing number of people filing for petitions of habeas corpus. That’s a legal filing that challenges the government’s reasoning to hold someone in detention. ICE data shows more than 2,500 detainees have come through Kern County just this year. Their average detention was between 25 and 69 days.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the two men waiting in the terminal that day, only one man agreed to talk with KVPR. He requested his name not be used. He’s scheduled to appear in immigration court the following month and doesn’t want to jeopardize his case. The man said he’d been living and working in Salt Lake City for nine years with a legal work permit. But over the summer, ICE officers detained him on his way to a grocery store. He spent the past two months in the California City Detention Facility. “In reality, they’re rounding up a lot of people, including those who have [work] permits or who have started the paperwork process – and they’re just taking everyone indiscriminately,” the man said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeannie Parent is the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kwesi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Kern Welcoming and Extending Solidarity to Immigrants\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kwesi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>KWESI\u003c/u>\u003c/a>). The organization provides aid to people held in detention centers, and responds when someone is released. “So we’re trying to work together to get him home. That’s the main priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parent is also in frequent communication with \u003ca href=\"https://faithinthevalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Faith in the Valley\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, a faith-based organization with presence all over the Central Valley that has picked up its work with immigrants under the heightened enforcement environment. She said it’s unclear how anyone released from detention could ever find their way home without organizations like KWESI, Faith in the Valley and volunteers like Larralde. “They’ve been shuffled around the whole country. They’ve been trafficked, basically, and then left in California, 3,000 miles from home, with no resources, and often their IDs and their work permits and their passports have been taken by ICE as well,” Parent said. KVPR reached out to the Department of Homeland Security about its personal property policy. The agency said all personal property is “removed and secured while a detainee is in custody” and given back “upon arrival to their final destination.” However, DHS did not respond to a request to clarify whether “final destination” refers to their home state or the facility where they were processed for release.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">\u003cstrong>9th Circuit questions DOJ demand to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A panel of federal appellate judges on Sunday questioned the timing, constitutionality and authority of the Justice Department’s demand that California election officials set aside \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-election-naturalization-voting-62ebeea82da863d93ee4e112e5b9f86e\">thousands of mail ballots\u003c/a> from people the federal government suspects may not be citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During rare weekend arguments, two of the three judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared skeptical of a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-voting-noncitizens-lawsuit-12c62cf12a7db6480c60975b6dea49b8\">lawsuit brought by President\u003c/a> Donald Trump’s administration in mid-October. The lawsuit accuses California officials of failing to meet a 48-hour deadline to review 20,000 names the administration flagged as likely noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls. The administration asked a federal judge to require the state to withhold counting those ballots until the voters’ immigration status could be verified. The district judge scheduled a hearing for Oct. 27, days after the case was assigned, but the federal government appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, seeking an expedited decision.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Department attorney Matthew Donnelly told the panel that California is causing irreparable harm “by allowing noncitizens to vote in violation of their own state laws. The damage is irreversible and irrevocable.” The Trump administration has made efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-noncitizen-voting-midterms-election-integrity-ids-3c24d72b0b91803ed097226ee00f9483\">identify noncitizen voters\u003c/a> a priority this year, even though noncitizen voting is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noncitizens-voting-republicans-election-2024-immigration-09b86e6768f755fd875f3c51b0e8ea70\">exceptionally rare.\u003c/a> Circuit Judge Mark Bennett, a Trump appointee, questioned whether the appellate court even has jurisdiction to hear the case even before a ruling by the lower court. Donnelly argued that the schedule set by the lower court judge was too slow and effectively a denial of the government’s request, as state elections officials process thousands of mail ballots every day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge Gabriel Sanchez, appointed by former President Joe Biden, questioned whether the federal government was violating the Tenth Amendment, essentially commandeering the state to enforce a federal law that makes it a misdemeanor for a noncitizen to vote. The federal government is simply asking California to enforce their own law, which also bans noncitizens from voting, Donnelly said. He argued the state’s refusal to comply with the federal request to set aside the ballots for review was “frustrating the purpose” of the federal law against noncitizen voting. The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures the power to set the time, place and manner of congressional elections, Bennett said. The executive branch may be “unhappy with what they’re doing, and doesn’t like the manner,” Bennett said, but under the Election Clause the state has the right to determine those issues — including how it sorts out any noncitizen voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attorney Seth Waxman, representing Los Angeles County Clerk Dean Logan, said the federal government’s list was unreliable and that segregating the ballots for a review process would effectively disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters. Waxman cited a review of 200 records from the Trump administration’s list conducted by Los Angeles County staffers. Assistant Registrar-Recorder Monica Flores said in a court filing that the sample included canceled or inactive registrations, individuals with no voting history and voters who appeared to have been born in the United States, which the filing notes “is strong evidence of citizenship.”\u003c/p>\n",
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That means a steady stream of people are finding themselves in places they don’t know, including Kern County, which is home to four ICE detention facilities, the highest concentration of any county in California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-14/in-kern-county-a-volunteer-network-helps-people-released-from-ice-custody-get-back-home\">A grassroots movement\u003c/a> there has risen to help people find their way back home. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>In \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">a rare Sunday hearing\u003c/a>, a panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals questioned the timing and constitutionality of the Department of Justice efforts to intervene in California’s midterm election. The three judge panel seemed skeptical of the DOJ’s demand to hold aside 20,000 ballots, over concerns about the citizenship of voters.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-14/in-kern-county-a-volunteer-network-helps-people-released-from-ice-custody-get-back-home\">Kern County volunteers help people released from ICE custody get back home\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a Wednesday afternoon in September, the terminal inside the Bakersfield Amtrak and Greyhound station sat mostly empty. It was a regular day on the job for Ismael Larralde, who volunteers at the station to help passengers get to their bus or train.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But since the Trump administration has pushed for mass deportations and Congress approved historic funding for immigration enforcement and detention, Larralde has found himself doing something new: assisting people who have just been released from immigrant detention. “They’re very scared. They don’t know which direction to go, and if sometimes we approach them, they’re hesitant because of all the negativity they’ve been through,” Larralde said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this day, Larralde stood next to two men inside the train station who had just been released hours earlier from a nearby detention center. Kern County is home to four Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. It’s the highest concentration of any county in California. People released from the two detention centers in McFarland – Golden State Annex and Central Valley Annex – are sent to Fresno’s ICE field office for processing. Those released from the California City Detention Facility and the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center are received at the Bakersfield field office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That field office is located on Truxtun Avenue, just down the street from the train station. It’s where the men released today came from, and it’s where the newly released detainees processed at this office usually end up. Larralde said over the last two years that he has worked at the terminal, he has met people from New York, Maryland, Florida and even as far as Puerto Rico. And he’s learned how to spot someone who just got out. “They come in with red bags. There are documents inside, like onion sacks. A lot of times they just show up with a yellow envelope,”Larralde said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the number of detainees filling the nation’s immigration detention centers grows, so does the amount of people who manage to be released, with an increasing number of people filing for petitions of habeas corpus. That’s a legal filing that challenges the government’s reasoning to hold someone in detention. ICE data shows more than 2,500 detainees have come through Kern County just this year. Their average detention was between 25 and 69 days.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the two men waiting in the terminal that day, only one man agreed to talk with KVPR. He requested his name not be used. He’s scheduled to appear in immigration court the following month and doesn’t want to jeopardize his case. The man said he’d been living and working in Salt Lake City for nine years with a legal work permit. But over the summer, ICE officers detained him on his way to a grocery store. He spent the past two months in the California City Detention Facility. “In reality, they’re rounding up a lot of people, including those who have [work] permits or who have started the paperwork process – and they’re just taking everyone indiscriminately,” the man said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeannie Parent is the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kwesi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Kern Welcoming and Extending Solidarity to Immigrants\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kwesi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>KWESI\u003c/u>\u003c/a>). The organization provides aid to people held in detention centers, and responds when someone is released. “So we’re trying to work together to get him home. That’s the main priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parent is also in frequent communication with \u003ca href=\"https://faithinthevalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Faith in the Valley\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, a faith-based organization with presence all over the Central Valley that has picked up its work with immigrants under the heightened enforcement environment. She said it’s unclear how anyone released from detention could ever find their way home without organizations like KWESI, Faith in the Valley and volunteers like Larralde. “They’ve been shuffled around the whole country. They’ve been trafficked, basically, and then left in California, 3,000 miles from home, with no resources, and often their IDs and their work permits and their passports have been taken by ICE as well,” Parent said. KVPR reached out to the Department of Homeland Security about its personal property policy. The agency said all personal property is “removed and secured while a detainee is in custody” and given back “upon arrival to their final destination.” However, DHS did not respond to a request to clarify whether “final destination” refers to their home state or the facility where they were processed for release.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">\u003cstrong>9th Circuit questions DOJ demand to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A panel of federal appellate judges on Sunday questioned the timing, constitutionality and authority of the Justice Department’s demand that California election officials set aside \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-election-naturalization-voting-62ebeea82da863d93ee4e112e5b9f86e\">thousands of mail ballots\u003c/a> from people the federal government suspects may not be citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During rare weekend arguments, two of the three judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared skeptical of a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-voting-noncitizens-lawsuit-12c62cf12a7db6480c60975b6dea49b8\">lawsuit brought by President\u003c/a> Donald Trump’s administration in mid-October. The lawsuit accuses California officials of failing to meet a 48-hour deadline to review 20,000 names the administration flagged as likely noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls. The administration asked a federal judge to require the state to withhold counting those ballots until the voters’ immigration status could be verified. The district judge scheduled a hearing for Oct. 27, days after the case was assigned, but the federal government appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, seeking an expedited decision.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Department attorney Matthew Donnelly told the panel that California is causing irreparable harm “by allowing noncitizens to vote in violation of their own state laws. The damage is irreversible and irrevocable.” The Trump administration has made efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-noncitizen-voting-midterms-election-integrity-ids-3c24d72b0b91803ed097226ee00f9483\">identify noncitizen voters\u003c/a> a priority this year, even though noncitizen voting is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noncitizens-voting-republicans-election-2024-immigration-09b86e6768f755fd875f3c51b0e8ea70\">exceptionally rare.\u003c/a> Circuit Judge Mark Bennett, a Trump appointee, questioned whether the appellate court even has jurisdiction to hear the case even before a ruling by the lower court. Donnelly argued that the schedule set by the lower court judge was too slow and effectively a denial of the government’s request, as state elections officials process thousands of mail ballots every day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge Gabriel Sanchez, appointed by former President Joe Biden, questioned whether the federal government was violating the Tenth Amendment, essentially commandeering the state to enforce a federal law that makes it a misdemeanor for a noncitizen to vote. The federal government is simply asking California to enforce their own law, which also bans noncitizens from voting, Donnelly said. He argued the state’s refusal to comply with the federal request to set aside the ballots for review was “frustrating the purpose” of the federal law against noncitizen voting. The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures the power to set the time, place and manner of congressional elections, Bennett said. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, October 22, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>The election is less than two weeks away. And Senator Bernie Sanders has been endorsing progressive candidates in races big and small across the country. In California’s Inland Empire, he endorsed Joz Sida, who’s running for the mayor of Fontana. But the endorsement hasn’t given Sida much traction. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A highly contagious strain of bird flu has reappeared in California. Two cases have been reported this month.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://kvcr.org/news/local/2026-10-14/progressive-candidates-challenge-fontanas-longtime-mayor-but-might-face-uphill-battle\">Senator Bernie Sanders endorses progressive candidate in Fontana race, but it’s not resonating with voters\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A slate of progressive candidates, including one \u003ca href=\"https://berniesanders.com/endorse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>endorsed\u003c/u>\u003c/a> by progressive stalwart Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), is trying to change the face of City Hall in Fontana in San Bernardino County. But the candidates face strong headwinds in the famously conservative town.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.jozsidaforfontana.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Joz Sida\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, 37, is running for mayor as a Democratic Socialist. At a recent gathering at Southridge Park in Fontana, she stood on a makeshift stage alongside a slate of progressive candidates running for offices ranging from city council to city treasurer. “Our campaign is about us going to the people, and the best way is at the local parks, is meeting them where they’re at,” Sida said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sida moved to Fontana as a teenager. She ran for a school board position in \u003ca href=\"https://results.rov.sbcounty.gov/results/20121106/default.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>2012,\u003c/u>\u003c/a> but lost. She left the Inland Empire and spent the next decade organizing and working on progressive campaigns across the country. “I’ve worked on reproductive rights. I’ve worked on immigrant rights,” said Sida. “I always hope to elect people that do good policy.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sida said she moved back home from Chicago in 2023 to bring the progressive fight to Fontana. She recruited a slate of candidates and decided to run for mayor against incumbent Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.acquanetta.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acquanetta Warren\u003c/a>, who has held the office for 16 years. During that time, Warren \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-27/fontana-california-warehouses-inland-empire-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>has taken credit\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for building up the warehousing industry and helping Fontana prosper economically. But Sida believes Warren has discouraged free speech and protest by limiting public input and supporting restrictions on protests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warren and the city council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/2024-06-27/fontana-credits-4leaf-for-its-effective-street-vending-law-vendors-say-their-livelihoods-are-hurt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>cracked down\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on street vendors in 2023, sparking outrage from residents, street vendors and some activists. Protests that erupted disrupted council meetings for several weeks. “We have tried everything we can within our power to help people get legal,” said Warren in Oct. 2023, after the council voted unanimously to support the crackdown. “So, now it’s time to grab a couple of hammers. Done.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protesters and influencers eventually gathered outside the mayor’s home to protest the street vendor laws. In response, the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/2023-12-13/fontana-votes-4-1-to-ban-protests-within-300-feet-of-homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>passed an ordinance\u003c/u>\u003c/a> making protesting and picketing illegal within 300 feet of a residence. Sida said the measure chilled public dissent over city policies and that the crackdown has largely affected Latino immigrants and families who live in Fontana. “I came back … street vendors were under attack. I came back, warehouses next to high schools. I come back and we’re still one of the worst in air quality,” Sida said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Allen, a senior columnist with the Southern California News Group who has followed Warren’s political career for 16 years, said Fontana has \u003ca href=\"https://livefromthefrontline.org/fontana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>deep blue-collar\u003c/u>\u003c/a> Democratic roots but was also a \u003ca href=\"https://calisphere.org/item/1315140305f7ae50f460f47e3ca77703/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>haven for white supremacists\u003c/u>\u003c/a> until the 1990s. In that context, Warren was a trailblazer when she became the city’s first Black mayor in 2010. “She’s certainly, you know, 100% pro Fontana. I think Fontana’s definitely improved economically. Its image has improved, kind of along with her tenure,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While progressives such as Sida have tapped into residents’ growing opposition to warehouses, Warren has received endorsements from the region’s two largest carpenter unions and the Teamsters, who represent county workers and warehouse workers at Amazon. Randy Korgan, secretary-treasurer of \u003ca href=\"https://teamsters1932-my.sharepoint.com/personal/rgonzalez_teamsters1932_org/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Frgonzalez%5Fteamsters1932%5Forg%2FDocuments%2FPAC%2Fendorsement%20guide%2Epdf&parent=%2Fpersonal%2Frgonzalez%5Fteamsters1932%5Forg%2FDocuments%2FPAC&ga=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Teamsters Local 1932\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, said Warren has supported pensions for city employees. “I think that she’s proven to be accessible,” Korgan said. “Look, I’ve been doing this long enough to know the difference between someone who’s going to work to get it done versus the lip service. She doesn’t give you lip service. Korgan said he is intrigued by Sida’s campaign, but that the Teamsters endorsed Warren because she has delivered for workers and that the mayor has focused on solving local problems, while staying away from issues that divide Americans nationally.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Bird flu detected again in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A highly contagious strain of bird flu has reappeared in California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting in 2022, highly pathogenic avian influenza ravaged the state’s poultry flocks and even dairy farms. The price of eggs skyrocketed as tens of millions of the state’s poultry had to be euthanized and hundreds of cattle herds were quarantined.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years, all those efforts worked. The state declared itself free from highly pathogenic bird flu in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, however, the virus was detected in a backyard flock in Sacramento County. State agriculture officials say this affected just 40 birds and will not lead to any restrictions on animal movement.\u003c/p>\n",
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Two cases have been reported this month.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://kvcr.org/news/local/2026-10-14/progressive-candidates-challenge-fontanas-longtime-mayor-but-might-face-uphill-battle\">Senator Bernie Sanders endorses progressive candidate in Fontana race, but it’s not resonating with voters\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A slate of progressive candidates, including one \u003ca href=\"https://berniesanders.com/endorse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>endorsed\u003c/u>\u003c/a> by progressive stalwart Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), is trying to change the face of City Hall in Fontana in San Bernardino County. But the candidates face strong headwinds in the famously conservative town.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.jozsidaforfontana.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Joz Sida\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, 37, is running for mayor as a Democratic Socialist. At a recent gathering at Southridge Park in Fontana, she stood on a makeshift stage alongside a slate of progressive candidates running for offices ranging from city council to city treasurer. “Our campaign is about us going to the people, and the best way is at the local parks, is meeting them where they’re at,” Sida said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sida moved to Fontana as a teenager. She ran for a school board position in \u003ca href=\"https://results.rov.sbcounty.gov/results/20121106/default.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>2012,\u003c/u>\u003c/a> but lost. She left the Inland Empire and spent the next decade organizing and working on progressive campaigns across the country. “I’ve worked on reproductive rights. I’ve worked on immigrant rights,” said Sida. “I always hope to elect people that do good policy.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sida said she moved back home from Chicago in 2023 to bring the progressive fight to Fontana. She recruited a slate of candidates and decided to run for mayor against incumbent Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.acquanetta.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acquanetta Warren\u003c/a>, who has held the office for 16 years. During that time, Warren \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-27/fontana-california-warehouses-inland-empire-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>has taken credit\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for building up the warehousing industry and helping Fontana prosper economically. But Sida believes Warren has discouraged free speech and protest by limiting public input and supporting restrictions on protests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warren and the city council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/2024-06-27/fontana-credits-4leaf-for-its-effective-street-vending-law-vendors-say-their-livelihoods-are-hurt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>cracked down\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on street vendors in 2023, sparking outrage from residents, street vendors and some activists. Protests that erupted disrupted council meetings for several weeks. “We have tried everything we can within our power to help people get legal,” said Warren in Oct. 2023, after the council voted unanimously to support the crackdown. “So, now it’s time to grab a couple of hammers. Done.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protesters and influencers eventually gathered outside the mayor’s home to protest the street vendor laws. In response, the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/2023-12-13/fontana-votes-4-1-to-ban-protests-within-300-feet-of-homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>passed an ordinance\u003c/u>\u003c/a> making protesting and picketing illegal within 300 feet of a residence. Sida said the measure chilled public dissent over city policies and that the crackdown has largely affected Latino immigrants and families who live in Fontana. “I came back … street vendors were under attack. I came back, warehouses next to high schools. I come back and we’re still one of the worst in air quality,” Sida said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Allen, a senior columnist with the Southern California News Group who has followed Warren’s political career for 16 years, said Fontana has \u003ca href=\"https://livefromthefrontline.org/fontana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>deep blue-collar\u003c/u>\u003c/a> Democratic roots but was also a \u003ca href=\"https://calisphere.org/item/1315140305f7ae50f460f47e3ca77703/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>haven for white supremacists\u003c/u>\u003c/a> until the 1990s. In that context, Warren was a trailblazer when she became the city’s first Black mayor in 2010. “She’s certainly, you know, 100% pro Fontana. I think Fontana’s definitely improved economically. 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But as the project nears final approval, it’s facing a new wave of backlash from some residents who have concerns about its impact on the environment. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A state lawmaker is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/racial-justice-social-equity/2026/10/12/state-lawmaker-calls-for-hearings-on-extreme-heat-at-donovan-state-prison\">calling for oversight hearings\u003c/a> into lockdowns that were imposed at a San Diego County correctional facility during last month’s intense heat wave. 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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059557/esmeralda-courts-locals-as-it-tries-to-learn-from-california-forevers-mistakes\">Esmeralda Land Company\u003c/a> has proposed building a resort hotel, hundreds of homes, an event center, a preschool and a public park on a 266-acre property that once housed a wood treatment plant.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tucked in the Sonoma County town of Cloverdale, the 8-acre plant was known to use harmful chemicals and discharged them into the soil and groundwater, she said. 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As it does, however, council members are weighing the homes, jobs and tax revenue such a project might generate against a new wave of concerns from residents over environmental harms.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Esmeralda CEO Devon Zuegel said she generally understands those concerns but argues the project has already undergone extensive environmental reviews. “This site has been studied for over two decades continuously,” Zuegel said. “And if 20 years is not a long enough review, I just don’t understand, is 100 years enough — 25 years? What is the point where it becomes enough?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Still, Sullivan isn’t satisfied. And she’s preparing to take the fight to voters. If the city council approves the Esmeralda development as is, Sullivan wants a referendum and said she’ll start collecting signatures to place such a measure on a ballot. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But some officials are skeptical about how widespread Sullivan’s concerns are among the general population. Vice-Mayor Todd Lands said the opposition might be loud, but he has seen more support for the project through letters from residents and conversations in the community. “I’ve noticed it’s about the same 15 to 20 people that have been anti-Esmeralda,” he said. “As the letters start steadily coming in, I’m starting to learn more about how the public actually feels as a whole.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Cloverdale Planning Commission voted 4-1 to recommend the council approve Esmeralda’s plan with conditions that seek to address some of Sullivan’s concerns, including requiring the developer to hire a consultant to monitor compliance with all environmental mitigation measures. Officials with the Esmeralda Land Company have hosted several informational town hall meetings with residents since 2024, but Sullivan said she didn’t hear about it until last winter. 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It highlights a statewide crisis and advocates and lawmakers have been sounding the alarm for years. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>More than a dozen \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/long-beach-peninsula-residents-join-scramble-to-save-homes-from-high-surf\">homes in Long Beach have been red-tagged \u003c/a>after Tropical Storm Rachel battered the Southern California Coast over the weekend.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/racial-justice-social-equity/2026/10/07/as-temperatures-soared-donovan-state-prison-confined-people-to-their-cells\">As temperatures soared, Donovan state prison confined people to their cells\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Through the window of his cell, Lonnie Kocontes could see the fans blowing, but all he felt was the heat bearing down. It was early September, and the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa had been on lockdown that morning. According to Kocontes, he and the other incarcerated people in his housing area couldn’t leave their cells. “It’s stifling and it’s frustrating,” said Kocontes, 68, during a recent phone call with KPBS. “If you’re on lockdown, you can’t do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last month’s heat wave sent temperatures soaring inside the state prison, according to three incarcerated people who spoke to KPBS. Amid the brutally hot weather, they said, prison officials also imposed lockdowns for multiple days — restricting access to large fans, ice water and other ways to stay cool.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates and civil rights attorneys said the accounts from inside Donovan highlight the urgent need for California prison officials to better protect incarcerated people from high temperatures — especially as climate change is expected to fuel more frequent and intense heat waves. “This goes far beyond discomfort,” said Lily Harvey, a senior staff attorney with the nonprofit Prison Law Office in Berkeley. “People are really suffering, and they’re scared.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or CDCR, confirmed that Donovan officials locked down parts of the prison during the heat wave. In an email to KPBS, CDCR spokesperson Mary Xjimenez said prison officials imposed the lockdowns because of “security concerns” but continued to follow department heat safety protocols.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Donovan is one of eight state prisons that are especially vulnerable to climate change, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://ellabakercenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Hidden-Hazards-Report-FINAL.pdf#page=39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>2023 report\u003c/u>\u003c/a> by the Oakland-based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Extreme heat events top the list of those climate risks for incarcerated people, said Eric Henderson, the center’s policy director and a co-author of the report. “This is one of these events that almost everyone universally experiences in the prison system,” Henderson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/fpcm/cdcr-infrastructure-master-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>California’s prison system is aging\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. The state’s prisons are 50 years old on average, with some of them dating as far back as the Gold Rush. Donovan state prison is about 40 years old. Many facilities were built from concrete and other materials that don’t keep out heat or cold. Less than a quarter have traditional air conditioning. CDCR is supposed to keep track of how hot and cold it gets at each facility, but there are few standards for when and where to measure those temperatures. 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In the community of Bonsall in San Diego County, a high school teacher \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2026/10/02/californias-new-native-american-studies-curriculum-comes-alive-in-a-bonsall-classroom\">is weaving the curriculum into his history class.\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Central Valley leaders are trying to assuage the anxieties of their constituents, who are worried about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-08/immigration-sweeps-hit-central-californias-farming-region-as-diesel-costs-also-worry-farmers\">a reported ICE crackdown\u003c/a> in the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2026/10/02/californias-new-native-american-studies-curriculum-comes-alive-in-a-bonsall-classroom\">California’s new Native American studies curriculum comes alive in a Bonsall classroom\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Can a government legitimately claim territory, even when other people already live there? If land is not being farmed or developed, does someone else have a right to use it?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Greg Hinchliff’s 11th-grade history students grappled with these questions on a recent morning at Bonsall High School. They moved to different parts of the room depending on what they thought, gathering around signs that ranged from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Then, they repeated the activity from the perspectives of Native Americans, European settlers, monarchs and religious leaders. “European religious leaders,” Hinchliff said to a group of students. “What would they say about this statement, that explorers can claim that land?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That they can claim it because they’re Christians, basically,” a student responded.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Right, because it goes back to that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1167056438/vatican-doctrine-of-discovery-colonialism-indigenous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>doctrine of discovery\u003c/u>\u003c/a>,” Hinchliff said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The activity comes from California’s Native American Studies Model Curriculum. 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There are 109 federally recognized tribes in California, plus many other tribal communities that aren’t recognized. “There’s not a lesson plan for every single tribe in the state,” Proudfit said. “This is merely the first step in the right direction.” Teachers can continue in the right direction, she said, by building relationships with members of local tribal communities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-08/immigration-sweeps-hit-central-californias-farming-region-as-diesel-costs-also-worry-farmers\">Immigration sweeps hit Central Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article317542396.html\">reports this week\u003c/a> of a significant increase in immigration enforcement activity across the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, State Senator Anna Caballero said her office has received reports that upwards of 60 people have been taken into ICE custody in her district in the past few days. 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If land is not being farmed or developed, does someone else have a right to use it?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Greg Hinchliff’s 11th-grade history students grappled with these questions on a recent morning at Bonsall High School. They moved to different parts of the room depending on what they thought, gathering around signs that ranged from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Then, they repeated the activity from the perspectives of Native Americans, European settlers, monarchs and religious leaders. “European religious leaders,” Hinchliff said to a group of students. “What would they say about this statement, that explorers can claim that land?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That they can claim it because they’re Christians, basically,” a student responded.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Right, because it goes back to that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1167056438/vatican-doctrine-of-discovery-colonialism-indigenous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>doctrine of discovery\u003c/u>\u003c/a>,” Hinchliff said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The activity comes from California’s Native American Studies Model Curriculum. Published in 2025, it has hundreds of free lesson plans and teaching materials. Hinchliff helped write it. There are lessons \u003ca href=\"https://camodelcurricula.ucdavis.edu/native-american-studies/whats-in-a-name-native-place-names-and-perspectives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for elementary school students\u003c/a> about Indigenous and colonial place names. Eighth graders can learn about \u003ca href=\"https://camodelcurricula.ucdavis.edu/native-american-studies/tribal-governments-sovereignty-treaties-and-constitutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tribal sovereignty and federal recognition\u003c/a>. High schoolers can learn about cultural fire practices.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2021, the California Department of Education allocated $4 million to develop the curriculum. Joely Proudfit (Luiseño/Payómkawichum, Tongva), director of the California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center at CSU San Marcos, was one of three people from across the state selected to lead the project. “We really wanted tribal communities to take the lead in helping us write this curriculum,” Proudfit said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>They held dozens of meetings with tribal communities throughout the state. There are 109 federally recognized tribes in California, plus many other tribal communities that aren’t recognized. “There’s not a lesson plan for every single tribe in the state,” Proudfit said. “This is merely the first step in the right direction.” Teachers can continue in the right direction, she said, by building relationships with members of local tribal communities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-08/immigration-sweeps-hit-central-californias-farming-region-as-diesel-costs-also-worry-farmers\">Immigration sweeps hit Central Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article317542396.html\">reports this week\u003c/a> of a significant increase in immigration enforcement activity across the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, State Senator Anna Caballero said her office has received reports that upwards of 60 people have been taken into ICE custody in her district in the past few days. 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The program prohibits outdoor signage, so customers led by Instagram and word-of-mouth are lining up at the secret locations for a private-garden experience.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the Echo Park neighborhood sits Loto Coffee. There are about a dozen people sitting in a terraced cactus garden – reading, sipping, chatting – as homeowner Julian Scharman pulls and pours espresso shots. “The focus here is excellent Mexican coffees,” Scharman said. “My mom is from Japan so there’s a lot of Japanese touches here that you’ll see . The handmade ceramics that I made myself that I serve all the coffee in, little Japanese sweets.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The personal touch is one of the hallmarks of these backyard cafes. Across town in Hollywood, Cold Brew Coffee Crew serves hand-batched iced coffee and homemade bread under a big avocado tree. Dustin Drury and Angela Infrarera run their cafe out of a leafy bungalow court that used to house actors in Western movies. “The most expensive thing is what? RENT! Well, we already pay rent for our bungalow so we were like what kind of businesses can we run out of our house?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The allure of these private spaces has a lot to do with how Los Angeles is laid out, says cultural critic David Ulin. “The history of Los Angeles has really been a history of a kind of private space city. 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Child psychiatrists and a pediatrician reviewed the responses. “We were actually hoping and expecting to see big improvements across the board based on that announcement,” said Tom Siegel, the institute’s executive director and a former Google trust and safety executive. “It didn’t, unfortunately, work out that way at all.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The report’s central finding concerns safety notifications. Testers linked more than a dozen new teen accounts to parent accounts, then spent up to an hour describing suicidal thoughts, self-harm or disordered eating. The parents received no alerts. The only two notifications the testers got came from older accounts with weeks of conversation history on sensitive topics.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>OpenAI pushed back on that finding. According to an editorial note added to the report, OpenAI told the researchers parent and teen accounts must be linked for about three hours before notifications can be sent, and the company has updated its help center to reflect this. 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The program prohibits outdoor signage, so customers led by Instagram and word-of-mouth are lining up at the secret locations for a private-garden experience.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the Echo Park neighborhood sits Loto Coffee. There are about a dozen people sitting in a terraced cactus garden – reading, sipping, chatting – as homeowner Julian Scharman pulls and pours espresso shots. “The focus here is excellent Mexican coffees,” Scharman said. “My mom is from Japan so there’s a lot of Japanese touches here that you’ll see . The handmade ceramics that I made myself that I serve all the coffee in, little Japanese sweets.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The personal touch is one of the hallmarks of these backyard cafes. Across town in Hollywood, Cold Brew Coffee Crew serves hand-batched iced coffee and homemade bread under a big avocado tree. Dustin Drury and Angela Infrarera run their cafe out of a leafy bungalow court that used to house actors in Western movies. “The most expensive thing is what? RENT! Well, we already pay rent for our bungalow so we were like what kind of businesses can we run out of our house?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The allure of these private spaces has a lot to do with how Los Angeles is laid out, says cultural critic David Ulin. “The history of Los Angeles has really been a history of a kind of private space city. There was a domestic quality to cultural life here,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, Ulin says, the city is becoming more integrated, with public transportation, vertical development and with these residential spaces turning into community hubs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103289/keep-teens-off-chatgpt-says-youth-ai-safety-institute\">Keep teens off ChatGPT, says Youth AI Safety Institute \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute has rated ChatGPT for Teens as an \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://institute.commonsensemedia.org/risk-assessments/chatgpt-teens\">“Unacceptable Risk” for everyone under 18\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/openai\">OpenAI\u003c/a> launched the teen version in August, promising “\u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-teens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stronger built-in safety protections\u003c/a>,” including alerts to parents when a teen discusses self-harm, a study mode parents can switch on, and a chatbot less likely to act like a friend. “If our system estimates someone is under 18 or they state their age is between 13 and 17, they are automatically placed into ChatGPT for Teens,” the announcement said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The institute tested the product before and after the launch, running more than 4,000 prompts on accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds. Child psychiatrists and a pediatrician reviewed the responses. “We were actually hoping and expecting to see big improvements across the board based on that announcement,” said Tom Siegel, the institute’s executive director and a former Google trust and safety executive. “It didn’t, unfortunately, work out that way at all.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The report’s central finding concerns safety notifications. Testers linked more than a dozen new teen accounts to parent accounts, then spent up to an hour describing suicidal thoughts, self-harm or disordered eating. The parents received no alerts. The only two notifications the testers got came from older accounts with weeks of conversation history on sensitive topics.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>OpenAI pushed back on that finding. According to an editorial note added to the report, OpenAI told the researchers parent and teen accounts must be linked for about three hours before notifications can be sent, and the company has updated its help center to reflect this. The help center now says it “may take up to a few hours” after linking. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/lausd-high-risk-insolvency-state-education-finance-agency\">LAUSD at high risk of insolvency, state education finance agency finds\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California’s school finance watchdog agency has found the Los Angeles Unified School District is at high risk of financial insolvency.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Financial Crisis and Management Assistance Team presented its analysis at Tuesday’s school board meeting. “FCMAT’s role is not to determine which programs the district should preserve, which reductions it should make or what agreements it should reach with the labor [unions],” Jennifer Noga, an intervention specialist with the agency, told the board. “That is 100% a local decision. 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(That LACOE evaluation is also what triggered the state evaluation in the first place.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>United Teachers Los Angeles, the union that represents LAUSD educators, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28725205-utla-response-lausd-fcmat-report-2026/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in a memo to the board\u003c/a> and in public comments that FCMAT’s analysis penalized the district for paying teachers more and overstated financial risk.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The district has a \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/lausd-board-budget-fiscal-stabilization-plan-2026-2027-school-year\">plan to cut spending\u003c/a>, which includes eliminating thousands of jobs and funding for high-needs schools. The district must also bargain with employee unions before implementing furlough days planned for the 2027-28 school year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-43\">An explainer on Proposition 43\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Proposition 43 on the November ballot would raise the requirement for increasing special taxes placed on the ballot by citizens. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Currently, special taxes proposed by cities, counties or special districts need that supermajority approval, but as a result of a 2017 California Supreme Court ruling, special taxes proposed by voters require only a majority vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The initiative is supported by business groups and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. 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He was there to campaign for progressive Democrat Randy Villegas, who’s trying to unseat Republican Congressman David Valadao in the District 22 race.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/shows/kcrw-reports/stories/huntington-beach-maga-city-council-faces-democratic-momentum\">Huntington Beach MAGA City Council faces Democratic momentum\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Erin Spivey used to work at the public library in Huntington Beach, and tells KCRW, “I wanted to be a librarian for the rest of my life.” But that changed after the all-Republican City Council started taking on social issues: declaring Huntington Beach a non-sanctuary city, banning Pride flags on city buildings. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Finally, when council members wanted to restrict books in the library, Spivey’s fight against them became personal. She quit. Now Spivey is one of the so-called “Surf City Four”—four Democrats running for City Council who want to take over the council’s majority.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One reason Spivey is hopeful? Huntington Beach isn’t actually majority Republican. Nearly 60% of the city’s voters are either Democrats or independents. Jon Gould is Dean of UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology. “There are a number of residents who feel like the city council has just gone too far to the right. That has a tendency to lead to a backlash,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Republicans are working hard to get out the vote too. Current Huntington Beach Mayor Casey McKeon rejects allegations of extreme partisan politics and said the City Council just represents the values of a traditionally conservative town. “Very strong patriotism in Huntington Beach, strong family values, core conservative values,” McKeon said. “And so the community just really embraced our conservative beliefs, and it’s just representing what the people want.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Becerra makes rare public campaign appearance in Riverside\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra made a rare campaign appearance in Riverside last week.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Friday, Becerra stood in front of 100-or-so people at the United Domestic Workers Union Hall in Riverside, to stump for Clarissa Cervantes. She’s running for a state assembly seat that represents voters from Riverside to Corona.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cervantes is a Riverside City Councilmember. She ran against the incumbent, Republican Leticia Castillo for the same seat two years ago. Cervantes lost by about 600 votes in a heavily Latino district.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castillo won in part by riding President Donald Trump’s coattails as Latino voters turned on Democrats. Democrats believe voters have soured on Trump. And Becerra did everything he could to tie this race, and by implication Cervantes’ opponent, to the president.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/sanders-villegas-rally-bakersfield-cd-22/\">Will Democrats’ midterm wave reach California’s Central Valley? Bernie Sanders rallies the vote\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Even in Bakersfield, the heart of conservative California, insurgent populism is having a moment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Exhibit A: The hundreds of sweaty Californians who braved 105-degree heat on Sunday to hear from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, progressive Democrats’ modern-day Moses. “Anytime he comes to Bakersfield, I always show up,” said local resident Kacie Mills, 34, who said Sunday was her third time seeing Sanders in her hometown. As a progressive in a historically conservative area, Sanders’ visits turn out people and organizations that “don’t get a lot of light,” Mills said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This time, she was more excited to hear from Randy Villegas, a progressive 31-year-old community college professor hoping to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/07/central-valley-congressional-race-agriculture-concerns/\">unseat Republican incumbent\u003c/a> Rep. David Valadao, who has represented the area for more than 12 years. “He’s someone who wasn’t really on my radar, and it’s nice to have someone who is, like, close to my age, who believes in things that I believe in,” Mills said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sanders held court at the high school alma mater of Republican former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, where he came to rally support for Villegas and other Democratic candidates. The contest in the 22nd Congressional District in central California is one of the most closely watched in the nation. “The good news is that people like Randy Villegas are standing up and running all over this country, taking on the establishment and winning!” Sanders said. “I want you to do everything you can, between now and election day, to make sure that Randy is your next congressman.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Villegas earned thunderous cheers as he berated Valadao for supporting cuts to Medicaid and nutrition assistance in Trump’s mega budget bill, refusing to challenge Trump’s recent deals that undercut U.S. ranchers by importing cheap Argentinian beef, and for taking campaign contributions from wealthy corporations such as PG&E and United Healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Valadao campaign declined CalMatters’ request to interview the congressmember. Villegas’ Sunday event in some ways gave Republicans what they have wanted; campaign operatives have been salivating at the chance to tie Villegas to far-left socialist ideology. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with House Republican leadership, spent more than $100,000 on mailers against Villegas \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/07/california-congressional-races-republican-fundraising/\">in the primary to elevate\u003c/a> his name ID among Democrats and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/06/22nd-district-primary-villegas/\">push him past\u003c/a> his more moderate Democratic opponent, Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/jasmeet-bains-165424\">Jasmeet Bains\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think it’s not a great idea to have this far left-leaning of a candidate,” said Cathy Abernathy, a Bakersfield-based Republican strategist who supports Valadao, though she does not live in his district. She said Sanders and Villegas woo voters with promises of free government-funded healthcare and other programs, and voters aren’t well educated enough in economics to interrogate how those programs will be funded.\u003c/p>\n",
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Now Spivey is one of the so-called “Surf City Four”—four Democrats running for City Council who want to take over the council’s majority.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One reason Spivey is hopeful? Huntington Beach isn’t actually majority Republican. Nearly 60% of the city’s voters are either Democrats or independents. Jon Gould is Dean of UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology. “There are a number of residents who feel like the city council has just gone too far to the right. That has a tendency to lead to a backlash,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Republicans are working hard to get out the vote too. Current Huntington Beach Mayor Casey McKeon rejects allegations of extreme partisan politics and said the City Council just represents the values of a traditionally conservative town. “Very strong patriotism in Huntington Beach, strong family values, core conservative values,” McKeon said. “And so the community just really embraced our conservative beliefs, and it’s just representing what the people want.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Becerra makes rare public campaign appearance in Riverside\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra made a rare campaign appearance in Riverside last week.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Friday, Becerra stood in front of 100-or-so people at the United Domestic Workers Union Hall in Riverside, to stump for Clarissa Cervantes. She’s running for a state assembly seat that represents voters from Riverside to Corona.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cervantes is a Riverside City Councilmember. She ran against the incumbent, Republican Leticia Castillo for the same seat two years ago. Cervantes lost by about 600 votes in a heavily Latino district.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castillo won in part by riding President Donald Trump’s coattails as Latino voters turned on Democrats. Democrats believe voters have soured on Trump. And Becerra did everything he could to tie this race, and by implication Cervantes’ opponent, to the president.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/sanders-villegas-rally-bakersfield-cd-22/\">Will Democrats’ midterm wave reach California’s Central Valley? 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The contest in the 22nd Congressional District in central California is one of the most closely watched in the nation. “The good news is that people like Randy Villegas are standing up and running all over this country, taking on the establishment and winning!” Sanders said. “I want you to do everything you can, between now and election day, to make sure that Randy is your next congressman.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Villegas earned thunderous cheers as he berated Valadao for supporting cuts to Medicaid and nutrition assistance in Trump’s mega budget bill, refusing to challenge Trump’s recent deals that undercut U.S. ranchers by importing cheap Argentinian beef, and for taking campaign contributions from wealthy corporations such as PG&E and United Healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Valadao campaign declined CalMatters’ request to interview the congressmember. 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