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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> public university cut ties with a federal program that paid for campus police to aid Border Patrol, within weeks of CalMatters revealing the decade-long partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operation Stonegarden, a grant managed by the Department of Homeland Security, allocates an average of $11 million each year for California law enforcement agencies to work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and its subagency Border Patrol on border security missions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of police forces throughout the state receive the grant, including campus police at UC San Diego, a recipient since around 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 10, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2026/02/uc-san-diego-homeland-security-border-patrol/\">CalMatters article\u003c/a> explained how UC San Diego police used the grant to patrol sections of the coastline near campus, which quickly set off an uproar among students who felt it placed undocumented and international students at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Feb. 26, after students emailed complaints and threatened to hold a public rally, student Aryan Dixit said the campus police chief, Lamine Secka, agreed to leave the grant program in a one-on-one meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The heavily fortified U.S.-Mexico border fence ends in the Pacific Ocean between the Playas de Tijuana neighborhood and Border Field State Park in San Diego, Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Melinda Battenberg, a spokesperson at UC San Diego, declined to confirm whether campus police left the grant program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, internal \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZBMvcgRwHqnD-1ywkx0Ta4hOUxDvAYfS/view?usp=sharing\">emails\u003c/a> sent in March from a university vice chancellor, Niraj Dangoria, to Patrick Velasquez, a retired university employee and Chicano education advocacy leader, that were reviewed by CalMatters additionally confirmed that the college intended to cease using the grant and has no plans to reapply in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Lt. Michael Gonzales of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, which manages Stonegarden-funded operations in the San Diego area, told CalMatters the university will not be involved in future grant operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Concern quickly spread\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Daniel Negrete, a fourth-year business economics student at UC San Diego, said he found it “crazy” his campus maintained a working relationship with Border Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the news broke, there was a lot of on-campus concern, he added. Students at a Feb. 18 anti-ICE walkout criticized the university’s relationship with Homeland Security, according to UC San Diego’s student newspaper, \u003ca href=\"https://ucsdguardian.org/2026/02/23/ucsd-students-walk-out-against-ice/#:~:text=Speakers%20at%20the%20walkout%20also%20criticized%20the%20University%E2%80%99s%20collaboration%20with%20immigration%20enforcement.%C2%A0\">The Guardian.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was… shocked that the university was letting this happen,” Negrete said. “There’s no way that at least someone in higher administration wasn’t aware of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074482\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2262729717-scaled-e1773182284895.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1413\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Feb. 20, 2026, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_gpd_homeland-security-grant-program-nofo_fy2025.pdf#page=22\">2025 grant document\u003c/a>, Operation Stonegarden enhances collaboration between federal and local law enforcement to secure borders. The program also promotes information sharing, including through regular \u003ca href=\"https://oceanside.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14852095&GUID=4B35AB5F-D1E2-401E-87DD-97E1895C8257#page=5\">meetings\u003c/a> and mandatory reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its 2006 founding, the grant has raised concerns about privacy and adherence to California’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\">sanctuary law.\u003c/a> The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy advocacy group, asked President Donald Trump to end Stonegarden in a 2025 \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/files/2025/01/30/2025_transition_memo.pdf#page=12\">memo,\u003c/a> adding that surveillance technology companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.pelco.com/blog/operation-stonegarden#how-can-you-use-operation-stonegarden-funds\">encourage police to join the program\u003c/a> to get them to buy their products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Dobbins, a UC San Diego police sergeant and the university’s designated Stonegarden coordinator, told CalMatters in November 2025 that the university used the grant to pay for officers to work overtime on border patrols. He added that the grant was used to promote health and safety.[aside postID=news_12093093 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260729-SJICERALLY-JG-7_qed.jpg']Every year since \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20200501091247/https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1583442273016-07cbcf9445f9fda3cdc5bf8439ec72c9/FY_2020_HSGP_NOFO_FINAL_508ML4.pdf\">2020,\u003c/a> Homeland Security requested grant recipients to prioritize \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/identify-and-arrest/287g\">training officers\u003c/a> as immigration agents, though that is illegal in California under the sanctuary law. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/homeland-security/fy-25-nofo#:~:text=F.%20OPSG,SHSP%20and%20UASI.\">2025\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_gpd_hsgp-nofo-fy2026.pdf#page=24\">2026,\u003c/a> became the grant’s overall emphasis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangoria wrote in a March email to Velasquez that the university’s Stonegarden funds are used “for operations focused on drug and human trafficking and not immigration enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Negrete said he was bothered by a 2025 Office of Inspector General audit that found \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2025-06/OIG-25-26-Jun25.pdf#page=8\">only 15%\u003c/a> of Stonegarden funds are used for drug enforcement and that, according to Homeland Security, drug interdiction is “incidental” to Stonegarden operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The position that this is an innocent program and simply taking drugs off the streets is not true,” Negrete said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Riverside County, most traffic stops carried out for Stonegarden in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/DARs_OPSG_San_Diego_11.1.23-3.14.24.pdf\">2023\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RSO_DARS_2024-03-14_to_2024-10-15-1.pdf\">2024\u003c/a> by county sheriff’s officers resulted in “intel development” even when, as in most cases, no drugs were seized and no crime was committed. The sheriff’s department disclosed activity reports to CalMatters through public record requests, though other police agencies refused to provide the reports, stating that they are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2026/02/uc-san-diego-homeland-security-border-patrol/#:~:text=Multiple%20police%20departments%20told%20CalMatters%20that%2C%20though%20they%20still%20have%20access%20to%20see%20the%20reports%2C%20they%20cannot%20provide%20them%20through%20public%20record%20requests%2C%20as%20the%20reports%20become%20federal%20property%20once%20entered%20into%20the%20Homeland%20Security%20Information%20Network.\">federal property.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Battenberg said UC San Diego police can view but not access reports once they are submitted to Homeland Security, and did not answer whether UC San Diego could disclose its reports through record requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Campus advocacy response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 17, Dixit contacted Secka, the campus police chief, by email, requesting to schedule a meeting regarding “critical student concerns” about campus police utilizing Homeland Security grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Dixit, an economics and cognitive science student, served in student government as the 2025-26 associate vice president of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and was the president of the \u003ca href=\"https://sclusd.org/\">Students’ Civil Liberties Union,\u003c/a> a nonprofit organization encouraging youth advocacy. Dixit copied Assistant Chief Frank Johnson and the police department’s general administrative contact on the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixit received no response, he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12093513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12093513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1-2000x1334.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC San Diego Police Department building at UC San Diego on Feb. 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 24, the Students’ Civil Liberties Union teamed up with the \u003ca href=\"https://elliscollective.org/\">Ellis Collective,\u003c/a> a research group directed by Negrete, and announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DVK2UXTlHNU/\">rally\u003c/a> scheduled for Feb. 26 to protest campus police getting money from the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the announcement, Dixit said, Secka agreed to meet with him for a one-on-one discussion a day before the protest. The two debated various issues to find places of compromise, and Secka told Dixit that the UC San Diego Police Department would halt participation in Stonegarden and not re-apply for it the next year, Dixit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secka did not respond to repeated interview requests from CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://ucsdguardian.org/2026/03/02/students-rally-against-ucsdpds-participation-in-dhs-program/\">Feb. 26,\u003c/a> about 100 students attended the demonstration, and speakers condemned the university’s long-standing practice of working with federal immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego State University police received \u003ca href=\"http://cams.ocgov.com/Web_Publisher_Sam/Agenda09_30_2014_files/images/O00214-001398A.PDF\">2013 Stonegarden funding\u003c/a> while Secka was the \u003ca href=\"http://cams.ocgov.com/Web_Publisher_Sam/Agenda09_30_2014_files/images/O00214-001398A.PDF#page=13\">interim police chief there.\u003c/a> That university is not listed in any available funding documents more recent than that. Amanda Stills, a public information officer for San Diego State’s police department, said the funds supported drug interdiction efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Statewide funding increases\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Other agencies continue to collaborate with Homeland Security, which increased California’s Stonegarden allotment from\u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_gpd_homeland-security-grant-program-nofo_fy2025.pdf#page=57\"> $12.1 million\u003c/a> in 2025 to $13.4 million for 2026, per a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_gpd_hsgp-nofo-fy2026_0.pdf#page=75\">grant document.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 2025, sheriff’s departments from 11 counties receive funding, including Riverside, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Monterey, San Mateo, San Bernardino and Imperial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of smaller police agencies have joined in as well, alongside \u003ca href=\"https://oceanside.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14852095&GUID=4B35AB5F-D1E2-401E-87DD-97E1895C8257\">state agencies\u003c/a> like the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Department of Parks and Recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080718\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/032026-Chad-Bianco-GETTY-CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/032026-Chad-Bianco-GETTY-CM.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/032026-Chad-Bianco-GETTY-CM-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco speaks during a news conference on March 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anjali Sharif-Paul/The Sun via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Fiscal Year 2024, the Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force — known as L.A. IMPACT — \u003ca href=\"https://costamesa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14826607&GUID=E6601C50-2002-4E62-9EC1-D1612E35D48B\">joined Stonegarden.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force investigates major crimes, especially involving narcotics, and possesses some of the state’s most extensive surveillance resources, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/bi/laimpact\">Attorney General’s office.\u003c/a> It’s comprised of about 75 sworn officers from 48 local and state police agencies, a full list of which has not been made public previously.\u003cnoscript>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/VvuqN/full.png\" alt=\"What agencies contribute to L.A. IMPACT? (Table)\">\u003c/noscript>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Burke, L.A. IMPACT’s executive director, told CalMatters that the task force’s Stonegarden activities are limited to drug trafficking investigations in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community weighed in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego police had not released any public statements about the grant by March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So on March 2, a local coalition of educators called the \u003ca href=\"https://sdclchighered.org/\">San Diego Chicano/Latino Concilio on Higher Education,\u003c/a> which advocates for Latino student success, pressed UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla directly in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velasquez, the coalition’s co-chair, argued that Stonegarden distracts police from campus safety and promotes surveillance by authorizing purchases of \u003ca href=\"http://cams.ocgov.com/Web_Publisher_SAM/Agenda11_17_2020_files/images/O00220-000903A.PDF#page=49\">search cameras\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://media.rivcocob.org/proceeds/2023/p2023_07_18_files/03.25001.pdf#page=37\">data-collecting devices.\u003c/a> He also noted that Dobbins told CalMatters campus officers do not enforce immigration law, but use the patrols to search for migrants that cross the border on panga boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12093526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12093526\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-661610888.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-661610888.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-661610888-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-661610888-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University Of California, San Diego, Geisel Library, in La Jolla, California. \u003ccite>(Education Images/Citizens of the Planet/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also unsettling, Velasquez told the chancellor, is that civilians cannot obtain information about Stonegarden from local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Velasquez argued, since a 2025 \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c3MTTKkTeI_vXtHLPiQPUZ4FkJLyY47O/view?usp=sharing\">grant document\u003c/a> from Imperial County encourages police to apprehend all “criminal aliens” suspected of violating immigration law, Latino students might be targeted on the basis of their appearance or language spoken. The coalition demanded the university leave the program, Velasquez wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangoria, the vice chancellor, confirmed in a March 4 emailed response to Velasquez, reviewed by CalMatters, that university police would not reapply for the grant, also stating that campus police have followed a decade-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/default/files/Statement-of-Principles-in-Support-of-Undocumented-Members-of-UC.pdf\">UC policy\u003c/a> barring campus police from working with ICE or detaining people based on suspected undocumented immigration status.[aside postID=news_12092703 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/072826-PALESTINEACTIVISTMEMORIAL-15-MC-KQED_1.jpg']In the 2025 interview, Dobbins told CalMatters that UC San Diego had participated in Operation Stonegarden every year since about 2012. Dangoria stated in her email that university police have not participated in Stonegarden activities since 2024, which the university’s Communications team affirmed. \u003ca href=\"https://oceanside.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14852095&GUID=4B35AB5F-D1E2-401E-87DD-97E1895C8257#page=2\">The 2024 funding agreement\u003c/a> states operations would last from April 2025 to February 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangoria wrote in another message to Velasquez on March 11 that the police department might apply for other Homeland Security grants not related to immigration enforcement, “as DHS oversees many federal agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Stonegarden is \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/homeland-security\">run by FEMA.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to reiterate that UC San Diego is deeply committed to cultivating and maintaining a campus environment that is safe and welcoming for all members of our community, regardless of immigration status,” Dangoria wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Phoebe Huss is a contributor with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2026/07/uc-san-diego-homeland-security-border-patrol-students-protest/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Every year since \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20200501091247/https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1583442273016-07cbcf9445f9fda3cdc5bf8439ec72c9/FY_2020_HSGP_NOFO_FINAL_508ML4.pdf\">2020,\u003c/a> Homeland Security requested grant recipients to prioritize \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/identify-and-arrest/287g\">training officers\u003c/a> as immigration agents, though that is illegal in California under the sanctuary law. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/homeland-security/fy-25-nofo#:~:text=F.%20OPSG,SHSP%20and%20UASI.\">2025\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_gpd_hsgp-nofo-fy2026.pdf#page=24\">2026,\u003c/a> became the grant’s overall emphasis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangoria wrote in a March email to Velasquez that the university’s Stonegarden funds are used “for operations focused on drug and human trafficking and not immigration enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Negrete said he was bothered by a 2025 Office of Inspector General audit that found \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2025-06/OIG-25-26-Jun25.pdf#page=8\">only 15%\u003c/a> of Stonegarden funds are used for drug enforcement and that, according to Homeland Security, drug interdiction is “incidental” to Stonegarden operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The position that this is an innocent program and simply taking drugs off the streets is not true,” Negrete said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Riverside County, most traffic stops carried out for Stonegarden in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/DARs_OPSG_San_Diego_11.1.23-3.14.24.pdf\">2023\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RSO_DARS_2024-03-14_to_2024-10-15-1.pdf\">2024\u003c/a> by county sheriff’s officers resulted in “intel development” even when, as in most cases, no drugs were seized and no crime was committed. The sheriff’s department disclosed activity reports to CalMatters through public record requests, though other police agencies refused to provide the reports, stating that they are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2026/02/uc-san-diego-homeland-security-border-patrol/#:~:text=Multiple%20police%20departments%20told%20CalMatters%20that%2C%20though%20they%20still%20have%20access%20to%20see%20the%20reports%2C%20they%20cannot%20provide%20them%20through%20public%20record%20requests%2C%20as%20the%20reports%20become%20federal%20property%20once%20entered%20into%20the%20Homeland%20Security%20Information%20Network.\">federal property.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Battenberg said UC San Diego police can view but not access reports once they are submitted to Homeland Security, and did not answer whether UC San Diego could disclose its reports through record requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Campus advocacy response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 17, Dixit contacted Secka, the campus police chief, by email, requesting to schedule a meeting regarding “critical student concerns” about campus police utilizing Homeland Security grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Dixit, an economics and cognitive science student, served in student government as the 2025-26 associate vice president of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and was the president of the \u003ca href=\"https://sclusd.org/\">Students’ Civil Liberties Union,\u003c/a> a nonprofit organization encouraging youth advocacy. Dixit copied Assistant Chief Frank Johnson and the police department’s general administrative contact on the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixit received no response, he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12093513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12093513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1-2000x1334.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/020426_UCSD-Police_AH_CM_06-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC San Diego Police Department building at UC San Diego on Feb. 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 24, the Students’ Civil Liberties Union teamed up with the \u003ca href=\"https://elliscollective.org/\">Ellis Collective,\u003c/a> a research group directed by Negrete, and announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DVK2UXTlHNU/\">rally\u003c/a> scheduled for Feb. 26 to protest campus police getting money from the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the announcement, Dixit said, Secka agreed to meet with him for a one-on-one discussion a day before the protest. The two debated various issues to find places of compromise, and Secka told Dixit that the UC San Diego Police Department would halt participation in Stonegarden and not re-apply for it the next year, Dixit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secka did not respond to repeated interview requests from CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://ucsdguardian.org/2026/03/02/students-rally-against-ucsdpds-participation-in-dhs-program/\">Feb. 26,\u003c/a> about 100 students attended the demonstration, and speakers condemned the university’s long-standing practice of working with federal immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego State University police received \u003ca href=\"http://cams.ocgov.com/Web_Publisher_Sam/Agenda09_30_2014_files/images/O00214-001398A.PDF\">2013 Stonegarden funding\u003c/a> while Secka was the \u003ca href=\"http://cams.ocgov.com/Web_Publisher_Sam/Agenda09_30_2014_files/images/O00214-001398A.PDF#page=13\">interim police chief there.\u003c/a> That university is not listed in any available funding documents more recent than that. Amanda Stills, a public information officer for San Diego State’s police department, said the funds supported drug interdiction efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Statewide funding increases\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Other agencies continue to collaborate with Homeland Security, which increased California’s Stonegarden allotment from\u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_gpd_homeland-security-grant-program-nofo_fy2025.pdf#page=57\"> $12.1 million\u003c/a> in 2025 to $13.4 million for 2026, per a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_gpd_hsgp-nofo-fy2026_0.pdf#page=75\">grant document.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 2025, sheriff’s departments from 11 counties receive funding, including Riverside, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Monterey, San Mateo, San Bernardino and Imperial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of smaller police agencies have joined in as well, alongside \u003ca href=\"https://oceanside.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14852095&GUID=4B35AB5F-D1E2-401E-87DD-97E1895C8257\">state agencies\u003c/a> like the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Department of Parks and Recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080718\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/032026-Chad-Bianco-GETTY-CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/032026-Chad-Bianco-GETTY-CM.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/032026-Chad-Bianco-GETTY-CM-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco speaks during a news conference on March 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anjali Sharif-Paul/The Sun via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Fiscal Year 2024, the Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force — known as L.A. IMPACT — \u003ca href=\"https://costamesa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14826607&GUID=E6601C50-2002-4E62-9EC1-D1612E35D48B\">joined Stonegarden.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force investigates major crimes, especially involving narcotics, and possesses some of the state’s most extensive surveillance resources, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/bi/laimpact\">Attorney General’s office.\u003c/a> It’s comprised of about 75 sworn officers from 48 local and state police agencies, a full list of which has not been made public previously.\u003cnoscript>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/VvuqN/full.png\" alt=\"What agencies contribute to L.A. IMPACT? (Table)\">\u003c/noscript>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Burke, L.A. IMPACT’s executive director, told CalMatters that the task force’s Stonegarden activities are limited to drug trafficking investigations in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community weighed in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego police had not released any public statements about the grant by March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So on March 2, a local coalition of educators called the \u003ca href=\"https://sdclchighered.org/\">San Diego Chicano/Latino Concilio on Higher Education,\u003c/a> which advocates for Latino student success, pressed UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla directly in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velasquez, the coalition’s co-chair, argued that Stonegarden distracts police from campus safety and promotes surveillance by authorizing purchases of \u003ca href=\"http://cams.ocgov.com/Web_Publisher_SAM/Agenda11_17_2020_files/images/O00220-000903A.PDF#page=49\">search cameras\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://media.rivcocob.org/proceeds/2023/p2023_07_18_files/03.25001.pdf#page=37\">data-collecting devices.\u003c/a> He also noted that Dobbins told CalMatters campus officers do not enforce immigration law, but use the patrols to search for migrants that cross the border on panga boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12093526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12093526\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-661610888.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-661610888.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-661610888-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-661610888-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University Of California, San Diego, Geisel Library, in La Jolla, California. \u003ccite>(Education Images/Citizens of the Planet/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also unsettling, Velasquez told the chancellor, is that civilians cannot obtain information about Stonegarden from local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Velasquez argued, since a 2025 \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c3MTTKkTeI_vXtHLPiQPUZ4FkJLyY47O/view?usp=sharing\">grant document\u003c/a> from Imperial County encourages police to apprehend all “criminal aliens” suspected of violating immigration law, Latino students might be targeted on the basis of their appearance or language spoken. The coalition demanded the university leave the program, Velasquez wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangoria, the vice chancellor, confirmed in a March 4 emailed response to Velasquez, reviewed by CalMatters, that university police would not reapply for the grant, also stating that campus police have followed a decade-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/default/files/Statement-of-Principles-in-Support-of-Undocumented-Members-of-UC.pdf\">UC policy\u003c/a> barring campus police from working with ICE or detaining people based on suspected undocumented immigration status.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the 2025 interview, Dobbins told CalMatters that UC San Diego had participated in Operation Stonegarden every year since about 2012. Dangoria stated in her email that university police have not participated in Stonegarden activities since 2024, which the university’s Communications team affirmed. \u003ca href=\"https://oceanside.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14852095&GUID=4B35AB5F-D1E2-401E-87DD-97E1895C8257#page=2\">The 2024 funding agreement\u003c/a> states operations would last from April 2025 to February 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangoria wrote in another message to Velasquez on March 11 that the police department might apply for other Homeland Security grants not related to immigration enforcement, “as DHS oversees many federal agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Stonegarden is \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/homeland-security\">run by FEMA.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to reiterate that UC San Diego is deeply committed to cultivating and maintaining a campus environment that is safe and welcoming for all members of our community, regardless of immigration status,” Dangoria wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Phoebe Huss is a contributor with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2026/07/uc-san-diego-homeland-security-border-patrol-students-protest/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, June 4, 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco drone delivery company Zipline hopes to one day fly your burrito — and other consumer goods — right to your front porch. It’s already doing so in Dallas and elsewhere across the country. But before it can expand, Zipline’s drones are flying thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/05/19/delivering-the-future-zipline-tests-drones-high-above-historic-yolo-county-cattle-ranch/\">test missions above a serene Yolo County cattle ranch\u003c/a> near Esparto. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Diego is exploring \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/06/03/nx-s1-5810173/why-one-of-the-cities-most-dependent-on-the-colorado-river-now-has-water-for-sale\">selling its Colorado River water\u003c/a> to other states that need it. Desalinated seawater is making it possible. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voters in Shasta County appear to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/elections/2026-06-03/shasta-county-election-results-francescut-winning-county-clerk-moderate-supervisor-candidates-leading\">rejecting a controversial county clerk\u003c/a> who’s been trying to implement major reforms to the elections system there.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"page-title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/05/19/delivering-the-future-zipline-tests-drones-high-above-historic-yolo-county-cattle-ranch/\">\u003cstrong>Delivering the future: Zipline tests drones high above historic Yolo County ranch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bay Area drone delivery company Zipline hopes to one day fly your burrito — and all kinds of consumer goods — right to your front porch. It’s already doing so in Dallas and elsewhere across the country. But before it can expand, Zipline’s aircraft are flying thousands of test missions above a vast Yolo County ranch near Esparto, where the Stone family has run cattle for half a century and the drones aren’t the only innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent tour of the Yolo Land & Cattle Company, co-owner Casey Stone stops to gaze at Zipline’s test site. He calls it “the space center,” a hub of activity almost hidden by the ranch’s fog-cloaked foothills about 40 miles west of Sacramento. Dozens of white drones with flashing green and red lights take to the sky. They’re hovering over the middle of his 7,500-acre property. Two-story tall drone docking towers wait for their return. Zipline engineers monitor their flight from the ground below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone describes the scene this way: “My analogy is when you see ‘Close Encounters [of the Third Kind]’, where they’re climbing around the mountain and they see the extraterrestrial space station there — that’s kind of what it is.” They might look surreal, but Zipline’s drones aren’t something out of a movie. Instead, they’re on the cutting-edge of consumer goods transportation. The company, based in South San Francisco, is in competition with tech behemoths like \u003ca href=\"https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/oakland-county/an-inside-look-at-amazons-prime-air-drone-delivery-center-in-pontiac\">Amazon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/alphabet-wing-drone-delivery-22091853.php\">Google\u003c/a> to dominate the future of air deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Yolo County, Zipline’s drones operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, flying hundreds of feet above the Stone family’s green pastures and rolling hills east of Lake Berryessa. Zipline’s Mike Rigby is in charge of the drone testing. His company believes its technology will be a game changer — one that takes millions of delivery cars and trucks off the road and replaces them with faster, cleaner electric-powered aircraft. “As our CEO famously likes to say, ‘You don’t need a 4,000 pound vehicle to chauffeur your burrito to yah,’” Rigby says. “We can do that a lot more economically and efficiently through this aircraft.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zipline drones carry up to eight pounds of goods. The company can fit everything from medicine to groceries to gardening supplies inside the six-foot-long aircraft. But rather than touching down outside your home or office, the drones themselves stay high above. Rigby, as if he’s reading from a sci-fi script, explains what happens next: “And then the zip has a small little droid unit that comes out of the belly of the aircraft on a tether. It has its own propulsion system, as well. So, it’s kind of a sub-aircraft.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Zipline perfects its deliveries across the country, the Stone ranch will be home to even more aircraft. The Yolo County planning commission last fall \u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/inno/stories/news/2025/10/09/zipline-expanded-drone-testing-yolo-county.html\">gave the green light\u003c/a> for expanded testing on the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/06/03/nx-s1-5810173/why-one-of-the-cities-most-dependent-on-the-colorado-river-now-has-water-for-sale\">\u003cstrong>Why one of the cities most dependent on the Colorado River now has water for sale\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even as California is offering to take less water from the drought-shrunken Colorado River, one of the state’s biggest cities that’s long been the most dependent on it curiously now has excess water to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a good year, San Diego gets barely 8 inches of rain. And not too long ago, the picturesque coastal city was staring down major water supply shortages. It’s notoriously at the end of the line of the Colorado River “straw,” a good three-hour drive from the shrinking river itself. But today, thanks in part to aggressive water recycling and urban and agricultural conservation programs and a big bet made on salt water, San Diego has a surplus and other thirsty nearby cities and states are eager to tap it. “I don’t think we can save the Colorado River, but what we’re looking to do is show that there is an opportunity to manage the system in a new way,” says Meena Westford, director of imported water at the San Diego County Water Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Carlsbad State Beach north of the city, roughly 100 million gallons of seawater gets pumped through gravel and sand and treated via reverse osmosis at the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant. About 50 million gallons a day turns into potable water. Since it came online at the site of a former coal-fired power plant in late 2015, the facility produces about 7-10% of the region’s water. Right now anyway, despite the western megadrought, they don’t need it locally. “We’re the only agency that is bringing new water into the system. This is not horse trading Colorado River water. This is really introducing and augmenting the system with new water,” Westford says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one is talking about building a pipeline from here to Arizona or trucking the extra desalinated water to Las Vegas. Westford says to think of it more like a transfer on paper. If approved by the Department of the Interior, the authority would exchange its existing Colorado River supplies stored in Lake Mead for desalinated water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But desalinated water is energy intensive and extremely expensive to make. Water from the San Diego plant is estimated to cost upwards of five to 10 times more than river water. And environmentalists like Patrick McDonough warn that building more desal plants up and down the California coast isn’t the panacea for the Colorado River crisis. \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>The water produced by this massive, biggest in the Western Hemisphere desalination plant is a drop in the swimming pool compared to the entire Colorado River basin supplies issue,” says McDonough, a senior attorney with San Diego Coastkeeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people are willing to pay for it no matter the price. It’s so scary dry in the Southwest right now. It’s also been years since anyone developed new supplies. Southern Nevada Water Authority general manager John Entsminger says Las Vegas doesn’t need the water this year. “But that does not mean I’m not willing to invest in a project and a process that leaves water in Lake Mead for the greater benefit of the entire system,” Entsminger told NPR. Lake Mead and Lake Powell, reservoirs on the Colorado that are the nation’s two largest, are so low they may no longer be able to produce hydropower. Federal forecasts predict the water could get so low at the Hoover Dam that the turbines would shut down, the dreaded deadpool. The Rocky Mountains are coming off their hottest and driest winter on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/elections/2026-06-03/shasta-county-election-results-francescut-winning-county-clerk-moderate-supervisor-candidates-leading\">\u003cstrong>Controversial Shasta County clerk trailing in re-election bid\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"ArtP-subheadline\">Joanna Francescut is leading the race for Shasta County Clerk, according to preliminary results Wednesday morning. The closely watched race has become a referendum on how elections should be run in Shasta County. 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CIF reinstituted a pilot policy launched ahead of the competition that allows an additional girl to compete and medal in any event that includes a transgender athlete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When are you going to stand up and say no? … Fix it at the ballot box,” Shaw continued, standing alongside Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw told KQED on Wednesday that her victory sends a clear message: “Parents and people all throughout California have had enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Barrera, who’s been endorsed by the California Teachers Association and Thurmond, is likely to pick up most of the votes from a slew of Democratic opponents. He currently sits comfortably ahead of the pack with 18.9% of the votes.[aside label=\"Live 2026 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/governor,Learn about the results of the California Governor Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2026/04/Aside-California-Governor-2026-Primary-Election-1200x1200@2x.png]Barrera has been a school board member in San Diego since 2008 and served as board president during San Diego Unified’s rise as one of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegounified.org/about/newscenter/all_news/2024NAEP\"> top-performing urban districts\u003c/a> in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett Snider, an education lobbyist with Capitol Advisors, said he expects the school board president to pick up supporters from educator Wendy Castaneda Leal, Los Angeles Community College District board member Nichelle Henderson and multiple statewide lawmakers, who garnered between 8% and 10% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Shaw] got the most because she was really the only prominent conservative running in that race. And then you had just a large bench of sort of blue candidates,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snider said that CTA has a long track record of successfully ushering candidates into the state superintendent’s seat. He expects that now that Barrera is presumed to advance to the general election, the union will ramp up opposition to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to move the Department of Education under his control — changing the nature of the superintendent role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Newsom’s 2026-27 budget, which suggested overhauling California’s education governance system, the state superintendent would mostly serve as an independent advocate for the state’s public education system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrera called the plan to move the Department of Education under the governor’s office “undemocratic.” The state Senate rejected Newsom’s proposal in their version of the budget, and the Assembly has proposed handling the potential restructuring through different legislation. Newsom terms out this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12086202 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego Unified Board Member Richard Barrera speaks during a press conference to announce a bill that adds COVID-19 vaccines to California’s list of required inoculations for attending K-12 schools at Arleta High School on Jan. 24, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arne Johnson, an advocate with the Bay Area-based transgender rights group Rainbow Family Action, said he wasn’t surprised to see Shaw advance to the general election, but worries that she’ll continue to have a platform for “stunts” and “politically motivated heat” toward transgender children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’ll get trounced in the general election,” he said. “It’s just more funding and more time for her to cause damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrera said he respects that Shaw — as a school board president — brings a local perspective to the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I don’t respect is that she chooses to use her platform and influence to divide her community, and to single out groups of students,” he said. “It’s two very different visions of what California public schools can be. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california\">amassed 24.8% of votes\u003c/a> in early reporting on Wednesday, rose to notoriety in 2023 after she ousted the current superintendent, Tony Thurmond, from a school board meeting in the Inland Empire. Thurmond said \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TonyThurmond/status/1682240216491520000\">on social media\u003c/a> that students had invited him to speak in opposition to a proposed policy that would force schools to inform parents if their child identified as transgender, mirroring failed statewide legislation, before the Chino Valley School Board heckled and forcibly removed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw and Barrera were among 10 candidates in the race for the job of overseeing the state’s 10,000 public schools as they grapple with funding cuts, higher costs and the challenges of AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw has built her campaign around the culture war issue of transgender rights in schools — particularly opposing transgender girls’ participation on athletic teams that match their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12086065 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Sonja-Shaw-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Sonja-Shaw-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Sonja-Shaw-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Sonja-Shaw-Getty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, left, and California state superintendent candidate Sonja Shaw are seen during a news conference and protest against the participation of a transgender athlete in the 106th California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Track & Field Championships outside Veterans Memorial Stadium in Clovis, California, on May 29, 2026. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Your daughters are in locker rooms with boys all across California,” she \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/realSonjaShaw/status/2060535081199174039\">said\u003c/a> at a press conference days before the election at the California Interscholastic Federation’s Track and Field championships, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084083/california-quietly-brings-back-controversial-scoring-policy-for-trans-student-athletes\">transgender athlete AB Hernandez\u003c/a> won two state titles. CIF reinstituted a pilot policy launched ahead of the competition that allows an additional girl to compete and medal in any event that includes a transgender athlete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When are you going to stand up and say no? … Fix it at the ballot box,” Shaw continued, standing alongside Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw told KQED on Wednesday that her victory sends a clear message: “Parents and people all throughout California have had enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Barrera, who’s been endorsed by the California Teachers Association and Thurmond, is likely to pick up most of the votes from a slew of Democratic opponents. He currently sits comfortably ahead of the pack with 18.9% of the votes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Barrera has been a school board member in San Diego since 2008 and served as board president during San Diego Unified’s rise as one of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegounified.org/about/newscenter/all_news/2024NAEP\"> top-performing urban districts\u003c/a> in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett Snider, an education lobbyist with Capitol Advisors, said he expects the school board president to pick up supporters from educator Wendy Castaneda Leal, Los Angeles Community College District board member Nichelle Henderson and multiple statewide lawmakers, who garnered between 8% and 10% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Shaw] got the most because she was really the only prominent conservative running in that race. And then you had just a large bench of sort of blue candidates,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snider said that CTA has a long track record of successfully ushering candidates into the state superintendent’s seat. He expects that now that Barrera is presumed to advance to the general election, the union will ramp up opposition to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to move the Department of Education under his control — changing the nature of the superintendent role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Newsom’s 2026-27 budget, which suggested overhauling California’s education governance system, the state superintendent would mostly serve as an independent advocate for the state’s public education system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrera called the plan to move the Department of Education under the governor’s office “undemocratic.” The state Senate rejected Newsom’s proposal in their version of the budget, and the Assembly has proposed handling the potential restructuring through different legislation. Newsom terms out this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12086202 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego Unified Board Member Richard Barrera speaks during a press conference to announce a bill that adds COVID-19 vaccines to California’s list of required inoculations for attending K-12 schools at Arleta High School on Jan. 24, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arne Johnson, an advocate with the Bay Area-based transgender rights group Rainbow Family Action, said he wasn’t surprised to see Shaw advance to the general election, but worries that she’ll continue to have a platform for “stunts” and “politically motivated heat” toward transgender children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’ll get trounced in the general election,” he said. “It’s just more funding and more time for her to cause damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrera said he respects that Shaw — as a school board president — brings a local perspective to the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I don’t respect is that she chooses to use her platform and influence to divide her community, and to single out groups of students,” he said. “It’s two very different visions of what California public schools can be. And I’m confident that in the general election, Californians are going to side with a positive unifying vision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The goal is to help blunt rising insurance costs. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A California attorney who aided President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election can \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/john-eastman-trump-2020-election-loss-disbarred-abf3b3ab8f83a692992615c59db73c92\">no longer practice law\u003c/a> in the state. John Eastman was disbarred by the California Supreme Court on Wednesday.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2026/04/14/deportation-flights-from-san-diego-have-spiked-since-trump-took-office\">\u003cstrong>Deportation flights from San Diego have spiked since Trump took office\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has turned San Diego into a deportation hub by using military and civilian airports for flights, according to data from a nonprofit tracking flights throughout the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Human Rights First documented nearly 120 deportation flights out of San Diego International Airport and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar last year. That’s a massive increase from 2024, when there was not a single deportation flight out of San Diego. “The scale has just dramatically picked up from the past year,” said Savi Avery, who leads the nonprofit’s refugee and immigrant rights research program and runs the (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://humanrightsfirst.org/ice-flight-monitor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>ICE Flight Monitor program.\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, San Diego has not been a deportation flight hub. Deportations typically involved federal agents walking Mexican nationals to the south side of the border. Deportees from other countries have historically been flown to other U.S. cities and deported from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE outsources most of the flights to private carriers. In San Diego, most are handled by Global X and Eastern Air Express. ICE began using San Diego International Airport for deportation flights in April 2025, according to the data from Human Rights First. Deportation flights out of MCAS Miramar began in July. Avery said this is an example of the Trump administration using the country’s military infrastructure to advance his mass deportation campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, MCAS Miramar confirmed that its airport acts as a location for civilian, military and federal flights, but did not provide any other specifics regarding the ICE flights. It’s not unusual for other government agencies and contractors to use the air station. Air Force One, the U.S. presidential plane, has landed at Miramar several times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Human Rights First began tracking ICE flights in July 2025. Previously, the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/tomcartwright.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>work was done by Tom Cartwright\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, a retired JP Morgan executive from Ohio. Avery said their tracking data is useful to lawyers and relatives of people detained by ICE. “We definitely get outreach from lawyers who might be concerned that the administration has flown someone in violation of a court order and need to stop a flight from taking off,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hearing held on bill to hold fossil fuel companies responsible for climate-related disasters\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State Senator Scott Weiner and fire survivors are \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wiener-introduces-landmark-legislation-lower-home-insurance-costs-californians\">pushing for a bill\u003c/a> that would allow the state attorney general to seek damages from oil companies for their role in causing climate-disasters like fires and floods. The goal is to help blunt rising insurance costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the cost of home insurance shooting through the roof and more and more families getting rejected by private insurers, we have to do everything we can to stabilize the market and boost affordability,” said Senator Wiener. “The Affordable Insurance and Recovery Act takes an innovative approach to this problem by shifting the cost of wildfires and other climate-driven disasters from the survivors who are suffering to the fossil fuel giants most responsible. No one should be be pushed out of their home by insurance costs, and the AIR Act will take an important step to ensuring they won’t be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gayle Ali and her husband Rasheed are 30-year residents of Altadena. They were celebrating their wedding anniversary when the Eaton Fire destroyed their house. She said she’s learned since the fire that industry leaders knew in the 80s their products would cause catastrophes, like the fire that wiped out the family’s home, photos, music studio. “We’re really hurting. To the oil corporations, we could use your help. We support SB 982 because it simply asks oil corporations to also pay their fair share,” she said during a recent hearing in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 982 is a streamlined version of a bill that did not pass last year. That would have allowed citizens to sue fossil fuel companies directly. This version allows only the state attorney general to seek damages. Opponents say the bill would raise gas prices and kill jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"Page-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/john-eastman-trump-2020-election-loss-disbarred-abf3b3ab8f83a692992615c59db73c92\">\u003cstrong>California attorney who tried to help overturn 2020 election loses law license\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A California attorney who aided President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results has lost his license to practice in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered John Eastman disbarred and his name stricken from the state roll of attorneys. It caps a yearslong effort by the state bar to strip Eastman of his law license after he developed a legal strategy to have then-Vice President Mike Pence interfere with the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge for the State Bar Court of California in 2024 recommended that he lose his California \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-john-eastman-607f457a20ac9ed11daa546f01aa6c8d\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">law license\u003c/a>\u003c/span>. Eastman argued he was being punished for simply giving legal advice. 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He wrote a memo laying out a plan for Pence to reject legitimate electoral votes for Biden while presiding over the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6 in order to keep Trump in the White House.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The goal is to help blunt rising insurance costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the cost of home insurance shooting through the roof and more and more families getting rejected by private insurers, we have to do everything we can to stabilize the market and boost affordability,” said Senator Wiener. “The Affordable Insurance and Recovery Act takes an innovative approach to this problem by shifting the cost of wildfires and other climate-driven disasters from the survivors who are suffering to the fossil fuel giants most responsible. No one should be be pushed out of their home by insurance costs, and the AIR Act will take an important step to ensuring they won’t be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gayle Ali and her husband Rasheed are 30-year residents of Altadena. They were celebrating their wedding anniversary when the Eaton Fire destroyed their house. 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This year, she is chairing the newly established Select Committee on Housing and Construction Innovation.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Immigration arrests in and around San Diego \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/01/san-diego-immigration-arrest-surge/\">surged nearly 1500% in 2025.\u003c/a> And many of the people who’ve been arrested have no history of criminal convictions.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-fires-california-home-cleaning-contamination-bill-harabedian\">want to set new standards\u003c/a> for cleaning homes after toxic fires.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Lawmaker Leads Effort To Build More Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers passed a handful of bills in 2025 aimed at cutting some of the red tape when it comes to building new homes. But will it actually lead to more building?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Assemblymember Buffy Wicks chairs the newly established Select Committee on Housing and Construction Innovation, which has already held two meetings this month. “What we’re looking at is how do we bring down the cost of construction? Homes in California are just a lot more expensive to build,” Wicks said. “So one of the things we’re really looking at is what are the newer innovative models of construction that we can really hope to spur and to create here in California to bring down the cost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks said that prefab and modular housing, which many cities and countries use around the world, definitely need to be explored. “In the fall, I went to Sweden and looked at their whole industry and how they’ve done this. 85% of their new single-family homes are built in factories. It is efficient. It’s more environmentally friendly. It’s done faster. It’s been cheaper. There’s a real synergy with the timber industry there in terms of supply and demand. The cities are actually developers there. So there was a lot to learn in Sweden,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with finding less expensive building options, Wicks said lawmakers are working to make home ownership easier for Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title entry-title--with-subtitle\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/01/san-diego-immigration-arrest-surge/\">\u003cstrong>Immigration Arrests Surge By 1,500% In San Diego Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"has-drop-cap\">While the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/donald-trump/\">Trump administration’s\u003c/a> immigration blitz hit Midwestern cities like Chicago and Minneapolis, a quieter escalation unfolded in San Diego late last year with agents making thousands of arrests in and around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government data analyzed by CalMatters show nearly a 1500% increase in arrests for May to October compared to the same time period a year earlier. The arrests occurred in San Diego and Imperial counties, a region the federal government refers to as its San Diego area of responsibility. By September, the number of arrests recorded in the two counties surpassed immigration arrests in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/taken-la-immigration-raids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Los Angeles territory\u003c/a>, a much larger region that the Trump administration targeted for a headline-grabbing crackdown that summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September and October, federal immigration officers arrested more than twice as many people in the San Diego region than they did in all of 2024, according to government data. “I feel the temperature rising,” said Patrick Corrigan, a volunteer who monitors U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity at the federal courthouse in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other blue cities across the nation, activists are worried San Diego could be next on President Donald Trump’s list for a major military-style immigration operation. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson would not comment about whether more high-profile operations were planned for the San Diego area. David Kim, a Border Patrol spokesman, said the agency cannot confirm future operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-fires-california-home-cleaning-contamination-bill-harabedian\">\u003cstrong>California Bill Seeks To Set New Standards For Cleaning Homes After Toxic Fires\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The fires that tore through urban Los Angeles County in January 2025 didn’t just destroy thousands of homes — they left thousands more \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-city-housing-landlord-tenant-palisades-fire-ash-smoke-remediation-clean-up\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>filled with toxic ash\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Now, a state bill aims to set new standards for post-fire contamination testing and cleaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember John Harabedian, who represents Altadena, \u003ca href=\"https://a41.asmdc.org/press-releases/20260127-assemblymember-harabedian-introduces-legislation-end-insurance-driven-fire\">introduced AB 1642 this week\u003c/a>. The proposed legislation calls on the state’s Department of Toxic Substances Control to set new standards for removing post-fire contamination from homes, schools and workplaces. “When it comes to our families’ health we trust science, not insurance company guesswork,” Harabedian said in a news release. “Public health will be the standard, not the exception.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health departments have warned residents that smoke from the Eaton and Palisades Fires carried hazardous materials — including lead, asbestos and heavy metals — from burned homes into other nearby properties. But homeowners and renters living near the burn zones have in many cases \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-fires-rental-housing-smoke-damage-repairs-tenant-landlord-pasadena\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>had to battle\u003c/u>\u003c/a> their insurance companies and landlords for testing and remediation. Resident groups and local scientists have been testing homes before and after professional remediation. \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/altadena-eaton-fire-homes-post-remediation-testing-lead-asbestos\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>One group found\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that even after cleaning, 63% of tested homes contained lead on their floors at levels far above EPA safety limits.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, January 9, 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state of California \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-trump-administration-block-unlawful-freeze-10\">is suing the Trump administration\u003c/a> for freezing billions of dollars in federal child care and welfare funding. The federal government said it was withholding the funds from California and four other Democratic-led states over fraud allegations.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Diego is home to the nation’s second largest Somali population. And recent allegations of fraud at Somali-owned child care centers in Minnesota have now spread to their community. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/racial-justice-social-equity/2026/01/08/somali-child-care-providers-in-san-diego-said-strangers-are-surveilling-their-centers\">Somali childcare providers in San Diego\u003c/a> say strangers are now surveilling their centers. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Governor Newsom is releasing his state budget plan Friday. This comes a day after Newsom delivered his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069094/in-final-state-of-state-speech-gov-newsom-says-california-offers-model-for-the-nation\">final state of the state address\u003c/a> at the capitol, touting California as “a marvel of invention and reinvention.”\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>California Sues Trump Administration Over Loss Of Child Care Funding\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorneys general in five Democratic-led states, including California, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/social-service-lawsuit-funds-frozen-56272b3233c9e6f00947c345454498af\">filed a lawsuit Thursday\u003c/a> against President Donald Trump’s administration after it said it would \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-safety-net-funding-fraud-a5b5712a99ea20695a85d2ffe3b687d9\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">freeze money for several public benefit programs\u003c/a>\u003c/span>, citing concerns about fraud in the programs designed to help low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The states — California, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois and New York — called the move an unconstitutional abuse of power. The Trump administration announced earlier this week it was withholding their social safety net funding. The funding went toward three federal programs, two of which focus on lifting \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/child-care-subsidies-trump-dda080acfe3a461a2f41712ce25b9e9e\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">families with children\u003c/a>\u003c/span> out of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding freeze stems from a social media video claiming that Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota committed fraud. California child care facilities say they already have safeguards in place to track attendance, to make sure public funds are being spent on children.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/racial-justice-social-equity/2026/01/08/somali-child-care-providers-in-san-diego-said-strangers-are-surveilling-their-centers\">\u003cstrong>Somali Child Care Providers In San Diego Say Strangers Are Surveilling Their Centers\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Samsam Khalif has provided child care in San Diego long enough to watch babies become adults. Some still come back to visit her. She loves her work. Now, she’s afraid. On Tuesday, she was returning home with children in her car and saw two young men with a camera parked outside. She was scared. She circled the block twice, hoping they would leave. She didn’t want to keep the children in the car for too long, so she eventually parked and went inside. She said when the men saw her enter with the children, they drove away. She’s not alone in her experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, President \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5630522/trumps-tirade-against-somali-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>Donald Trump called Somali people “garbage.” \u003c/u>\u003c/a>Weeks later, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/02/nx-s1-5664111/right-wing-influencers-fraud-claim-leads-to-threats-for-somali-daycare-owners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>a YouTube influencer began surveilling\u003c/u>\u003c/a> Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota and making unverified claims of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego Chapter of the United Domestic Workers of America said it’s heard of at least seven incidents since Monday of strangers surveilling, harassing, and even stalking Somali child care providers — and the incidents are likely underreported. They encouraged providers to report these incidents to the police as hate crimes and to make sure they get the incident report number.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069094/in-final-state-of-state-speech-gov-newsom-says-california-offers-model-for-the-nation\">\u003cstrong>In Final State Of State Speech, Gov. Newsom Says California Offers Model For The Nation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/09/governor-newsom-announces-proposed-budget-that-refills-the-states-rainy-day-fund-protects-previous-accomplishments-and-makes-historic-investments-in-education/\">the state faces a $2.9 billion budget deficit\u003c/a> this year, an amount significantly lower than \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficits-gavin-newsom-953d44b398541267d76fed101a65a2e4\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">what legislative budget analysts projected\u003c/a>\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes a day after Newsom used \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068929/in-final-year-gov-gavin-newsom-looks-to-finish-what-he-started\">his final State of the State speech\u003c/a> to deliver a full-throated defense of the state and his tenure in office — arguing that California can offer an affirmative alternative vision for the future. Newsom mounted a defense of his record on homelessness and climate leadership, while advancing proposals to crack down on corporate homeownership and reform how the state’s education system is governed. He cited a huge growth in revenues — more than $40 billion higher than forecast last year — and touted California’s progressive tax system, which relies far more on top earners than many other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among his specific proposals, Newsom called for new laws to make it harder for private equity firms and other large investors to snap up huge numbers of properties, saying it is driving up housing prices and moving homeownership out of reach. And, he said the state should implement long-talked-about reforms to its education system, moving the Department of Education into the executive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of an expected run for president in 2028, Newsom continued his sharp criticism of President Donald Trump, calling the federal government “unrecognizable” and corrupt. “For 175 years, California has been a marvel of invention and reinvention, disaster and recovery, grit and ingenuity. We have found a way to build the future, over and over,” Newsom said in a fiery opening to his speech. “But today, that spirit is being tested. We face an assault on our values unlike anything I have seen in my lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, President \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5630522/trumps-tirade-against-somali-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>Donald Trump called Somali people “garbage.” \u003c/u>\u003c/a>Weeks later, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/02/nx-s1-5664111/right-wing-influencers-fraud-claim-leads-to-threats-for-somali-daycare-owners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>a YouTube influencer began surveilling\u003c/u>\u003c/a> Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota and making unverified claims of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego Chapter of the United Domestic Workers of America said it’s heard of at least seven incidents since Monday of strangers surveilling, harassing, and even stalking Somali child care providers — and the incidents are likely underreported. They encouraged providers to report these incidents to the police as hate crimes and to make sure they get the incident report number.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069094/in-final-state-of-state-speech-gov-newsom-says-california-offers-model-for-the-nation\">\u003cstrong>In Final State Of State Speech, Gov. Newsom Says California Offers Model For The Nation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/09/governor-newsom-announces-proposed-budget-that-refills-the-states-rainy-day-fund-protects-previous-accomplishments-and-makes-historic-investments-in-education/\">the state faces a $2.9 billion budget deficit\u003c/a> this year, an amount significantly lower than \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficits-gavin-newsom-953d44b398541267d76fed101a65a2e4\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">what legislative budget analysts projected\u003c/a>\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes a day after Newsom used \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068929/in-final-year-gov-gavin-newsom-looks-to-finish-what-he-started\">his final State of the State speech\u003c/a> to deliver a full-throated defense of the state and his tenure in office — arguing that California can offer an affirmative alternative vision for the future. Newsom mounted a defense of his record on homelessness and climate leadership, while advancing proposals to crack down on corporate homeownership and reform how the state’s education system is governed. He cited a huge growth in revenues — more than $40 billion higher than forecast last year — and touted California’s progressive tax system, which relies far more on top earners than many other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among his specific proposals, Newsom called for new laws to make it harder for private equity firms and other large investors to snap up huge numbers of properties, saying it is driving up housing prices and moving homeownership out of reach. And, he said the state should implement long-talked-about reforms to its education system, moving the Department of Education into the executive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of an expected run for president in 2028, Newsom continued his sharp criticism of President Donald Trump, calling the federal government “unrecognizable” and corrupt. “For 175 years, California has been a marvel of invention and reinvention, disaster and recovery, grit and ingenuity. We have found a way to build the future, over and over,” Newsom said in a fiery opening to his speech. “But today, that spirit is being tested. We face an assault on our values unlike anything I have seen in my lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State labor regulators have found Costco, the membership-only wholesale retailer, liable for the underpayment of dozens of delivery drivers in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-diego\">San Diego\u003c/a> region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Labor Commissioner jointly cited Costco Wholesale Corporation, a delivery contractor and a trucking subcontractor, for nearly $870,000, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-111.html\">announcement\u003c/a> Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators found Mega Nice Trucking LLC misclassified 58 drivers as independent contractors, denying them employee rights such as minimum wage, overtime pay and other benefits for a two-year period between August 2022 and September 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also held Costco and contractor Ryder Last Mile Inc. equally responsible as employers for the alleged wage theft, because they closely monitored the drivers’ performance, scheduled deliveries and mandated uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Companies that exert control over workers cannot evade responsibility by hiding behind layers of subcontracting,” Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower said in a statement. “Misclassification strips workers of their rights and protections, and employers who direct and control their workforce are responsible for paying all wages owed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costco, Ryder Last Mile and Mega Nice Trucking did not respond to requests for comment. All three companies have appealed the citation. That process will determine the amount each employer may ultimately pay, according to an agency spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10770963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10770963 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco.jpg\" alt=\"A Costco store\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1283\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-1440x962.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-960x642.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Costco, along with a delivery contractor and a trucking subcontractor, was jointly cited for nearly $870,000 by the California Labor Commissioner, officials announced Thursday. \u003ccite>(Mike Mozart via Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.everee.com/blog/ab5-abc-test/\">state law\u003c/a>, most drivers for trucking and logistics companies should be considered employees, as their labor is engaged in the core activity of the firm’s operations. (App-based companies such as Uber and DoorDash carved out an exemption through a 2020 voter-approved ballot measure.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, tens of thousands of truck and delivery drivers in California could be misclassified as independent contractors because it’s cheaper for the hiring entity, said Steve Viscelli, a sociologist and industry expert at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers do not have to pay for an independent contractor’s sick days, workers’ compensation insurance or share of social security taxes. In trucking, the costs of fuel, insurance costs and vehicle repairs are also passed on to these workers, Viscelli said, which further decreases their earnings.[aside postID=news_12060714 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230718-CAR-WASH-WAGE-THEFT-Getty-GM-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“A lot of times, you can see drivers who are working for really subpar wages. And that can add up to big savings for the trucking carrier and for the companies that are shipping products with them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One in five U.S. Costco warehouses is located in California. The international corporation, headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, posted a \u003ca href=\"https://investor.costco.com/news/news-details/2025/Costco-Wholesale-Corporation-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Fiscal-Year-2025-Operating-Results/default.aspx\">net income\u003c/a> of $8 billion this year, up from $7.4 billion in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Labor Commissioner’s Bureau of Field Enforcement began its investigation in July 2024 after two former Mega Nice Trucking employees complained of misclassification and wage theft. The agency said the company, which had been penalized for similar violations in the past, paid drivers a flat daily rate and falsified payroll records to conceal ongoing violations. Martin Medina, Mega Nice Trucking’s CEO, was also named as an individual in the $868,000 citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 75% of the proposed penalties would be payable to the impacted workers, according to the agency. But restitution is often elusive, as the Labor Commissioner’s Office, also known as the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979626/workers-lost-millions-to-californias-worst-known-wage-thief-and-hes-still-in-business\">plagued with delays\u003c/a> and understaffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small companies in trucking, construction and other industries that are cited for wage theft often close down and resurface with a different name to avoid paying penalties, according to experts. Holding large employers accountable for violations is critical to make workers’ whole and promote compliance, said Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions, AFL-CIO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the laws in California, you can’t plead ignorance because you just keep outsourcing the work. So Costco knew and should have known that those workers were misclassified,” she said. “We need to hold every [guilty] company accountable because they know what they are supposed to be doing and they just try to get by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Labor Commissioner also cited Medina and Mega Nice Trucking $520,000 in a separate case for alleged violations from July 2021 through Sept. 2024, impacting 38 workers in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misclassification costs workers and the social security net thousands of dollars per year. Light truck drivers, who drive small trucks or vans wrongfully considered independent contractors in California, lose as much as $26,000 in annual compensation, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/misclassifying-workers-2025-update/\">estimates\u003c/a> by the Employment Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also held Costco and contractor Ryder Last Mile Inc. equally responsible as employers for the alleged wage theft, because they closely monitored the drivers’ performance, scheduled deliveries and mandated uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Companies that exert control over workers cannot evade responsibility by hiding behind layers of subcontracting,” Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower said in a statement. “Misclassification strips workers of their rights and protections, and employers who direct and control their workforce are responsible for paying all wages owed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costco, Ryder Last Mile and Mega Nice Trucking did not respond to requests for comment. All three companies have appealed the citation. That process will determine the amount each employer may ultimately pay, according to an agency spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10770963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10770963 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco.jpg\" alt=\"A Costco store\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1283\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-1440x962.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-960x642.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Costco, along with a delivery contractor and a trucking subcontractor, was jointly cited for nearly $870,000 by the California Labor Commissioner, officials announced Thursday. \u003ccite>(Mike Mozart via Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.everee.com/blog/ab5-abc-test/\">state law\u003c/a>, most drivers for trucking and logistics companies should be considered employees, as their labor is engaged in the core activity of the firm’s operations. (App-based companies such as Uber and DoorDash carved out an exemption through a 2020 voter-approved ballot measure.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, tens of thousands of truck and delivery drivers in California could be misclassified as independent contractors because it’s cheaper for the hiring entity, said Steve Viscelli, a sociologist and industry expert at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers do not have to pay for an independent contractor’s sick days, workers’ compensation insurance or share of social security taxes. In trucking, the costs of fuel, insurance costs and vehicle repairs are also passed on to these workers, Viscelli said, which further decreases their earnings.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“A lot of times, you can see drivers who are working for really subpar wages. And that can add up to big savings for the trucking carrier and for the companies that are shipping products with them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One in five U.S. Costco warehouses is located in California. The international corporation, headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, posted a \u003ca href=\"https://investor.costco.com/news/news-details/2025/Costco-Wholesale-Corporation-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Fiscal-Year-2025-Operating-Results/default.aspx\">net income\u003c/a> of $8 billion this year, up from $7.4 billion in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Labor Commissioner’s Bureau of Field Enforcement began its investigation in July 2024 after two former Mega Nice Trucking employees complained of misclassification and wage theft. The agency said the company, which had been penalized for similar violations in the past, paid drivers a flat daily rate and falsified payroll records to conceal ongoing violations. Martin Medina, Mega Nice Trucking’s CEO, was also named as an individual in the $868,000 citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 75% of the proposed penalties would be payable to the impacted workers, according to the agency. But restitution is often elusive, as the Labor Commissioner’s Office, also known as the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979626/workers-lost-millions-to-californias-worst-known-wage-thief-and-hes-still-in-business\">plagued with delays\u003c/a> and understaffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small companies in trucking, construction and other industries that are cited for wage theft often close down and resurface with a different name to avoid paying penalties, according to experts. Holding large employers accountable for violations is critical to make workers’ whole and promote compliance, said Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions, AFL-CIO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the laws in California, you can’t plead ignorance because you just keep outsourcing the work. So Costco knew and should have known that those workers were misclassified,” she said. “We need to hold every [guilty] company accountable because they know what they are supposed to be doing and they just try to get by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Labor Commissioner also cited Medina and Mega Nice Trucking $520,000 in a separate case for alleged violations from July 2021 through Sept. 2024, impacting 38 workers in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misclassification costs workers and the social security net thousands of dollars per year. Light truck drivers, who drive small trucks or vans wrongfully considered independent contractors in California, lose as much as $26,000 in annual compensation, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/misclassifying-workers-2025-update/\">estimates\u003c/a> by the Employment Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Californians will decide Nov. 4 on a ballot measure that could reshape how our state is represented in Congress: Proposition 50 would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053140/california-lawmakers-pass-redistricting-plan-now-it-heads-to-voters\">redraw California’s congressional district lines\u003c/a> to help Democrats pick up five additional seats in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure is Gov. Gavin Newsom’s response to the growing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-5501537/texas-california-gerrymandering-redistricting\">national fight over redistricting\u003c/a>, sparked by President Donald Trump’s push for Republicans in Texas to redraw their maps. If Proposition 50 passes, the state’s political map will look different from Sonoma down to San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t stand back and watch this democracy disappear district by district, all across this country,” Newsom said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io2HutlGdHk\">during a press conference\u003c/a> in August. “It’s not good enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil and talk about the way things should be. We have got to meet fire with fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators voted to put Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053140/california-lawmakers-pass-redistricting-plan-now-it-heads-to-voters\">redistricting plan on the ballot\u003c/a>. If Proposition 50 passes, it would temporarily suspend California’s independent redistricting commission through 2030 – an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting move for a state that typically redraws its lines after the census once every 10 years after the census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new map would likely flip five of California’s 52 congressional districts from Republican representation to Democratic. It would also make several existing Democratic seats less competitive by bringing blue-leaning areas like Sonoma and Sacramento counties into more traditionally red areas, like Modoc and Kings counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattle graze in a Modoc County pasture. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the final week of campaigning ahead of Election Day, those in favor of Proposition 50 argue that redistricting in the Golden State is a necessary counterpunch to Texas’ gerrymandering — and a way to stand up to President Trump on principle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents argue that the state’s established citizen redistricting commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060736/recall-redux-democrats-and-republicans-bring-back-familiar-arguments-in-prop-50-battle\">should be the one orchestrating this process\u003c/a> to keep things nonpartisan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In collaboration with The California Newsroom and KQED’s The California Report, journalists across the state spoke with residents, business leaders and legislators from each of the five congressional districts that could change under Proposition 50 to understand what’s at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 3\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick take: Democratic residents in the blue bubble of Lake Tahoe say it’s time to have one of their own in Washington.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Tahoe is a blue dot in California’s 3rd Congressional District, which covers conservative Placer and El Dorado counties and spans down the Eastern Sierra to Death Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has long had a Republican representative in Congress, but this mountainous area that draws outdoor lovers year-round usually votes blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa May Duggan, a Democrat known locally as Tee May, has been writing postcards to voters across the state, urging them to support Proposition 50. She’s lived in Tahoe for 48 years and said the region faces a lot of the same challenges as other parts of California that are often overshadowed by issues surrounding Lake Tahoe itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tee May Duggan writes postcards to California voters urging their support on Proposition 50 at her Tahoe Vista home on Oct. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laura Fitzgerald/CapRadio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine if we had another vote in Congress for things for our community that didn’t involve the lake?” Duggan asked. She wants a representative who will work to boost the region’s housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duggan also wants to feel like she’s part of California, the part that reflects her values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know I live in a blue dot. I want to live in a blue district too,” Duggan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duggan could get her wish if Proposition 50 passes. California’s redistricting proposal would shrink the 3rd Congressional District and tie in parts of bluer Sacramento County, making it easier for a Democratic candidate to win the seat, currently held by Republican Kevin Kiley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents say, regardless of party, they want their representative to pay more attention to the region’s unique challenges, including wildfire prevention, skyrocketing insurance rates, rural health care access and management of federal land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the cuts to the U.S. Forest Service do not serve this area,” said Truckee Town Councilmember Courtney Henderson. “No matter what the boundary looks like or who that representative is, they have to have deep working knowledge of what happens on the ground and in rural communities and a lot of this district is very rural.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>— \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/about/bios/laura-fitzgerald/\">\u003cem>Laura Fitzgerald\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, CapRadio\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 22\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick Take: Farmers fear losing Republican Rep. David Valadao will put them at the mercy of regulation-crazed Dems; others say the congressman needs to pay the political price for supporting Medicaid cuts.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 50 passes, Rep. David Valadao of the Central Valley would be one of five Republicans on the chopping block — and that worries farmers in his district, which comprises a significant portion of California’s rich agricultural belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kings County is one of \u003ca href=\"https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/final-maps/\">three agricultural counties\u003c/a> that make up District 22, represented by Valadao. Dairy farms, vineyards and crops help make California one of the world’s leading agricultural exporters, bringing in \u003ca href=\"https://plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov/wordpress/?p=27335\">billions of dollars\u003c/a> a year and providing \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/transportation-planning/documents/new-state-planning/transportation-economics/socioeconomic-forecasts/2019/2019-pdf/kingsfinal-a11y.pdf\">tens of thousands\u003c/a> of jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a point of pride for Charles Meyer, who grows a cornucopia of crops on his 1,500-acre Stratford farm in Kings County, including wheat, Pima cotton, alfalfa, almonds and pistachios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Meyer stands in his Kings County cotton field on Oct. 10, 2025. He said he opposes Proposition 50 — and Democratic leadership in general — because he feels their environmental regulations are slowly edging farmers out of business. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You become attached to the ground,” he said. “It’s like our boys in the military, they give their life for the country. We feel about our ground about like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer wants elected leaders who feel that way, too. Valadao, who \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/about/\">used to be a dairy farmer\u003c/a>, was first elected to Congress in 2012. But if voters approve Proposition 50 next month, District 22 would stretch out \u003ca href=\"https://aelc.assembly.ca.gov/proposed-congressional-map\">almost twice as long\u003c/a> to gain Democratic voters from neighboring counties and give them a better shot at winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want anything that would help Democrats gain power,” Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because California Democrats have pushed a slew of environmental regulations aimed at protecting air, \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/water_issues/irrigated_lands/background_history/\">water\u003c/a> and ecosystems. They also restrict things like \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/sgma/about_sgma.html\">groundwater\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/docs/Fertilizer_Law_and_Regs.pdf\">fertilizer use\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer calls that regulatory overreach, and he blames Democrats for rising farming costs and slumping profits: “When they gain power, negative things happen,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Meyer holds pima cotton he grew on his Stratford, California farm. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a common opinion. Signs reading “Vote No on Prop. 50” line Kings County’s highways, alongside banners to recall Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Democrats, however, support the new map. Karla Orosco, a retired science teacher, was among a dozen people recently holding up signs in favor of Proposition 50 and other Democratic priorities in nearby Lemoore. She’s part of a “bridge brigade” that hangs signs on overpasses throughout Kings County. None of the dozen volunteers canvassing in Lemoore that day was a farmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they said they’re angry that Valadao hasn’t hosted an in-person town hall in \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1424\">more than a year\u003c/a>, and that he voted to cut Medicaid — even though he said he wouldn’t, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/how-many-congressional-district-get-medi-cal-premium-subsidy-through-covered-california/\">two-thirds of his constituents\u003c/a> rely on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to hurt a lot of people, and it’s going to wake a lot of people up when the healthcare premiums go up,” Orosco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/people/kerry-klein\">\u003cem>Kerry Klein\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, KVPR\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 48\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick take: In a largely red area of San Diego County, Democrats see Proposition 50 as a way to reach new voters.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego County, four out of five congressional seats are held by Democrats. But in the more rural northeast part of the county, Republicans have been on a winning streak that has lasted more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Darrell Issa, who holds California’s 48th District seat, has represented the area through multiple redistricting cycles. If Proposition 50 passes in November, Issa’s district would become almost unrecognizable, shifting from a double-digit advantage for Republicans to a 10-point lead for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056383\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa speaks to media outside of a House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Democratic Party activists say the district already has more liberal-leaning voters than even residents in the area might think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people find out that they actually have Democrats or like-minded people as their neighbors, they’re surprised,” said Andi McNew, who was canvassing in the small city of Poway in favor of Proposition 50. “While the MAGA people are loud with their flags and stuff, it kind of keeps Democrats afraid and scared. And they shouldn’t be scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNew said this perception leads people — and the Democratic Party — to write these areas off as “red,” and not invest in getting out the vote. But because Proposition 50 is a statewide referendum, every vote counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why it’s so sad to see Democrats give up on these areas and not run … for these local seats, because we can win them,” McNew said.[aside postID=news_12061445 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED.jpg']San Diego County Democratic Party Chair Will Rodriguez-Kennedy said his group is going “all in” on Proposition 50 messaging to reach “everyone, everywhere, all at once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party is expanding efforts to reach voters who speak different languages. He said activists on the ground have asked for Spanish-language material, which they’ve been delivering to locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Martinez is one of those activists. She volunteers with the Fallbrook Democratic Club, which covers the area northeast of Camp Pendleton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fifty percent of our Democratic base here [in Fallbrook] is of Hispanic and or Indigenous [heritage],” Martinez said. “So, maybe in the past … their needs and their wants and their voices have not been addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez said targeted outreach makes a big difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do get a lot of ‘thank yous,’” Martinez said. “We get people telling us that in the entire 20 years or so that they’ve lived in this community, no one has ever given them any voter information in their native language of Spanish. So I see that as a huge success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/staff/jake-gotta\">\u003cem>Jake Gotta\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, KPBS\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 1\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick take: Folks in California’s largest Congressional District worry their rural way of life could be threatened by wealthy Bay Area representation under Proposition 50.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s 1st Congressional District is the state’s largest by geography: It stretches from Modoc County in the northeast corner of the state to the Klamath National Forest in the west, and down south to the city of Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s vast, Modoc is the third-least populated county in the state. It’s part of a congressional district created to include counties that depend on natural resources like ranching, timber and farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Proposition 50, that would change: Modoc would still be clustered with like-minded Siskiyou and Shasta counties, but it would be in the same congressional district — District 2 — as Marin County on the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents are concerned that the new maps would further reduce their political power in a super-blue state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist and rancher Valerie Coe moved to Modoc County in the 1990s. She’s concerned that Modoc will be forgotten in the proposed changes, and likes current Congressman Doug LaMalfa, a Republican.[aside label=\"2025 California Special Election\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50,Learn about Proposition 50' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Aside-2025-Special-Election-Voter-Guide-Proposition-50-1200x675-1.png]“The representation we have now is a gentleman who is a farmer himself, and so he understands the challenges we face in agriculture,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 50 is approved, Modoc County Democrats hope that Jared Huffman, who currently represents District 2 and calls Marin County home, would become the area’s new congressman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t get what’s going on on the ground in rural areas at all,” said Geri Byrne, a rancher and county supervisor. Huffman isn’t a farmer and represents Bay Area cities like San Rafael and Petaluma, along with more rural cities on the coast like Fort Bragg and Ukiah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman told Jefferson Public Radio he’s aware of the skeptics and knows what he’s up against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got to take the time and make the effort to humanize myself, to show that I do care,” Huffman said. “I’m not some caricature of an urban elite that knows nothing about rural America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chico, also in District 1, is a bright blue dot in a sea of red. If Proposition 50 is approved, it would stay in District 1, but would be clustered into the same district as some wealthy Bay Area cities like Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chico and Santa Rosa voted for Kamala Harris and agreed on seven out of the 10 propositions on the 2024 ballot. But Chico resident Walt Stile said political affinity doesn’t equate to a connection, and that people in Santa Rosa aren’t likely to care about issues that Chico faces, like flooding in the Sacramento River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think people in Santa Rosa even know where Chico is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when Chico resident Denise Katsikas thinks of Santa Rosa, her first thought is fancy wineries and wealth. (In 2023, Santa Rosa, with its many vineyards, was ranked \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2023/11/07/santa-rosa-ranks-among-top-25-most-expensive-places-to-live-in-the-us-according-to-us-news-world-report/\">eighth out of the 25 most expensive places to live\u003c/a> in the United States, according to a U.S. News & World Report.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m closer to being evicted from my home that’s not paid off than I am to being a billionaire,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Katsikas is in favor of Proposition 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/people/roman-battaglia\">\u003cem>Roman Battaglia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, Jefferson Public Radio and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mynspr.org/people/sarina-grossi\">\u003cem>Sarina Grossi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, North State Public Radio\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 41\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick Take: Welcome to the horsey hamlet of Norco, where voters want to protect their way of life, and “Gavin Newsom” is a dirty word. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life in Norco, a rural city of about 25,000 in Riverside County, is built around horses. Locals call it “Horsetown USA.” Just ask resident Don Pettinger, who rides his reddish-brown horse, “Rusty,” through his neighborhood — the sidewalks in Norco are horse trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does Norco stand for? It stands for the equestrian lifestyle … being able to get our horse and go ride,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pettinger and many others in Norco worry they’ll lose their equestrian way of life if Proposition 50 passes. That’s because Norco would be shifted from a staunchly conservative district into one that’s solidly Democratic, urban and possibly unsympathetic to what Pettinger and others here hold dear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061954\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3-1536x1112.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Norco’s Main Street — which boasts a “Horsetown, USA” sign in addition to horse trails instead of sidewalks — is seen on Oct. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Madison Aument/KVCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we get a representative here who is representing Los Angeles or parts of Pomona or something like that, she’s not going to be used to our lifestyles, or whoever that Congress person is,” he said. “We need someone who knows who we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norco’s current representative, Republican Ken Calvert, \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/about-ken/biography\">was born and raised in Corona\u003c/a>, which is just one town over. He’s represented District 41 for more than 30 years. Pettinger abhors the idea of Proposition 50 taking Calvert away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more an issue of a power grab by the governor and the state trying to put their will in place so that they can help control Congress for whoever might control the White House next,” Pettinger said. “And it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calvert has served on the House Appropriations Committee for more than a decade. Norco City Councilmember Kevin Bash said over the years, the congressman has delivered funding to the region for several big infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He built \u003ca href=\"https://www.rctc.org/community-celebrates-completion-of-mayor-berwin-hanna-bridge-and-hamner-widening-projects/\">two bridges\u003c/a> for us,” Bash said. “He’s put together a \u003ca href=\"https://kesq.com/news/2024/03/06/millions-in-federal-funding-for-infrastructure-projects-could-be-on-its-way-to-the-coachella-valley/\">recycled water treatment plant\u003c/a> to help the Navy, to help our lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bash worries that without Calvert, Norco might not get what it needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet conversations with Bash and many other Republicans in town often turn away from Congress and focus instead on state politics, where Democrats hold the power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, they say state policies that require high-density housing threaten Norco’s way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our biggest enemy is the state of California,” Bash said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as many California Republicans see it, Gov. Newsom — who launched Proposition 50 in response to gerrymandering efforts in Texas — \u003cem>is \u003c/em>the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Democrats in Norco see Proposition 50’s proposed map as an opportunity to get rid of Calvert. Chair of the Riverside County Democratic Party Joy Silver said after more than 30 years, it’s about time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ken Calvert, I think, is just one of those guys who touts the party line,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Calvert voted to cut Medicaid, by way of voting for the Big Beautiful Bill, and he holds an “\u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/calvert-evo.house.gov/files/migrated/UploadedFiles/Calvert_Amnesty.pdf\">enforcement-first\u003c/a>” stance on immigration. Local Democrats also say he’s notorious for not hosting town hall events. According to Calvert’s website, the last town hall was held \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-announces-telephone-town-hall\">in 2017\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t matter much to Don Pettinger. Even though there’s no sign Congress would come for his horse trails, he still worries that a new district map would stir up trouble for Norco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let us be Horsetown, USA,” he said. “Let us be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/people/madison-aument\">\u003cem>Madison Aument\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, KVCR\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of \u003c/em>California Divided,\u003cem> a digital and audio series about Proposition 50 produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">\u003cem>The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a collaboration of public media outlets throughout the state and KQED’s The California Report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators voted to put Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053140/california-lawmakers-pass-redistricting-plan-now-it-heads-to-voters\">redistricting plan on the ballot\u003c/a>. If Proposition 50 passes, it would temporarily suspend California’s independent redistricting commission through 2030 – an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting move for a state that typically redraws its lines after the census once every 10 years after the census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new map would likely flip five of California’s 52 congressional districts from Republican representation to Democratic. It would also make several existing Democratic seats less competitive by bringing blue-leaning areas like Sonoma and Sacramento counties into more traditionally red areas, like Modoc and Kings counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattle graze in a Modoc County pasture. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the final week of campaigning ahead of Election Day, those in favor of Proposition 50 argue that redistricting in the Golden State is a necessary counterpunch to Texas’ gerrymandering — and a way to stand up to President Trump on principle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents argue that the state’s established citizen redistricting commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060736/recall-redux-democrats-and-republicans-bring-back-familiar-arguments-in-prop-50-battle\">should be the one orchestrating this process\u003c/a> to keep things nonpartisan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In collaboration with The California Newsroom and KQED’s The California Report, journalists across the state spoke with residents, business leaders and legislators from each of the five congressional districts that could change under Proposition 50 to understand what’s at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 3\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick take: Democratic residents in the blue bubble of Lake Tahoe say it’s time to have one of their own in Washington.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Tahoe is a blue dot in California’s 3rd Congressional District, which covers conservative Placer and El Dorado counties and spans down the Eastern Sierra to Death Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has long had a Republican representative in Congress, but this mountainous area that draws outdoor lovers year-round usually votes blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa May Duggan, a Democrat known locally as Tee May, has been writing postcards to voters across the state, urging them to support Proposition 50. She’s lived in Tahoe for 48 years and said the region faces a lot of the same challenges as other parts of California that are often overshadowed by issues surrounding Lake Tahoe itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tee May Duggan writes postcards to California voters urging their support on Proposition 50 at her Tahoe Vista home on Oct. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laura Fitzgerald/CapRadio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine if we had another vote in Congress for things for our community that didn’t involve the lake?” Duggan asked. She wants a representative who will work to boost the region’s housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duggan also wants to feel like she’s part of California, the part that reflects her values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know I live in a blue dot. I want to live in a blue district too,” Duggan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duggan could get her wish if Proposition 50 passes. California’s redistricting proposal would shrink the 3rd Congressional District and tie in parts of bluer Sacramento County, making it easier for a Democratic candidate to win the seat, currently held by Republican Kevin Kiley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents say, regardless of party, they want their representative to pay more attention to the region’s unique challenges, including wildfire prevention, skyrocketing insurance rates, rural health care access and management of federal land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the cuts to the U.S. Forest Service do not serve this area,” said Truckee Town Councilmember Courtney Henderson. “No matter what the boundary looks like or who that representative is, they have to have deep working knowledge of what happens on the ground and in rural communities and a lot of this district is very rural.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>— \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/about/bios/laura-fitzgerald/\">\u003cem>Laura Fitzgerald\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, CapRadio\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 22\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick Take: Farmers fear losing Republican Rep. David Valadao will put them at the mercy of regulation-crazed Dems; others say the congressman needs to pay the political price for supporting Medicaid cuts.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 50 passes, Rep. David Valadao of the Central Valley would be one of five Republicans on the chopping block — and that worries farmers in his district, which comprises a significant portion of California’s rich agricultural belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kings County is one of \u003ca href=\"https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/final-maps/\">three agricultural counties\u003c/a> that make up District 22, represented by Valadao. Dairy farms, vineyards and crops help make California one of the world’s leading agricultural exporters, bringing in \u003ca href=\"https://plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov/wordpress/?p=27335\">billions of dollars\u003c/a> a year and providing \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/transportation-planning/documents/new-state-planning/transportation-economics/socioeconomic-forecasts/2019/2019-pdf/kingsfinal-a11y.pdf\">tens of thousands\u003c/a> of jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a point of pride for Charles Meyer, who grows a cornucopia of crops on his 1,500-acre Stratford farm in Kings County, including wheat, Pima cotton, alfalfa, almonds and pistachios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided2-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Meyer stands in his Kings County cotton field on Oct. 10, 2025. He said he opposes Proposition 50 — and Democratic leadership in general — because he feels their environmental regulations are slowly edging farmers out of business. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You become attached to the ground,” he said. “It’s like our boys in the military, they give their life for the country. We feel about our ground about like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer wants elected leaders who feel that way, too. Valadao, who \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/about/\">used to be a dairy farmer\u003c/a>, was first elected to Congress in 2012. But if voters approve Proposition 50 next month, District 22 would stretch out \u003ca href=\"https://aelc.assembly.ca.gov/proposed-congressional-map\">almost twice as long\u003c/a> to gain Democratic voters from neighboring counties and give them a better shot at winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want anything that would help Democrats gain power,” Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because California Democrats have pushed a slew of environmental regulations aimed at protecting air, \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/water_issues/irrigated_lands/background_history/\">water\u003c/a> and ecosystems. They also restrict things like \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/sgma/about_sgma.html\">groundwater\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/docs/Fertilizer_Law_and_Regs.pdf\">fertilizer use\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer calls that regulatory overreach, and he blames Democrats for rising farming costs and slumping profits: “When they gain power, negative things happen,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided4-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Meyer holds pima cotton he grew on his Stratford, California farm. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a common opinion. Signs reading “Vote No on Prop. 50” line Kings County’s highways, alongside banners to recall Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Democrats, however, support the new map. Karla Orosco, a retired science teacher, was among a dozen people recently holding up signs in favor of Proposition 50 and other Democratic priorities in nearby Lemoore. She’s part of a “bridge brigade” that hangs signs on overpasses throughout Kings County. None of the dozen volunteers canvassing in Lemoore that day was a farmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they said they’re angry that Valadao hasn’t hosted an in-person town hall in \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1424\">more than a year\u003c/a>, and that he voted to cut Medicaid — even though he said he wouldn’t, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/how-many-congressional-district-get-medi-cal-premium-subsidy-through-covered-california/\">two-thirds of his constituents\u003c/a> rely on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to hurt a lot of people, and it’s going to wake a lot of people up when the healthcare premiums go up,” Orosco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/people/kerry-klein\">\u003cem>Kerry Klein\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, KVPR\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 48\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick take: In a largely red area of San Diego County, Democrats see Proposition 50 as a way to reach new voters.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego County, four out of five congressional seats are held by Democrats. But in the more rural northeast part of the county, Republicans have been on a winning streak that has lasted more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Darrell Issa, who holds California’s 48th District seat, has represented the area through multiple redistricting cycles. If Proposition 50 passes in November, Issa’s district would become almost unrecognizable, shifting from a double-digit advantage for Republicans to a 10-point lead for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056383\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Newsom-Gerry_CalMatters-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa speaks to media outside of a House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Democratic Party activists say the district already has more liberal-leaning voters than even residents in the area might think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people find out that they actually have Democrats or like-minded people as their neighbors, they’re surprised,” said Andi McNew, who was canvassing in the small city of Poway in favor of Proposition 50. “While the MAGA people are loud with their flags and stuff, it kind of keeps Democrats afraid and scared. And they shouldn’t be scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNew said this perception leads people — and the Democratic Party — to write these areas off as “red,” and not invest in getting out the vote. But because Proposition 50 is a statewide referendum, every vote counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why it’s so sad to see Democrats give up on these areas and not run … for these local seats, because we can win them,” McNew said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San Diego County Democratic Party Chair Will Rodriguez-Kennedy said his group is going “all in” on Proposition 50 messaging to reach “everyone, everywhere, all at once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party is expanding efforts to reach voters who speak different languages. He said activists on the ground have asked for Spanish-language material, which they’ve been delivering to locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Martinez is one of those activists. She volunteers with the Fallbrook Democratic Club, which covers the area northeast of Camp Pendleton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fifty percent of our Democratic base here [in Fallbrook] is of Hispanic and or Indigenous [heritage],” Martinez said. “So, maybe in the past … their needs and their wants and their voices have not been addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez said targeted outreach makes a big difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do get a lot of ‘thank yous,’” Martinez said. “We get people telling us that in the entire 20 years or so that they’ve lived in this community, no one has ever given them any voter information in their native language of Spanish. So I see that as a huge success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/staff/jake-gotta\">\u003cem>Jake Gotta\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, KPBS\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 1\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick take: Folks in California’s largest Congressional District worry their rural way of life could be threatened by wealthy Bay Area representation under Proposition 50.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s 1st Congressional District is the state’s largest by geography: It stretches from Modoc County in the northeast corner of the state to the Klamath National Forest in the west, and down south to the city of Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s vast, Modoc is the third-least populated county in the state. It’s part of a congressional district created to include counties that depend on natural resources like ranching, timber and farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Proposition 50, that would change: Modoc would still be clustered with like-minded Siskiyou and Shasta counties, but it would be in the same congressional district — District 2 — as Marin County on the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents are concerned that the new maps would further reduce their political power in a super-blue state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist and rancher Valerie Coe moved to Modoc County in the 1990s. She’s concerned that Modoc will be forgotten in the proposed changes, and likes current Congressman Doug LaMalfa, a Republican.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The representation we have now is a gentleman who is a farmer himself, and so he understands the challenges we face in agriculture,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 50 is approved, Modoc County Democrats hope that Jared Huffman, who currently represents District 2 and calls Marin County home, would become the area’s new congressman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t get what’s going on on the ground in rural areas at all,” said Geri Byrne, a rancher and county supervisor. Huffman isn’t a farmer and represents Bay Area cities like San Rafael and Petaluma, along with more rural cities on the coast like Fort Bragg and Ukiah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman told Jefferson Public Radio he’s aware of the skeptics and knows what he’s up against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got to take the time and make the effort to humanize myself, to show that I do care,” Huffman said. “I’m not some caricature of an urban elite that knows nothing about rural America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chico, also in District 1, is a bright blue dot in a sea of red. If Proposition 50 is approved, it would stay in District 1, but would be clustered into the same district as some wealthy Bay Area cities like Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chico and Santa Rosa voted for Kamala Harris and agreed on seven out of the 10 propositions on the 2024 ballot. But Chico resident Walt Stile said political affinity doesn’t equate to a connection, and that people in Santa Rosa aren’t likely to care about issues that Chico faces, like flooding in the Sacramento River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think people in Santa Rosa even know where Chico is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when Chico resident Denise Katsikas thinks of Santa Rosa, her first thought is fancy wineries and wealth. (In 2023, Santa Rosa, with its many vineyards, was ranked \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2023/11/07/santa-rosa-ranks-among-top-25-most-expensive-places-to-live-in-the-us-according-to-us-news-world-report/\">eighth out of the 25 most expensive places to live\u003c/a> in the United States, according to a U.S. News & World Report.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m closer to being evicted from my home that’s not paid off than I am to being a billionaire,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Katsikas is in favor of Proposition 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/people/roman-battaglia\">\u003cem>Roman Battaglia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, Jefferson Public Radio and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mynspr.org/people/sarina-grossi\">\u003cem>Sarina Grossi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, North State Public Radio\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 41\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quick Take: Welcome to the horsey hamlet of Norco, where voters want to protect their way of life, and “Gavin Newsom” is a dirty word. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life in Norco, a rural city of about 25,000 in Riverside County, is built around horses. Locals call it “Horsetown USA.” Just ask resident Don Pettinger, who rides his reddish-brown horse, “Rusty,” through his neighborhood — the sidewalks in Norco are horse trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does Norco stand for? It stands for the equestrian lifestyle … being able to get our horse and go ride,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pettinger and many others in Norco worry they’ll lose their equestrian way of life if Proposition 50 passes. That’s because Norco would be shifted from a staunchly conservative district into one that’s solidly Democratic, urban and possibly unsympathetic to what Pettinger and others here hold dear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061954\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CaliforniaDivided3-1536x1112.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Norco’s Main Street — which boasts a “Horsetown, USA” sign in addition to horse trails instead of sidewalks — is seen on Oct. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Madison Aument/KVCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we get a representative here who is representing Los Angeles or parts of Pomona or something like that, she’s not going to be used to our lifestyles, or whoever that Congress person is,” he said. “We need someone who knows who we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norco’s current representative, Republican Ken Calvert, \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/about-ken/biography\">was born and raised in Corona\u003c/a>, which is just one town over. He’s represented District 41 for more than 30 years. Pettinger abhors the idea of Proposition 50 taking Calvert away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more an issue of a power grab by the governor and the state trying to put their will in place so that they can help control Congress for whoever might control the White House next,” Pettinger said. “And it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calvert has served on the House Appropriations Committee for more than a decade. Norco City Councilmember Kevin Bash said over the years, the congressman has delivered funding to the region for several big infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He built \u003ca href=\"https://www.rctc.org/community-celebrates-completion-of-mayor-berwin-hanna-bridge-and-hamner-widening-projects/\">two bridges\u003c/a> for us,” Bash said. “He’s put together a \u003ca href=\"https://kesq.com/news/2024/03/06/millions-in-federal-funding-for-infrastructure-projects-could-be-on-its-way-to-the-coachella-valley/\">recycled water treatment plant\u003c/a> to help the Navy, to help our lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bash worries that without Calvert, Norco might not get what it needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet conversations with Bash and many other Republicans in town often turn away from Congress and focus instead on state politics, where Democrats hold the power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, they say state policies that require high-density housing threaten Norco’s way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our biggest enemy is the state of California,” Bash said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as many California Republicans see it, Gov. Newsom — who launched Proposition 50 in response to gerrymandering efforts in Texas — \u003cem>is \u003c/em>the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Democrats in Norco see Proposition 50’s proposed map as an opportunity to get rid of Calvert. Chair of the Riverside County Democratic Party Joy Silver said after more than 30 years, it’s about time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ken Calvert, I think, is just one of those guys who touts the party line,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Calvert voted to cut Medicaid, by way of voting for the Big Beautiful Bill, and he holds an “\u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/calvert-evo.house.gov/files/migrated/UploadedFiles/Calvert_Amnesty.pdf\">enforcement-first\u003c/a>” stance on immigration. Local Democrats also say he’s notorious for not hosting town hall events. According to Calvert’s website, the last town hall was held \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-announces-telephone-town-hall\">in 2017\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t matter much to Don Pettinger. 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She’s a really great, smart, thoughtful leader for California and it would have been great to see her as governor,” Wiener told KQED. “But I understand you have to make assessments about the state of the campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since former Vice President Kamala Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050425/kamala-harris-wont-run-for-governor-opening-up-the-field\">passed on the race\u003c/a>, many of the leading Democrats running for governor — including former Congresswoman Katie Porter and former Attorney General Xavier Becerra — have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054200/top-challengers-for-californias-gubernatorial-race\">escalated their promises\u003c/a> to spearhead a resistance to President Donald Trump if elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Atkins ran on a platform of pragmatism and hoped to connect with residents of small towns and cities through a statewide listening tour. 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Republicans have excoriated the massive infrastructure project almost since its inception in 1996, casting it as the epitome of government waste and inefficiency. After unsuccessfully attempting to cut its funding during his first term, President Trump in February vowed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/high-speed-rail-trump-20148959.php\">personally investigate the project\u003c/a>, directing transportation officials to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028135/the-future-for-california-high-speed-rail-just-got-even-more-uncertain\">conduct a compliance review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, May 23, 2025…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Six people are presumed dead after \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/plane-crash-san-diego-5e465454fc0282a81adafc1bfdc142a1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a private jet crashed into a San Diego neighborhood\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> early Thursday morning.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996968/senate-votes-block-californias-electric-vehicle-mandate\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">suing the federal government\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for blocking the state’s ability to set its own clean air rules.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The decision to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-05-20/call-to-eliminate-climate-distraction-in-the-military-stymies-research-at-montereys-naval-postgraduate-school-sources-say\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">take down a climate security website\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Monterey’s Naval Postgraduate School, or NPS, signals broader self-censorship there around climate research and scholarship. It comes in the wake of the U.S. Defense Department’s call to eliminate so-called “climate distraction” in the military. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The legislature is considering two new bills aimed at improving conditions for incarcerated workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Investigation Continues Into Plane Crash In San Diego\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A private jet carrying a music talent agent and five others hit a power line in foggy weather early Thursday and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/05/22/small-plane-crashes-into-san-diego-neighborhood-prompting-large-residential-fire\">crashed into a San Diego neighborhood\u003c/a>, slamming into a home and killing multiple people on the flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the home engulfed in flames and jet fuel rolling down the streets, half a dozen vehicles ignited while residents in the neighborhood of U.S. Navy-owned housing were shaken awake just before 4 a.m. by the thunderous crash and subsequent explosions. No one in the neighborhood died, but eight people were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation and injuries that were not life-threatening, including a person who was hurt climbing out a window, police officer Anthony Carrasco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Shapiro, co-founder of Sound Talent Group, and two employees were among those killed, the music agency said in a statement. Sound Talent Group has represented artists including American pop band Hanson, American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton and the Canadian rock group Sum 41. “We are devastated by the loss of our co-founder, colleagues and friends. Our hearts go out to their families and to everyone impacted by today’s tragedy,” the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six people were on board the plane, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Authorities were still combing the scene and recovering the bodies before releasing an official number and identifying the dead, though there were not believed to be any survivors aboard the flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airport weather instrumentation that pilots rely on to safely land planes has not functioned properly at Montgomery Field Airport, which is where the jet was flying to, since Tuesday, the National Weather Service (NWS) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/05/22/montgomery-field-airport-weather-instruments-not-functioning-properly-at-time-of-plane-crash\">confirmed with KPBS.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996968/senate-votes-block-californias-electric-vehicle-mandate\">\u003cstrong>California Sues Feds After Senate Blocks Its Clean Vehicle Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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Due to the state’s historically horrendous air pollution, the federal government granted California the authority to set its own emissions standards, as long as they were stricter than federal rules. Those rules would then require approval from the EPA through waivers for final approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans sidestepped the filibuster by using a little-known tool called the Congressional Review Act to revoke the waivers. 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