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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. Assembly Public Safety Committee Chair Nick Schultz says he was “gravely concerned” about the well-being of incarcerated people at the Donovan Correctional Facility.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103065/as-new-north-bay-neighborhood-nears-approval-environmental-concerns-weigh-heavy\">As new North Bay neighborhood nears approval, environmental concerns weigh heavily\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For the past 11 months, Jennifer Sullivan has been anxiously trying to sound an alarm. 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. Sullivan worries that disturbing the site with new development could resurface those chemicals and expose current residents to new harms. “This is the community that I live in,” Sullivan said. “The decision to approve this development is serious — it’s got serious consequences for our water, for public health.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the Cloverdale City Council will consider whether to approve the project — one of the largest developments in the city’s recent history — along with its extensive community benefits package and already-completed environmental reviews, essentially clearing the path for its eventual construction. 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. The scale of the project surprised her, she said, particularly the fact that Esmeralda wants to build a resort hotel with up to 160 rooms and more than 600 homes on site. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>State lawmaker calls for hearings on extreme heat at Donovan state prison\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A California lawmaker says he will press for oversight hearings after state prison officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/2026/10/07/as-temperatures-soared-donovan-state-prison-confined-people-to-their-cells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>imposed lockdowns during an intense heat wave\u003c/u>\u003c/a> at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility last month.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In an interview with KPBS, Assembly Public Safety Committee Chair Nick Schultz said he was gravely concerned for the health of incarcerated people at the state prison in the Otay Mesa area of San Diego. He said he would seek clarity from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which oversees the state prison system. “Just because someone has committed a serious crime and might be doing time at Donovan does not mean that they should be subject to cruel and unusual conditions,” said Schultz, a Democratic assemblymember from Burbank. “I will push for information and answers from CDCR when we return in January.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The lawmaker’s remarks came in response to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/2026/10/07/as-temperatures-soared-donovan-state-prison-confined-people-to-their-cells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>KPBS’ reporting last week\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that Donovan officials locked down parts of the prison for multiple days during the heat wave in September. As temperatures spiked to 94 degrees indoors, several incarcerated people said, correctional officers restricted their access to large fans, ice water and other ways to stay cool.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Schultz said those reports raised serious questions about the effectiveness of CDCR’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/family-resources/2022/09/02/cdcr-and-cchcs-extreme-heat-prevention-and-response-efforts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>heat safety plan\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, especially during security protocols like lockdowns. He plans to call on the Assembly to schedule oversight hearings in Sacramento when the new legislative session begins in January. During those hearings, lawmakers can ask state prison officials specific questions about the heat plan.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates and civil rights lawyers say the current heat plan doesn’t go far enough to protect incarcerated people as climate change brings \u003ca href=\"https://climateresilience.ca.gov/overview/impacts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>more frequent and more intense heat waves\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to California. For example, it lists cooling measures like ice water and fans but doesn’t specify when to implement those measures. The plan also does not include any specific language about lockdowns, said Lily Harvey, a staff attorney with the Prison Law Office in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. 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. 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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. 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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. 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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Now, \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/orange-county-e-bikes-bicycles-teens-students-school-district-bans-safety\">a lot of the news\u003c/a> is about crashes and serious injuries, often involving kids. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Lyft \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102378/lyft-agrees-to-272-million-wage-theft-lawsuit-as-uber-fights-on\">has agreed to pay more than $272 million\u003c/a> to settle a state lawsuit alleging it misclassified California drivers as independent contractors, rather than employees, from 2016 to 2020. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2026/09/parking-policy-masks-anti-muslim-discrimination/\">A new study\u003c/a> has found that when applying for building permits, mosques face more pushback over parking requirements than churches.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/orange-county-e-bikes-bicycles-teens-students-school-district-bans-safety\">E-bikes are Orange County teens’ ticket to independence. But are they too dangerous?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bell had already rung on a recent morning at Newport Beach’s Ensign Intermediate School. But two of the school’s students hadn’t made it to class. Instead, they were sitting on a sidewalk across from campus, detained by a police officer for parking their e-bikes on the street.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The situation at Ensign has gotten messy since the school district, Newport-Mesa Unified, \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/newport-mesa-e-bike-ban-k-8-schools\">\u003cu>voted to ban e-bikes\u003c/u>\u003c/a> from middle and elementary school campuses, citing safety concerns. Many students kept riding their e-bikes to school anyway, parking them in swarms in the surrounding neighborhood. The neighbors did not like this. Shouting matches ensued between students and homeowners. At least one student returned from class to find her tires deflated. The city responded to the tension by putting up “No e-bike parking” signs on several streets.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t want it in my neighborhood either, like, I get it,” said Corey Gulbranson, who got a $100 parking ticket on behalf of his daughter, one of the Ensign students detained for allegedly illegally parking her e-bike. “But at the end of the day, we’re just trying to get our kids to school on a legal mode of transportation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>E-bikes and significantly more powerful e-motorcycles have become very popular in many Orange County suburbs, where the streets are wide, public transit is spotty, and distances are longer than some are willing to pedal on a regular bike. For teens and tweens, e-bikes provide a taste of independence. They also relieve parents of some of their driving duties. Plus, e-bikes can replace polluting cars.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But their popularity has brought an alarming increase in serious injuries, especially among young riders. At Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, e-bike crashes are now sending more kids to the ER than any other cause, according to Dr. Tetsuya Takeuchi, the hospital’s trauma medical director. More than 70% of those patients had some level of head injury, from minor concussions to devastating brain damage, he said, often because they were not wearing a helmet. But even Takeuchi recognizes the nearly irresistible draw of e-bikes. “If you ride one, you realize how easy it is to go everywhere with it,” he said. “I am not by any means surprised at how popular this is, especially amongst kids.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer has taken some unusual approaches to addressing the e-bike dilemma. To date, he has pressed criminal charges — including for child endangerment — against four parents after their children were involved in collisions, all of them on e-motorcycles, not e-bikes. One of those parents, a woman from Aliso Viejo, was charged with three felonies, including involuntary manslaughter, after her 14-year-old son allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://ocdistrictattorney.gov/press/aliso-viejo-mother-charged-with-felony-child-endangerment-after-vietnam-veteran-critically-injured-when-he-was-hit-by-womans-14-year-old-son-illegally-riding-an-e-motorcycle-16-times-more-po/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">struck and killed an 81-year-old man\u003c/a> while doing wheelies in the street in Lake Forest on an e-motorcycle souped up to reach 60 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The DA’s office said it has also sent letters to retailers reminding them of a ban on selling products used to modify e-bikes to go faster than legally allowed. Spitzer recently tried \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/e-bike-e-motorcycle-buyback-event-orange-county-todd-spitzer\">\u003cu>another novel approach\u003c/u>\u003c/a>: buybacks. On a recent Sunday, hundreds of people brought their e-bikes, e-scooters and e-motos to an event at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, hoping to turn them in for up to a thousand dollars in gift cards. The county event was paid for with $100,000 in asset forfeiture funds.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102378/lyft-agrees-to-272-million-wage-theft-lawsuit-as-uber-fights-on\">Lyft agrees to $272 million wage theft lawsuit as Uber fights on\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/lyft\">Lyft\u003c/a> has agreed to pay more than $272 million to settle a state lawsuit alleging it committed wage theft by misclassifying California drivers as independent contractors, rather than employees, from 2016 to 2020. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-city-attorneys-san-francisco-san-diego-and-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced\u003c/a> the deal on Thursday alongside city attorneys for San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. He said Lyft, which has argued its drivers were always properly classified, spent years trying to push the case into private arbitration. “All the while Lyft grew into a multibillion-dollar company, and a household name. Its success depended on its drivers, many of whom came from immigrant communities and communities of color, and still, Lyft failed to protect those drivers and failed to pay them fairly,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He called it the largest worker misclassification settlement in California history. “The bottom line is that eligible drivers are going to get paid. That’s money in the pockets of the workers who drove this company’s success,” the attorney general said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Most of the money, at least $237 million, is set to go to drivers. “This was rent that didn’t get paid, food that wasn’t there for hungry kids. We’ve waited six years for this,” said Alvaro Bolainez, vice president of Rideshare Drivers United, a union representing over 20,000 drivers, in a statement. “It’s a big settlement — but it’s not big enough to cover the real harm that’s happened to drivers over the years.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The settlement still needs a judge’s approval. In a statement, Lyft said the deal “closes a chapter from a very different time, before Prop 22,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/prop-22\">the 2020 ballot measure\u003c/a> that let app-based companies keep treating drivers as contractors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>New research shows mosques face more pushback over parking requirements\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2026/09/parking-policy-masks-anti-muslim-discrimination/\">A new study\u003c/a> has found that when applying for building permits, mosques face more pushback over parking requirements than churches.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The study was published in The Journal of the American Planning Association in September. It found that mosques were 16 to 18% more likely to experience opposition than newly proposed Christian churches. Mark Massoud is a professor at UC Santa Cruz, and coauthor of the study. “ If someone comes to a planning commission hearing, and they say ‘I don’t want Muslims in my neighborhood these people, especially in progressive cities and towns like here in California, will probably not be taken seriously,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But, another tactic is to raise a more legitimate concern like worries over the amount of parking. Massoud said that mosques in general do provide adequate parking, but that they’re still asked to jump through extra hoops. In some cases, approval can be delayed for a decade or more over permitting issues.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The report encourages cities to consistently apply zoning standards to all projects as a way to reduce bias.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, October 2, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Governor Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102184/california-cracks-down-on-e-motos-youth-e-bike-riders-with-new-laws\">signed three laws this week\u003c/a> aimed at addressing some of the most pressing safety concerns surrounding electric bicycles, as the devices’ popularity continues to rise in California. It was not long ago that the headlines about e-bikes seemed full of promise, as a replacement for gas-guzzling cars, and an affordable, flexible new mode of transportation. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/orange-county-e-bikes-bicycles-teens-students-school-district-bans-safety\">a lot of the news\u003c/a> is about crashes and serious injuries, often involving kids. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Lyft \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102378/lyft-agrees-to-272-million-wage-theft-lawsuit-as-uber-fights-on\">has agreed to pay more than $272 million\u003c/a> to settle a state lawsuit alleging it misclassified California drivers as independent contractors, rather than employees, from 2016 to 2020. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2026/09/parking-policy-masks-anti-muslim-discrimination/\">A new study\u003c/a> has found that when applying for building permits, mosques face more pushback over parking requirements than churches.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/orange-county-e-bikes-bicycles-teens-students-school-district-bans-safety\">E-bikes are Orange County teens’ ticket to independence. But are they too dangerous?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bell had already rung on a recent morning at Newport Beach’s Ensign Intermediate School. But two of the school’s students hadn’t made it to class. Instead, they were sitting on a sidewalk across from campus, detained by a police officer for parking their e-bikes on the street.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The situation at Ensign has gotten messy since the school district, Newport-Mesa Unified, \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/newport-mesa-e-bike-ban-k-8-schools\">\u003cu>voted to ban e-bikes\u003c/u>\u003c/a> from middle and elementary school campuses, citing safety concerns. Many students kept riding their e-bikes to school anyway, parking them in swarms in the surrounding neighborhood. The neighbors did not like this. Shouting matches ensued between students and homeowners. At least one student returned from class to find her tires deflated. The city responded to the tension by putting up “No e-bike parking” signs on several streets.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t want it in my neighborhood either, like, I get it,” said Corey Gulbranson, who got a $100 parking ticket on behalf of his daughter, one of the Ensign students detained for allegedly illegally parking her e-bike. “But at the end of the day, we’re just trying to get our kids to school on a legal mode of transportation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>E-bikes and significantly more powerful e-motorcycles have become very popular in many Orange County suburbs, where the streets are wide, public transit is spotty, and distances are longer than some are willing to pedal on a regular bike. For teens and tweens, e-bikes provide a taste of independence. They also relieve parents of some of their driving duties. Plus, e-bikes can replace polluting cars.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But their popularity has brought an alarming increase in serious injuries, especially among young riders. At Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, e-bike crashes are now sending more kids to the ER than any other cause, according to Dr. Tetsuya Takeuchi, the hospital’s trauma medical director. More than 70% of those patients had some level of head injury, from minor concussions to devastating brain damage, he said, often because they were not wearing a helmet. But even Takeuchi recognizes the nearly irresistible draw of e-bikes. “If you ride one, you realize how easy it is to go everywhere with it,” he said. “I am not by any means surprised at how popular this is, especially amongst kids.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer has taken some unusual approaches to addressing the e-bike dilemma. To date, he has pressed criminal charges — including for child endangerment — against four parents after their children were involved in collisions, all of them on e-motorcycles, not e-bikes. One of those parents, a woman from Aliso Viejo, was charged with three felonies, including involuntary manslaughter, after her 14-year-old son allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://ocdistrictattorney.gov/press/aliso-viejo-mother-charged-with-felony-child-endangerment-after-vietnam-veteran-critically-injured-when-he-was-hit-by-womans-14-year-old-son-illegally-riding-an-e-motorcycle-16-times-more-po/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">struck and killed an 81-year-old man\u003c/a> while doing wheelies in the street in Lake Forest on an e-motorcycle souped up to reach 60 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The DA’s office said it has also sent letters to retailers reminding them of a ban on selling products used to modify e-bikes to go faster than legally allowed. Spitzer recently tried \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/e-bike-e-motorcycle-buyback-event-orange-county-todd-spitzer\">\u003cu>another novel approach\u003c/u>\u003c/a>: buybacks. On a recent Sunday, hundreds of people brought their e-bikes, e-scooters and e-motos to an event at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, hoping to turn them in for up to a thousand dollars in gift cards. The county event was paid for with $100,000 in asset forfeiture funds.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102378/lyft-agrees-to-272-million-wage-theft-lawsuit-as-uber-fights-on\">Lyft agrees to $272 million wage theft lawsuit as Uber fights on\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/lyft\">Lyft\u003c/a> has agreed to pay more than $272 million to settle a state lawsuit alleging it committed wage theft by misclassifying California drivers as independent contractors, rather than employees, from 2016 to 2020. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-city-attorneys-san-francisco-san-diego-and-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced\u003c/a> the deal on Thursday alongside city attorneys for San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. He said Lyft, which has argued its drivers were always properly classified, spent years trying to push the case into private arbitration. “All the while Lyft grew into a multibillion-dollar company, and a household name. Its success depended on its drivers, many of whom came from immigrant communities and communities of color, and still, Lyft failed to protect those drivers and failed to pay them fairly,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He called it the largest worker misclassification settlement in California history. “The bottom line is that eligible drivers are going to get paid. That’s money in the pockets of the workers who drove this company’s success,” the attorney general said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Most of the money, at least $237 million, is set to go to drivers. “This was rent that didn’t get paid, food that wasn’t there for hungry kids. 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In a statement, Lyft said the deal “closes a chapter from a very different time, before Prop 22,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/prop-22\">the 2020 ballot measure\u003c/a> that let app-based companies keep treating drivers as contractors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>New research shows mosques face more pushback over parking requirements\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2026/09/parking-policy-masks-anti-muslim-discrimination/\">A new study\u003c/a> has found that when applying for building permits, mosques face more pushback over parking requirements than churches.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The study was published in The Journal of the American Planning Association in September. It found that mosques were 16 to 18% more likely to experience opposition than newly proposed Christian churches. 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Four women were carried away on stretchers. 13 women sued, saying the operation was retaliation for complaints of sexual abuse. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>California is taking steps to shield its coastline, as the Trump administration moves to increase offshore oil drilling.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Orange County officials have declared coastal erosion along the county’s coastline \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/oc-transportation-agency-board-declares-coastal-erosion-emergency\">an emergency.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://snapjudgment.org/episode/we-are-jane-doe-e2-operation-breakdown/\">Inside a mass use-of-force incident at women’s prison\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s the summer of 2024, and Antoinette Yancey, who’s incarcerated at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, said a sergeant named Isidro Arroyo came up to her. “And he said to me, the PREA, the staff assaults, the complaints and all the 602s, all of that stuff needs to stop,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>PREA complaints are those related to sexual abuse under the Prison Rape Elimination Act.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yancy is on the Inmate Advisory council, which mediates issues between incarcerated people and staff. She said Arroyo’s demand came with a threat— if the complaints didn’t stop. “I’m going to lock you guys down, take all your privileges, and this is gonna continue until the complaints stop,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At least four other women said to KQED or in legal filings that they’d been warned to stop reporting sexual assault. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation didn’t answer questions about this incident and denied requests to interview Arroyo.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>About a month later, on the morning of August 2, Yancey and the other women at the facility, including Irene Avalos, were getting ready for the day when officers said they were going to search the entire housing unit. More than 150 women were marched into the dining hall, where they waited for hours, without food, medication or water. “Just a rude awakening. 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Four women were carried away on stretchers. 13 women sued, saying the operation was retaliation for complaints of sexual abuse. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>California is taking steps to shield its coastline, as the Trump administration moves to increase offshore oil drilling.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Orange County officials have declared coastal erosion along the county’s coastline \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/oc-transportation-agency-board-declares-coastal-erosion-emergency\">an emergency.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://snapjudgment.org/episode/we-are-jane-doe-e2-operation-breakdown/\">Inside a mass use-of-force incident at women’s prison\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s the summer of 2024, and Antoinette Yancey, who’s incarcerated at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, said a sergeant named Isidro Arroyo came up to her. “And he said to me, the PREA, the staff assaults, the complaints and all the 602s, all of that stuff needs to stop,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>PREA complaints are those related to sexual abuse under the Prison Rape Elimination Act.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yancy is on the Inmate Advisory council, which mediates issues between incarcerated people and staff. She said Arroyo’s demand came with a threat— if the complaints didn’t stop. “I’m going to lock you guys down, take all your privileges, and this is gonna continue until the complaints stop,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At least four other women said to KQED or in legal filings that they’d been warned to stop reporting sexual assault. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation didn’t answer questions about this incident and denied requests to interview Arroyo.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>About a month later, on the morning of August 2, Yancey and the other women at the facility, including Irene Avalos, were getting ready for the day when officers said they were going to search the entire housing unit. More than 150 women were marched into the dining hall, where they waited for hours, without food, medication or water. “Just a rude awakening. 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Then officers deploy another round of chemical blast grenades and tear gas, throwing them at random at the group of restrained women.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Eventually, four women were carried away on stretchers. 13 women sued CDCR over injuries they suffered that day. Their lawsuit also said the operation was retaliation for complaints of sexual abuse. 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This allows Californians with a library card access to free day-use entry passes to over 200 state parks.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/oc-transportation-agency-board-declares-coastal-erosion-emergency\">OC Transportation Agency board declares coastal erosion emergency\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Orange County Transportation Authority board on Monday declared coastal erosion conditions an emergency, allowing the agency to speedily replenish sand at San Clemente’s disappearing beaches in an effort to protect the coastal rail line.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The agency plans to place 690,000 cubic yards of sand across North Beach, Mariposa Point and San Clemente State Beach. The efforts will create between 80 and 130 feet of additional dry beach. 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The incident led to an investigation into abuse at one of the largest women’s prisons. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Governor Gavin Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12101563/newsom-vetoes-bill-to-fund-immigration-attorneys-in-rural-california\">vetoed a bill aimed at strengthening the pipeline of new immigration lawyers\u003c/a>, to serve rural parts of California – where there are many immigrants, but few attorneys. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>New research on Valley fever shows that the fungal disease, endemic to parts of Central and Southern California, is not just coming from dust particles in rural areas.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://snapjudgment.org/episode/we-are-jane-doe-e2-operation-breakdown/\">Widespread abuse alleged at Central California Women’s Facility\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alexandria Prout is also known as Jane Doe #1. Back in 2022, she was sent to the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. She was stopped on the way to a medical appointment by a correctional officer. “He said – you have beautiful lips and beautiful eyes. You’re so beautiful,” Prout said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A few days later, Prout was told she had an attorney’s visit. When she arrived at the hearing room, there was no visit. There were also no cameras. But that officer, Gregory Rodriguez, was there. “He showed me his office next door. He said, there’s also no cameras in this room,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Then Rodriguez sexually assaulted her. Afterwards, Prout said he warned her if she reported him, she could get a write up and spend more time in prison. “I’m like – I can do one of two things. Fight him and pray that his superiors and fellow correctional officers are gonna believe me, a convicted felon, or I can just compartmentalize,” she said. Prout collected evidence and took note of the cameras in the prison. When she was released in August 2022 she started calling lawyers. It turned out the state was already investigating Rodriguez. They would go on to identify 22 potential victims.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Amika Mota is executive director of a prison advocacy nonprofit. As part of a broader effort deal with sexual abuse in the state’s women’s facilities, her group was tapped by the legislature to hold meetings where incarcerated people could talk privately about their experiences. “The arrest of Officer Rodriguez in 2023 was a real pivotal moment. I feel like it’s kind of when Pandora’s Box opened,” Mota said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hundreds of women started filing complaints and civil claims against Rodriguez and other officers. By the summer of 2024, Prout was preparing to testify against Rodriguez in his criminal trial, when something big happened. She got a call from her former cellmate, Catrina Cameron, who was still inside. She told Prout she couldn’t see out of one eye. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004368/like-a-war-zone-prison-officers-used-unprecedented-force-in-august-attack-incarcerated-women-say\">Officers had used pepper spray and tear gas on her and more than 150 women\u003c/a> in the dining hall.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prout says the call made her wonder if it had anything to do with her coming forward, and whether it was retaliation for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12101563/newsom-vetoes-bill-to-fund-immigration-attorneys-in-rural-california\">Newsom vetoes bill to support immigration attorneys in rural California\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. 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Anna Caballero, would have codified an existing legal fellowship pilot program placing newly minted lawyers at immigrant-serving community organizations in underserved regions such as the Central Valley, Inland Empire and Central Coast, and pairing them with experienced immigration lawyers from urban areas who provide intensive training and mentorship.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The legislature sent it to the governor’s desk at a time when the Trump administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">ramped up immigration arrests\u003c/a> in the state and across the country to new levels as part of the president’s mass deportation campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since 2019, the pilot program has received about $2.5 million a year, and the current budget provides $7.5 million — three years worth of funding — so the program is expected to continue operating for now. 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She got a call from her former cellmate, Catrina Cameron, who was still inside. She told Prout she couldn’t see out of one eye. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004368/like-a-war-zone-prison-officers-used-unprecedented-force-in-august-attack-incarcerated-women-say\">Officers had used pepper spray and tear gas on her and more than 150 women\u003c/a> in the dining hall.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prout says the call made her wonder if it had anything to do with her coming forward, and whether it was retaliation for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12101563/newsom-vetoes-bill-to-fund-immigration-attorneys-in-rural-california\">Newsom vetoes bill to support immigration attorneys in rural California\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. 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But is the Democrat taking that lead for granted? \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Governor Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/27/governor-newsom-signs-bills-to-strengthen-accountability-for-cold-storage-facilities-following-emergency-in-boyle-heights/\">has signed two new safety laws\u003c/a> after a fire at a cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood just east of downtown Los Angeles. 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That’s a 25-point lead for Becerra, which increased from 18-points in August.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Becerra’s lead is not without concerns. The poll found that 40% of the state’s likely voters view him unfavorably. Despite that, Becerra has for the most part kept a low profile since the June primary. He’s declined most interview requests. But his opponent, Hilton, has taken advantage by making the media rounds. “He’s also poking Becerra and Becerra’s absence,” said KQED Politics Correspondent Marisa Lagos.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Along with avoiding a lot of interviews, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/08/california-governor-becerra-profile-promises/\">Becerra has been fairly noncommittal \u003c/a>when it comes to issues the state is dealing with. The vagueness of Becerra’s positions is “textbook political science,” said Melissa Michelson, a political science professor at Menlo College. Because he faces Hilton in the general election, Becerra is likely to win based on Democrats’ voter registration advantage in California alone. He doesn’t have to do much to persuade Democrats to pick him, needing only to excite liberal voters enough to turn out in the last few weeks before November, Michelson said. “He doesn’t have an incentive to go out on a limb” on policies, she said. “You don’t want to mess up, you don’t want to do anything crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For his part, Becerra said he will be ramping up events and interviews in October.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Newsom signs a number of bills\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Governor Gavin Newsom signed a number of bills over the weekend. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12101538/newsom-signs-new-protections-for-lgbtq-reproductive-rights\">signed over a dozen bills into law\u003c/a> that increase safeguards around LGBTQ+ identity data, change how health insurance companies reimburse for HIV prevention drugs and expand access to medication abortion on certain community college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on the LGBTQ community, using medical records to target U.S. servicemembers and civilians alike, hurting countless people and betraying hard-won trust,” Newsom said in a statement. “California will not stand for it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The governor also signed a package of bills related to gun safety. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senate Bill 948\u003c/a> would apply to current residents with newly purchased guns starting in 2029. 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Curtis counters that he doesn’t have to bring ballots to Sacramento because the FBI is already on the case. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The group behind a ballot measure to reform California’s landmark environmental protection law is rejecting claims it will make it easier to build data centers. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Residents in Riverside County are raising the alarm on a small data center project being proposed for the fairgrounds near Lake Perris. But officials say the proposal is still in its early stages.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/shasta-county-elections-fbi-ballot-investigation/\">FBI visits California MAGA stronghold after elections chief alleges ballot stuffing\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>FBI agents paid a visit to Shasta County last week after Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis claimed ballots looked, felt and smelled funny as workers were counting them in the June primary, an election he happened to lose. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>They visited the room in the Shasta County elections office where Curtis had locked away ballots from the June election in anticipation of the FBI’s eventual arrival. The agents, Curtis said, inspected the boxes holding them as part of what he claims is an election-fraud investigation. Curtis said a federal grand jury subpoena ordered him to bring the ballots to court in Sacramento this week. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The FBI’s inspection came after other Shasta County officials also urged the federal and state government to investigate, but for a different reason: To prove Curtis’ claims about widespread election fraud wrong. “The county condemns the conduct of the Clerk-Registrar of Voters and invites all relevant state and federal agencies to review the allegations he has made and to proactively investigate his official actions and practices as Shasta County’s elections official,” officials said \u003ca href=\"https://www.shastacounty.gov/media/85046\">in a statement last month\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The extraordinary level of federal involvement in the heavily conservative county a two-and-a-half hour drive north of Sacramento comes as Trump and his MAGA movement hunt for evidence of widespread election fraud that experts say doesn’t exist. It follows a handful of cases this year of federal and MAGA-aligned local authorities seizing ballots from past elections in California and in other states. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After he lost the June election, Curtis, a longtime conspiracy theorist and election denier whose final official act will be to oversee November’s election in Shasta, began claiming some of the mail-in ballots that arrived at the elections office seemed off. “We had a lot of weird ballots coming in, so we have the whole counterfeit ballot thing, which is what the feds are looking at, which is essentially the fact that the paper is wrong,” Curtis said in an hourlong interview with CalMatters in the Redding elections office. “And it smelled wrong before, but now it doesn’t smell anymore. Two months have gone by, but when we did our first initial — you know, I had a dozen people say ‘Something’s wrong with this.’ When you’re flipping through ballots, you kind of get used to the thickness and the size, and suddenly you hit one that’s, you know, considerably thicker.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Curtis claims the wrong paper issue is possible proof of something he and other MAGA conspiracy theorists have long claimed happens regularly in California and other states with mail-in voting: Nefarious actors are fixing elections by stuffing fake ballots into drop-off boxes. Election experts have a word for such claims: Nonsense. They say there are so many safeguards in place to verify signatures and scan ballots that it would be nearly impossible to forge huge numbers of ballots and not get immediately caught. Sonni Waknin, an attorney at the UCLA Voting Rights Project, used her own experience to highlight how well California’s safeguards work. She said one of her ballots in a past election was flagged at a California elections office because the signature she used to register to vote didn’t appear to match the one she signed on her ballot. Elections officials reached out to her to verify it was her signature, and she was required to fill out a form to declare it was indeed Waknin who filled out her ballot. “You get caught when it’s not even forged,” she said. “When people try to commit fraud, they get caught.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Curtis said FBI agents showed up last week at the election office to inspect the room where he’d stored ballots. Curtis had a padlock installed and had hung “Keep Out” signs on the door in anticipation of an investigation. The FBI agents brought bolt cutters to get in the room. Curtis said representatives from the California secretary of state’s office were also there observing. He said the federal authorities didn’t take any ballots with them. 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Curtis counters that he doesn’t have to bring ballots to Sacramento because the FBI is already on the case. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The group behind a ballot measure to reform California’s landmark environmental protection law is rejecting claims it will make it easier to build data centers. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Residents in Riverside County are raising the alarm on a small data center project being proposed for the fairgrounds near Lake Perris. 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It follows a handful of cases this year of federal and MAGA-aligned local authorities seizing ballots from past elections in California and in other states. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After he lost the June election, Curtis, a longtime conspiracy theorist and election denier whose final official act will be to oversee November’s election in Shasta, began claiming some of the mail-in ballots that arrived at the elections office seemed off. “We had a lot of weird ballots coming in, so we have the whole counterfeit ballot thing, which is what the feds are looking at, which is essentially the fact that the paper is wrong,” Curtis said in an hourlong interview with CalMatters in the Redding elections office. “And it smelled wrong before, but now it doesn’t smell anymore. Two months have gone by, but when we did our first initial — you know, I had a dozen people say ‘Something’s wrong with this.’ When you’re flipping through ballots, you kind of get used to the thickness and the size, and suddenly you hit one that’s, you know, considerably thicker.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Curtis claims the wrong paper issue is possible proof of something he and other MAGA conspiracy theorists have long claimed happens regularly in California and other states with mail-in voting: Nefarious actors are fixing elections by stuffing fake ballots into drop-off boxes. Election experts have a word for such claims: Nonsense. They say there are so many safeguards in place to verify signatures and scan ballots that it would be nearly impossible to forge huge numbers of ballots and not get immediately caught. Sonni Waknin, an attorney at the UCLA Voting Rights Project, used her own experience to highlight how well California’s safeguards work. She said one of her ballots in a past election was flagged at a California elections office because the signature she used to register to vote didn’t appear to match the one she signed on her ballot. Elections officials reached out to her to verify it was her signature, and she was required to fill out a form to declare it was indeed Waknin who filled out her ballot. “You get caught when it’s not even forged,” she said. “When people try to commit fraud, they get caught.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Curtis said FBI agents showed up last week at the election office to inspect the room where he’d stored ballots. Curtis had a padlock installed and had hung “Keep Out” signs on the door in anticipation of an investigation. The FBI agents brought bolt cutters to get in the room. Curtis said representatives from the California secretary of state’s office were also there observing. He said the federal authorities didn’t take any ballots with them. They left a green evidence cable lock marked with the word “SECURED” where Curtis’ padlock once hung. Curtis said the FBI didn’t tell him what they were looking for. “I just showed them what we had,” he said. “The FBI never says anything to you, by the way … it’s information in and nothing out.” Curtis says a federal grand jury in Sacramento ordered him to bring boxes containing the ballots but on Monday he said he was told he no longer needs to, though he’s not yet received a written notice that his subpoena is canceled. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100915/housing-fix-or-data-center-loophole-this-ballot-measure-would-overhaul-ceqa\">Could Prop 45 make it easier to build data centers?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Proposition 45 on the November ballot would reform the California Environmental Quality Act, also known as CEQA. 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Billboards and signs of the once flourishing Valley industry have enticed historians for years. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The governor has signed legislation that \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/early-childhood-education-pre-k/death-palmdale-gabriel-fernandez\">strengthens protections for abused children.\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The U.S. Supreme Court has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/surrogate-mckenna-west-texas-california-902a047c6f483cb8e03f759557b3dd21\">declined to step into a custody dispute \u003c/a>involving a California couple and the surrogate who gave birth to their baby in Texas.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-09-16/this-is-the-magical-part-how-historians-are-uncovering-the-mystery-behind-valley-7up-signs\">How historians are uncovering the mystery behind Valley 7UP signs\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It was a bustling afternoon in the heart of downtown Merced, and Kern County historian Mike McCoy craned his neck to stare up at a billboard with faded red paint and neon casings. The billboard is advertising the soda brand 7UP. It features the decades-old slogans “Fresh Up with 7UP” and “It likes you!”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think it’s beautiful,” McCoy said in awe. “See the bubbles? The bubbles would have moved.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>McCoy stopped for lunch at the Mexican restaurant next to the sign while on a road trip. The pitstop was sort of ironic — earlier that week, he tracked down another 7UP sign for the Kern County Museum, which originally stood atop a bottling plant in Bakersfield. “It had this large, 20-foot metal tower, and at the top of that tower was this 10-foot sign that actually rotated at one point,” McCoy said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These are among at least four vintage 7UP signs remaining in the Valley. The other two are located in Fresno. 7UP, the lemon-lime flavored soda produced by Keurig Dr Pepper, is one of the most recognizable drinks in the world. What’s less known is the connection to the San Joaquin Valley that began almost a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For years, the billboards and signs reflecting the once flourishing Valley industry have enticed some local historians, like McCoy. He said they evoke memories for locals, too. “It’s not about the sign. It’s about the business, and it’s about the people that ran that business,” McCoy said. “Sometimes the buildings were torn down, and the sign is the only thing that remains from businesses that are 100 years old.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The origins of most of the 7UP signs in the region remain a mystery — but that doesn’t stop community members from wondering about who put them up or why they’re still around. In Merced, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/333987246803860/posts/2844373292431897/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>conversation\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on Facebook showed many users presumed the sign in the city was owned by Maria’s Mexican Kitchen restaurant next door. KVPR spoke to the restaurant’s manager, Miriam Valenzuela, but she dispelled that rumor and claimed it was owned by the city. But Jennifer Flachman, the city of Merced’s spokesperson, told KVPR in a written response it’s not the city’s property, either, and that the billboard is located on private property. Flachman didn’t reveal who the owner was.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sarah Lim, director at the Merced County Courthouse museum, is another historian looking into 7UP’s local ties. 7UP is almost 100 years old, but she thinks the Merced sign likely came more than a decade later. Lim estimates Merced’s sign was put up in 1941. She never found out the original owner or exact date it was erected, but a hamburger joint with fountain drinks opened nearby around that time. A 7UP distributor also operated just down the street, with another location in Mariposa. “I don’t know if the distributor put the sign up, or if the 7UP company put up the sign, but regardless, it was a great collaboration between the restaurant, the dealer and the 7UP company to promote the 7UP drinks,” Lim said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lim said the number of bubbles on the sign also gave a clue to the timeline. “This is the magical part,” Lim said, laughing. “Counting the bubbles!” 7UP logos originally had seven bubbles, but this billboard and another in Fresno both have eight. The company made this change around 1940, Lim said. These findings are significant, Lim said, but not just for her own curiosity. Lim said signs are a big pinpoint for people, but so is any artifact from a specific time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/early-childhood-education-pre-k/death-palmdale-gabriel-fernandez\">New law aims to hold social workers more accountable, years after death of abused Palmdale child\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill aimed at protecting children who are abused.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>law\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, which went into effect this week, is named “Gabriel’s Law,” after Gabriel Fernandez — an 8-year-old boy in Palmdale who died in 2013 after being tortured and abused by his mother and her boyfriend. “It devastated the community. 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Billboards and signs of the once flourishing Valley industry have enticed historians for years. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The governor has signed legislation that \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/early-childhood-education-pre-k/death-palmdale-gabriel-fernandez\">strengthens protections for abused children.\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The U.S. Supreme Court has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/surrogate-mckenna-west-texas-california-902a047c6f483cb8e03f759557b3dd21\">declined to step into a custody dispute \u003c/a>involving a California couple and the surrogate who gave birth to their baby in Texas.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-09-16/this-is-the-magical-part-how-historians-are-uncovering-the-mystery-behind-valley-7up-signs\">How historians are uncovering the mystery behind Valley 7UP signs\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It was a bustling afternoon in the heart of downtown Merced, and Kern County historian Mike McCoy craned his neck to stare up at a billboard with faded red paint and neon casings. The billboard is advertising the soda brand 7UP. It features the decades-old slogans “Fresh Up with 7UP” and “It likes you!”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think it’s beautiful,” McCoy said in awe. “See the bubbles? The bubbles would have moved.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>McCoy stopped for lunch at the Mexican restaurant next to the sign while on a road trip. The pitstop was sort of ironic — earlier that week, he tracked down another 7UP sign for the Kern County Museum, which originally stood atop a bottling plant in Bakersfield. “It had this large, 20-foot metal tower, and at the top of that tower was this 10-foot sign that actually rotated at one point,” McCoy said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These are among at least four vintage 7UP signs remaining in the Valley. The other two are located in Fresno. 7UP, the lemon-lime flavored soda produced by Keurig Dr Pepper, is one of the most recognizable drinks in the world. What’s less known is the connection to the San Joaquin Valley that began almost a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For years, the billboards and signs reflecting the once flourishing Valley industry have enticed some local historians, like McCoy. He said they evoke memories for locals, too. “It’s not about the sign. It’s about the business, and it’s about the people that ran that business,” McCoy said. “Sometimes the buildings were torn down, and the sign is the only thing that remains from businesses that are 100 years old.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The origins of most of the 7UP signs in the region remain a mystery — but that doesn’t stop community members from wondering about who put them up or why they’re still around. In Merced, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/333987246803860/posts/2844373292431897/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>conversation\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on Facebook showed many users presumed the sign in the city was owned by Maria’s Mexican Kitchen restaurant next door. KVPR spoke to the restaurant’s manager, Miriam Valenzuela, but she dispelled that rumor and claimed it was owned by the city. But Jennifer Flachman, the city of Merced’s spokesperson, told KVPR in a written response it’s not the city’s property, either, and that the billboard is located on private property. Flachman didn’t reveal who the owner was.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sarah Lim, director at the Merced County Courthouse museum, is another historian looking into 7UP’s local ties. 7UP is almost 100 years old, but she thinks the Merced sign likely came more than a decade later. Lim estimates Merced’s sign was put up in 1941. She never found out the original owner or exact date it was erected, but a hamburger joint with fountain drinks opened nearby around that time. A 7UP distributor also operated just down the street, with another location in Mariposa. “I don’t know if the distributor put the sign up, or if the 7UP company put up the sign, but regardless, it was a great collaboration between the restaurant, the dealer and the 7UP company to promote the 7UP drinks,” Lim said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lim said the number of bubbles on the sign also gave a clue to the timeline. “This is the magical part,” Lim said, laughing. “Counting the bubbles!” 7UP logos originally had seven bubbles, but this billboard and another in Fresno both have eight. The company made this change around 1940, Lim said. These findings are significant, Lim said, but not just for her own curiosity. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, September 22, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>With a potentially historic El Niño brewing, Governor Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100741/a-powerful-el-nino-is-brewing-newsom-wants-california-ready-for-the-worst\">declared a state of emergency Monday\u003c/a> ahead of winter storms and high tides that could wreak havoc across the state. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Governor Newsom is signing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100746/newsom-signs-new-restrictions-on-data-center-development\">a package of bills\u003c/a> placing new regulations on data center development. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>It’s less than a month away from when ballots will hit Merced County residents’ mailboxes, and officials are urging voters to drop off their ballot in–person. The county is providing more ballot drop boxes to avoid using mail delivery. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The Trump administration’s current mass deportation push \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100716/historian-draws-parallels-between-trump-and-1920s-immigration-policy\">has echoes of a long-ago immigration campaign\u003c/a>, when roughly a million people were sent to Mexico. That’s according to a historian who spoke at UC Berkeley recently.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100741/a-powerful-el-nino-is-brewing-newsom-wants-california-ready-for-the-worst\">A powerful El Niño is brewing. Newsom wants California ready for the worst\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a potentially historic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097546/el-nino-could-bring-a-wet-wild-winter-how-can-you-and-your-home-be-ready\">El Niño\u003c/a> continues to build, Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/21/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-to-bolster-statewide-el-nino-preparedness-protect-california/\">state of emergency\u003c/a> on Monday ahead of winter storms and high tides that could wreak havoc on the state. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Forecasters predict that much of California could have \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=1\">above-average\u003c/a> precipitation and temperatures this winter. The potential storms could pile on top of El Niño-induced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2001688/strong-el-nino-may-bring-record-sea-level-and-coastal-flooding-to-bay-area\">higher sea levels and record-high king tides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a result, Newsom is directing state agencies to begin preparing vulnerable communities and roads, stage emergency supplies and work in at-risk areas to reduce flooding potential. He has also directed state agencies to fast-track permitting and cut red tape to ready the state for El Niño effects. “We are preparing for this El Niño early because every Californian deserves to be safe in their home, connected to their community, and protected when severe weather comes,” Newsom said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/21/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-to-bolster-statewide-el-nino-preparedness-protect-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>El Niño forms when tropical trade winds weaken or reverse, allowing warm ocean water near Asia to slosh toward the Pacific Coast. That warming can reshape the jet stream and bring stormier weather across California while disrupting the ocean’s nutrient-rich upwelling, heating coastal waters, raising sea levels and stressing marine life. National forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report that the natural climate phenomenon is strengthening, with a greater than 90% chance of a very strong event and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">75% chance of a historic\u003c/a> event this fall and winter. Exactly what the weather will look like this fall and winter is — quite literally — still up in the air. But similar events in past El Niño years have brought torrential downpours, coastal flooding, mudslides, power outages and giant waves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Climate-driven El Niño conditions could mean months of dangerous weather, heavy rain, strong winds, deep mountain snow, flooding, and Californians should understand this clearly,” said Caroline Thomas Jacobs, director of the California Office of Emergency Services. “Storms are among the deadliest disasters we face here in California, and one of the greatest dangers is still people underestimating the power of water.” To prepare for what might happen, the emergency proclamation mobilizes resources in support of the state’s flood-risk-reduction efforts. The California Department of Water Resources has staged 4.4 million sandbags, 400,000 tons of rock, 68 stockpile locations, eight warehouses and 211 flood material containers across the state. State leaders have not yet put a price tag on the flood work. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100746/newsom-signs-new-restrictions-on-data-center-development\">Newsom signs new restrictions on data center development\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/data-centers\">Data center\u003c/a> developments in California will face new hurdles under legislation signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12099195/full-on-backlash-against-data-centers-occurring-as-san-jose-courts-them\">rising concerns\u003c/a> about the facilities at the heart of the nation’s artificial intelligence boom. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The seven bills signed by Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097632/chatbots-data-centers-and-surveillance-5-silicon-valley-bills-land-on-newsoms-desk\">include provisions\u003c/a> aimed at preventing data centers from passing on their electricity costs to other ratepayers and a new requirement for developers to disclose their projected water usage. “With these laws, we are ensuring that Californians remain in the driver’s seat — and that those profiting from data centers aren’t doing so at our expense,” Newsom said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The governor vetoed the water-reporting proposal last year, citing a need to further understand impacts on data center businesses and consumers. Since then, opposition to data centers has intensified; local governments across California are considering bans or moratoriums on the projects, and Newsom has promised his administration would be “leaning in” on regulations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Two bills signed by Newsom, Senate Bill 886 and Assembly Bill 2383, would require the California Public Utilities Commission to create new power rates for data centers to cover the cost of connecting the facilities to the grid and providing them with electricity. “These are some of the nation’s strongest data center ratepayer protections — stopping Big Tech from sticking California families with the bill for their data centers while ensuring all local voices have a say on these projects and they comply with our air, water, and climate standards,” said Sen. Steve Padilla, D-San Diego, who wrote SB 886.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bills passed the Democratic-controlled Senate and Assembly largely on party-line votes, in the face of opposition from business groups such as the Data Center Coalition, whose members include Google and Microsoft. Opponents said the bills would prevent California from capitalizing on economic growth from data center construction. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Merced County calls on voters to drop off ballots \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ballots will soon be mailed out to California voters for November’s mid-term election. In Merced County, officials are urging residents to drop off their ballots in-person, as the county is providing more secure ballot drop boxes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The move comes after changes last year in the US Postal Service delayed mail delivery. Earlier this year, an analysis by KVPR found nearly 3% of returned mail-in ballots from Merced County were late during the special election in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Melvin Levey, the Merced County Registrar of Voters, urged voters to get their ballots directly to a ballot drop box. As a result, Levey said the county is providing more than double the required number of 10 drop boxes. “We want to make sure that we’re giving voters as many options as possible to have a drop box, a secure drop box, directly to Merced County elections close by to them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There will be 21 drop boxes placed throughout the county, and all of them will have increased security measures.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100716/historian-draws-parallels-between-trump-and-1920s-immigration-policy\">\u003cstrong>Historian draws parallels between Trump and 1920s immigration poli\u003c/strong>cy\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It was a campaign of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mass-deportations\">mass deportation\u003c/a>, with immigration authorities engaged in racial profiling and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056762/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-sue-the-trump-administration-to-end-courthouse-arrests\">disregarding the rights\u003c/a> of the people they arrested, many of whom were in the United States legally. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s a charge that’s been leveled at President Donald Trump’s current enforcement efforts, with agents detaining people they perceived as immigrants without legal status on the streets of cities like Los Angeles and Minneapolis, frequently without warrants and referring to them by racial slurs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It also describes a little-known chapter of U.S. history: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002189/over-1-million-were-deported-to-mexico-nearly-100-years-ago-most-of-them-were-u-s-citizens\">“Mexican Repatriation” \u003c/a>that began amid rising xenophobia in the 1920s and gained steam during the Great Depression, said historian Marla Ramírez, who spoke about the parallels at UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies last week. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An estimated 1 million people were sent to Mexico in the period between World War I and World War II, and the majority of them were U.S. citizens, according to Ramírez, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674295940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent book\u003c/a>, “Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation.” “What happened during the interwar period and what’s happening now is that we have this stereotypical image of an immigrant that’s always rooted in who’s white and who’s not white,” she said. “We see U.S. citizens of non-white phenotypes being questioned, being arrested even, because they’ve been imagined to be immigrants, even when they’re U.S. citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Recent lawsuits have alleged — through officer bodycam footage, witnesses and individual testimonies — that agents have denied some people the opportunity to produce proof of legal status during their arrest, speak to an attorney while detained or present their case to an immigration judge before they are deported. The current environment echoes the immigration policing of a century ago, Ramírez said, and it poses a danger not only to immigrants but to society as a whole. “Whenever we are willing to turn a blind eye to the civil rights and constitutional rights of a group, it becomes a dangerous, slippery slope,” she said. “It gives [the government] permission to ignore those same rights for other groups.”\u003c/p>\n",
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The county is providing more ballot drop boxes to avoid using mail delivery. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The Trump administration’s current mass deportation push \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100716/historian-draws-parallels-between-trump-and-1920s-immigration-policy\">has echoes of a long-ago immigration campaign\u003c/a>, when roughly a million people were sent to Mexico. That’s according to a historian who spoke at UC Berkeley recently.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100741/a-powerful-el-nino-is-brewing-newsom-wants-california-ready-for-the-worst\">A powerful El Niño is brewing. Newsom wants California ready for the worst\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a potentially historic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097546/el-nino-could-bring-a-wet-wild-winter-how-can-you-and-your-home-be-ready\">El Niño\u003c/a> continues to build, Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/21/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-to-bolster-statewide-el-nino-preparedness-protect-california/\">state of emergency\u003c/a> on Monday ahead of winter storms and high tides that could wreak havoc on the state. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Forecasters predict that much of California could have \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=1\">above-average\u003c/a> precipitation and temperatures this winter. The potential storms could pile on top of El Niño-induced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2001688/strong-el-nino-may-bring-record-sea-level-and-coastal-flooding-to-bay-area\">higher sea levels and record-high king tides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a result, Newsom is directing state agencies to begin preparing vulnerable communities and roads, stage emergency supplies and work in at-risk areas to reduce flooding potential. He has also directed state agencies to fast-track permitting and cut red tape to ready the state for El Niño effects. “We are preparing for this El Niño early because every Californian deserves to be safe in their home, connected to their community, and protected when severe weather comes,” Newsom said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/21/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-to-bolster-statewide-el-nino-preparedness-protect-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>El Niño forms when tropical trade winds weaken or reverse, allowing warm ocean water near Asia to slosh toward the Pacific Coast. That warming can reshape the jet stream and bring stormier weather across California while disrupting the ocean’s nutrient-rich upwelling, heating coastal waters, raising sea levels and stressing marine life. National forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report that the natural climate phenomenon is strengthening, with a greater than 90% chance of a very strong event and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">75% chance of a historic\u003c/a> event this fall and winter. Exactly what the weather will look like this fall and winter is — quite literally — still up in the air. But similar events in past El Niño years have brought torrential downpours, coastal flooding, mudslides, power outages and giant waves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Climate-driven El Niño conditions could mean months of dangerous weather, heavy rain, strong winds, deep mountain snow, flooding, and Californians should understand this clearly,” said Caroline Thomas Jacobs, director of the California Office of Emergency Services. “Storms are among the deadliest disasters we face here in California, and one of the greatest dangers is still people underestimating the power of water.” To prepare for what might happen, the emergency proclamation mobilizes resources in support of the state’s flood-risk-reduction efforts. The California Department of Water Resources has staged 4.4 million sandbags, 400,000 tons of rock, 68 stockpile locations, eight warehouses and 211 flood material containers across the state. State leaders have not yet put a price tag on the flood work. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100746/newsom-signs-new-restrictions-on-data-center-development\">Newsom signs new restrictions on data center development\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/data-centers\">Data center\u003c/a> developments in California will face new hurdles under legislation signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12099195/full-on-backlash-against-data-centers-occurring-as-san-jose-courts-them\">rising concerns\u003c/a> about the facilities at the heart of the nation’s artificial intelligence boom. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The seven bills signed by Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097632/chatbots-data-centers-and-surveillance-5-silicon-valley-bills-land-on-newsoms-desk\">include provisions\u003c/a> aimed at preventing data centers from passing on their electricity costs to other ratepayers and a new requirement for developers to disclose their projected water usage. “With these laws, we are ensuring that Californians remain in the driver’s seat — and that those profiting from data centers aren’t doing so at our expense,” Newsom said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The governor vetoed the water-reporting proposal last year, citing a need to further understand impacts on data center businesses and consumers. Since then, opposition to data centers has intensified; local governments across California are considering bans or moratoriums on the projects, and Newsom has promised his administration would be “leaning in” on regulations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Two bills signed by Newsom, Senate Bill 886 and Assembly Bill 2383, would require the California Public Utilities Commission to create new power rates for data centers to cover the cost of connecting the facilities to the grid and providing them with electricity. “These are some of the nation’s strongest data center ratepayer protections — stopping Big Tech from sticking California families with the bill for their data centers while ensuring all local voices have a say on these projects and they comply with our air, water, and climate standards,” said Sen. Steve Padilla, D-San Diego, who wrote SB 886.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bills passed the Democratic-controlled Senate and Assembly largely on party-line votes, in the face of opposition from business groups such as the Data Center Coalition, whose members include Google and Microsoft. Opponents said the bills would prevent California from capitalizing on economic growth from data center construction. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Merced County calls on voters to drop off ballots \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ballots will soon be mailed out to California voters for November’s mid-term election. In Merced County, officials are urging residents to drop off their ballots in-person, as the county is providing more secure ballot drop boxes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The move comes after changes last year in the US Postal Service delayed mail delivery. Earlier this year, an analysis by KVPR found nearly 3% of returned mail-in ballots from Merced County were late during the special election in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Melvin Levey, the Merced County Registrar of Voters, urged voters to get their ballots directly to a ballot drop box. As a result, Levey said the county is providing more than double the required number of 10 drop boxes. “We want to make sure that we’re giving voters as many options as possible to have a drop box, a secure drop box, directly to Merced County elections close by to them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There will be 21 drop boxes placed throughout the county, and all of them will have increased security measures.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100716/historian-draws-parallels-between-trump-and-1920s-immigration-policy\">\u003cstrong>Historian draws parallels between Trump and 1920s immigration poli\u003c/strong>cy\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It was a campaign of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mass-deportations\">mass deportation\u003c/a>, with immigration authorities engaged in racial profiling and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056762/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-sue-the-trump-administration-to-end-courthouse-arrests\">disregarding the rights\u003c/a> of the people they arrested, many of whom were in the United States legally. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s a charge that’s been leveled at President Donald Trump’s current enforcement efforts, with agents detaining people they perceived as immigrants without legal status on the streets of cities like Los Angeles and Minneapolis, frequently without warrants and referring to them by racial slurs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It also describes a little-known chapter of U.S. history: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002189/over-1-million-were-deported-to-mexico-nearly-100-years-ago-most-of-them-were-u-s-citizens\">“Mexican Repatriation” \u003c/a>that began amid rising xenophobia in the 1920s and gained steam during the Great Depression, said historian Marla Ramírez, who spoke about the parallels at UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies last week. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An estimated 1 million people were sent to Mexico in the period between World War I and World War II, and the majority of them were U.S. citizens, according to Ramírez, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674295940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent book\u003c/a>, “Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation.” “What happened during the interwar period and what’s happening now is that we have this stereotypical image of an immigrant that’s always rooted in who’s white and who’s not white,” she said. “We see U.S. citizens of non-white phenotypes being questioned, being arrested even, because they’ve been imagined to be immigrants, even when they’re U.S. citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Recent lawsuits have alleged — through officer bodycam footage, witnesses and individual testimonies — that agents have denied some people the opportunity to produce proof of legal status during their arrest, speak to an attorney while detained or present their case to an immigration judge before they are deported. The current environment echoes the immigration policing of a century ago, Ramírez said, and it poses a danger not only to immigrants but to society as a whole. “Whenever we are willing to turn a blind eye to the civil rights and constitutional rights of a group, it becomes a dangerous, slippery slope,” she said. “It gives [the government] permission to ignore those same rights for other groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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