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He heard from them before and after he issued the moratorium in 2019. “This decision is among the most difficult of my career, not because I doubt its necessity for our state but because I know its announcement may surface excruciating memories for victims’ families,” the governor said in his open letter. “I hold this painful truth along with the belief that this is a righteous action.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/politics/raman-defeats-bass-in-race-for-la-mayor-ushering-in-new-era-of-progressive-politics\">Raman defeats Bass in race for LA mayor\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nithya Raman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who offered a message of hope to a city beset by crises, has beaten Karen Bass in the race for Los Angeles mayor, the first time an incumbent has been ousted from that office in nearly a quarter century.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raman, who is of Indian descent, becomes the first South Asian mayor of L.A. She was elected to the City Council six years ago. Bass conceded the race Thursday morning. At the time, she had 48% of the vote compared with Raman’s 52%, according to the latest vote count.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a video statement, Raman said she was “deeply honored” to be L.A.’s next mayor, and she thanked the people who knocked on doors, sent texts and made phone calls in support of her campaign. 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She also has vowed to improve basic city services like pothole and streetlight repair.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Shasta County’s struggles on Election Day\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across California, county registrars reported few problems at the polls on Election Day. There was one exception – in Shasta County, \u003ca href=\"https://shastascout.org/shasta-is-the-only-california-county-still-struggling-to-finish-counting-precinct-ballots/\">where problems delayed the count of ballots \u003c/a>that were cast in-person.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Shasta Scout reports that outgoing Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis blamed delays on short staffing. 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He had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106024/newsom-could-commute-californias-death-sentences-will-he-pay-a-political-price\">weighing the decision\u003c/a> for months. “I know we cannot execute people in our imperfect legal system and remain true to our core values, first among them justice and human decency,” Newsom said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/2026-11-5-26-GGN-Open-Letter-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an open letter\u003c/a> to Californians.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newsom’s move represents the largest act of mass clemency in U.S. history, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. More than half of the cases, those involving people who were convicted of more than one felony, will require review by the California Supreme Court under the state’s Constitution. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California has not executed anyone since 2006 as legal challenges, concerns over the state’s lethal injection protocol and, finally, Newsom’s moratorium have essentially disabled the state’s death penalty. Under Newsom, the execution chamber at San Quentin State Prison, where death sentences were once carried out, has been dismantled. Still, as Newsom considered whether to commute the remaining death sentences, opponents of capital punishment said such decisive action would have deep consequences, especially given its scale. 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She was elected to the City Council six years ago. Bass conceded the race Thursday morning. At the time, she had 48% of the vote compared with Raman’s 52%, according to the latest vote count.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a video statement, Raman said she was “deeply honored” to be L.A.’s next mayor, and she thanked the people who knocked on doors, sent texts and made phone calls in support of her campaign. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cbr>The Trump administration has been ramping up efforts to find voter fraud in California. Claims of voter fraud can have real-world consequences for communities. Today, Stanford Political Science Professor Justin Grimmer tells us about a group of traveling election skeptics who target mostly rural, conservative communities to spread their claims of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Episode Transcript\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. Justin Grimmer is obsessed with voter fraud. He’s a professor of political science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. And he spent a lot of time researching elections. So when Donald Trump began making claims of voter fraud and manipulation after the 2020 election, Justin and his collaborators made it their mission to get to the bottom of it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> And so I, along with one of my post-docs and a collaborator, we began investigating these claims in gory, gory details, dove into the data to figure out what they were claiming and what evidence basis they had to make those claims. And what we found was those claims were lacking really any evidentiary basis at all, or were pointing out to patterns in the world that weren’t really evidence of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Since then, claims of election fraud have become dangerously common, and Justin has kept pace, diving into these claims one by one. They’ve taken him all over the country to follow a growing movement of traveling election skeptics who visit mostly rural conservative communities to spread their claims of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> This sort of campaign says every election is subject to this manipulation. And that is a troubling allegation for democracy. It’s a troubling allegation if you’re an election administrator in those places.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Today, inside the movement of election fraud evangelizers and the real world impacts it has on the communities they visit. When did you first get wind of this movement of people?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So it was the summer of 2021. We had just published our paper about the Trump campaign’s claims about the 2020 election and a reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer called me. He said, I want to let you know that there is this kind of movement happening in Pennsylvania. There’s someone alleging that every election in our state is being manipulated. And the reason you should care is that this person is talking to our state legislature. And so in 2021, we began assembling the claims that this person, Doug Frank, was making. It became clear to us very quickly that there were other people in this space who were making similar sorts of claims. And it also became very clear that the claims were outlandish. They’re sort of, like, very quickly, we noticed a sort of statistical flaw in the argument. But nevertheless, the claims were popular, people seemed to be adopting them, people are very responsive to them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> What you’re talking about is this research that you’re doing on specifically this sort of movement of people who really, it seems like, target these sort of rural, more conservative areas to spread these claims of voter fraud. Tell me a little bit more about this movement. Who are these people and what exactly are they doing?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> We could think about two parts to this movement. One part of the movement is a national movement of almost professional election skeptics who tour the country and make the claim that every election everywhere is being stolen. At the same time, they’re inspiring local movements of individuals who hear what these election skeptic have to say and then form groups of people who wanna investigate it themselves. And those individuals will begin an investigation where they see if they can find phantom voters or individuals who should not be on the voter file or they think should not on the vote file. So it’s a movement that’s happening both nationally and then very locally as these groups get together.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> And how did you go about actually studying this group of people?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So what we decided to do was to start showing up where the election skeptics were presenting and talking to the people who were there, figuring out what it is about the movement that they find compelling, why do they think this argument is true and what sort of evidence are they basing their beliefs on?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> So let’s talk about how this sort of plays out on the ground. For these sort of election fraud evangelizers, Justin, I mean, what is their MO, and how do they end up in places like Shasta County?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> My general impression is that they go where they are invited. And so this would explain why they end up in relatively conservative places, because individuals may learn about them from online social media like Telegram or from a sort of right-wing version of YouTube called Rumble will post their videos. So they learn about then. And when they’re invited to these places, it’ll either be local political activists who are interested in having them speak. And sometimes it’s entrepreneurial politicians. So we’ve seen both, for example, in Shasta County, political activists have helped support bringing these individuals in, and also some elected officials have supported it as well.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> And who is their audience? I mean, are these like town halls? Are these people who maybe otherwise don’t believe in these things, but are sitting there to be convinced?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So one thing that they love to do, these election evangelizers or election skeptics, is they’ll go to public comment at county meetings. That’s often a prelude to those skeptics being invited back to give a longer presentation at the county meeting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Meeting tape\u003c/strong>: I want to see some hands as to how many people think in the United States there’s been some hacking with our computer system. Let’s see some…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> In parallel, when they make these visits, they’ll also do night time meetings. Sometimes they’ll be held in churches, sometimes in public forums. We attended a speech by a different election, a skeptic in Shasta County. It was hosted by a former county supervisor, Patrick Jones, at a holiday inn in Redding, California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Meeting tape\u003c/strong>: How many people think we’ve had hacking in California? Similar number. Now the important question. How many think we had hacking in Shasta County? And that’s what’s important to me.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> In Shasta County, where we attended this presentation, the election skeptic that they brought in to speak was Jeffrey O’Donnell. He goes online by the moniker The Lone Raccoon. He is a heavier set gentleman, very thick gray beard with gray-shocked hair. He was slated to speak there in person. At the very last minute, it was revealed that he would be zooming in.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jeffrey O’Donnell\u003c/strong>: Well, hello, Shasta County. Hello! I feel like I’ve been with you in spirit for a long time…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So the election skeptics are usually the main event. And so from his house in Florida, he presented a series of plots that he alleged revealed that Shasta County elections had been manipulated, including primary elections.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jeffrey O’Donnell\u003c/strong>: Alright, this is the math portion, so we’re going to take a deep breath, okay?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> The election skeptic will get up and they’ll regularly make reference to proof that the elections are being manipulated and by that they mean that they have some sort of statistical analysis that they’ve conducted where they’ve convinced themselves that this statistical analysis is evidence of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jeffrey O’Donnell\u003c/strong>: CVR analysis, 80%, 162, fit that abnormal pattern. That’s the pattern, that’s manipulation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> And if you were to hear this person speak and just listen to the cadence and they have a slideshow and in their sort of demeanor and their affect, you would almost think you were listening to a PhD political scientists or economists present results. It has all the same sort of trappings of a empirical social science presentation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jeffrey O’Donnell\u003c/strong>: The result is the receipt of the bail-in votes is essentially random, or near enough random, to expect them to fall into your kind of random power, which is established in that matter.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> What do we know, Justin, about whether or not these statistics that they’re presenting, the stories that they are sharing, are true?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So just one general, very important point is that it is essentially impossible to diagnose fraud from a statistical analysis alone. But one of the things that we’ve learned as we’ve dug into these models is that they’re often based on either statistical misunderstandings or data misunderstandings or a really unfortunate collision of the two. And as a result, every time we’ve analyzed these claims, we found them to not offer any support that fraud is occurring or offer any indication of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> These claims your analyzes have found are not true. But what have you learned about how else they try to sort of sweeten their argument and make it more convincing?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> One of the things that we’ve noticed, though, in a comprehensive analysis of what they’re saying, so many of these are videotapes, so we’re able to ingest them, transcribe them, and analyze them en masse, is that by and large, what they are actually doing, though, is telling personal stories about their adventures evangelizing about why elections are manipulated and what should be done about it. My suspicion is that they’ve learned that the statistical analyzes aren’t really gonna land with the audience. But these personal stories where they talk about being with secretaries of states or attorneys general, or advocating with elected officials to change the way ballots are counted. This is the kind of proof that resonates with the audience.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jeffrey O’Donnell\u003c/strong>: I wanted to equip all of you with the knowledge and the confidence, right, to be true to your convictions. I mean, most of you, I suspect, knew in your heart that we had a problem long before the first piece of evidence ever came out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> I mean, yeah, it sounds like they really know how to work the crowds that they’re talking to.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> I think they’re exceptional at it. This one individual, Doug Frank, I joke he’s much better at being a professor than I am, even though he’s not a professor. His affectation, his bow tie, he really presents the image in a way that I don’t think I’m able to. And\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Coming up how false claims of voter fraud have real-world impacts on communities By the way, if you appreciate the local deep dives that we bring you on this show consider becoming a sustaining KQED member We can’t do this work without you. Just go to donate dot kqed.org/podcasts. I know your grad students sometimes join you on these trips and have actually talked to people in the audience. What have you all learned about why people show up and if they believe these claims?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So one type of person who was there is a sort of hard and true conspiracy theorist. So I sat next to a gentleman who I often describe as the final boss of conspiracy theorists. He believed every conspiracy theory you had heard. Of course he believed the earth was flat. So there’s some people who are there who I think are very immersed in a sort online conspiratorial way of thinking. But our impression was that they’re not the bulk of the people there. There’s other folks who attend these events, again, for example, at this Holiday Inn event, that are skeptical about elections are run. They’ve been told repeatedly by the president and other prominent Republicans that there’s something wrong with elections. And so they have some intuition that something’s wrong. And they’re looking for a vehicle to get active and back into politics. For example, one woman who we observed at this Holiday Inn, she was texting a friend saying that she was at this event and then said, this is my way of sort of getting back into politics. Was like, gonna join this movement and fight for a thing that she was hearing needed to be fought for. And there’s a final group of people, there’s this sort of opposition that shows up as well. So there’s people usually more aligned with the left who show up and they observe what’s going on sometimes offer critical questions at these events.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Meeting tape\u003c/strong>: Have a nice day. You’re hosting a liar. Have a Nice day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> Everyday folks can’t possibly track the statistics. The folks who present these statistics make it quite difficult. They’re not publishing papers, laying out their model. We’ve had to piece it together across many videos. And so instead they can rely upon these cues and you can really, I think, start to feel sympathy for these folks in these places because the kind of cues that they get in these meetings would indicate that perhaps this person has really uncovered something.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Douglas Frank\u003c/strong>: What I did is I studied every county in California because California was a control case for me. I’m a scientist. I set up control studies. That’s what we do.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So for example, when Doug Frank gets up to speak, he makes the claim that he’s a Nobel Prize nominee in chemistry. That’s, just to be clear, not a thing that anyone could ever claim. Nobel Prize nominations are confidential for 50 years. He claims it happened in 1990. We’re still well within that confidential region there. He also claims to have published 60 peer-reviewed papers and to be a world leading physicist. So if someone with that pedigree stands up and tells you.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Douglas Frank\u003c/strong>: I spent a month of my life last year analyzing every ballot passed in this state for the last 20 years. Why would I do such a thing? You know, I’m a masochist, right? I guess I’m scientist. I like numbers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> I’ve uncovered a statistical model that proves your county’s elections are being manipulated. And by the way, I’m going to tell you a lot of stories about positions of people who are in power who have listened to me, or people who were in power, who said they were going to listen to me and then backed out at the last minute because some cabal influenced them. I think a reasonable person could hear all that and think, perhaps there’s something here.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Yeah it could be convincing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> Could be pretty convincing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Douglas Frank\u003c/strong>: Placer County and they were so mad at me because it turns out in their county I can predict the number of Republicans that voted in every precinct. I can predict the numbers of Democrats that voted every precint. I could predict the number of others that voted at every precinc. But to the one or two out of hundreds I can predict that accurately and I was using them as an example so first let me try it out…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> True or not, this kind of messaging can have real consequences. And I wanna stick with this Shasta County example. How have you seen these claims impact the community there?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> Yeah, there’s been a big movement in Shasta County to change the way their elections are being run. So Shasta county attempted to just have hand count ballots only. California state legislature had to pass a law to say you can’t actually do that. So there’s money and litigation and time spent. And there’s also a very personal toll here on these people who are, I would describe. The heroes of American democracy, election administrators. So Shasta County had a fantastic election administrator, Kathy Darling-Allen. She was fantastic at her job, incredibly dedicated to her community, but this movement began to allege that she was involved in various conspiracies to manipulate the elections in Shasta county, or at least was standing to the side while those manipulations occurred. And as a result, there was a real physical toll on her. So it harmed her health. She ended up retiring because she was going into heart failure. And now there’s a new individual who’s running Shasta County’s elections, who is a well-known election skeptic in charge of their elections. And what we’ve seen from his work there, fortunately, he has little discretion in what could be done. There’s nice parameters from the law. But there’s some evidence that things have been running not as well without Kathy Darling Allen. And there’s been a bit more confusion.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> What have you learned about what it takes to convince people, otherwise, to believe in our elections?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> One of the very best things you could do is to volunteer at a polling place to help tabulate ballots, open envelopes, work with your local election administrators. You’re gonna see that this is a process with a large number of safeguards filled with people who are working very hard, who have a really inherent dedication to American democracy as it’s practiced on the ground. And it’s not comprised of people who are partisan or really trying to manipulate the results in a particular way. So just seeing, again, these heroes of American democracy as its practice in action seems to be the best way to restore faith in our elections. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> My last question for you, Justin, another part of your research process is that sometimes you’ll actually present a rebuttal to the election fraud claims that are presented in some of these rural, more conservative counties. I wanna end by asking you, what motivates you to do that and to keep pushing back against fraud, even maybe if sometimes it feels in vain?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> I think as professors and as academics, there is a tendency to think about problems at the broadest scale. When I think in reality, one solution to this is that we need to deploy people to these places, to talk to them, to meet them where they are, to understand how they interact with the kind of arguments we make, to see that the people making these arguments are real people from real places. I often describe it perhaps a bit pejoratively as the sort of knife fight of democracy, where you’re sort of, you’re in it. You’re rebutting, you have, you are talking to these folks. It’s very one-to-one. It’s hard to scale this. But I think very important for even convincing a small number of people who might be on the margin that there are real reasons to trust American elections. I don’t see a way we’ll get out of this with broad national declarations. There’s not gonna be, in my opinion, really well-crafted advertising campaign that we could just deploy everywhere. I think the solution is that we have to engage folks where they are. And absolutely the solution’s going to be local.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Well, Justin, it’s such a pleasure having you on. Thank you so much. Thank you. As we head into election week, Justin’s research feels more timely than ever. The Trump administration has been ramping up its efforts to find voter fraud in California, demanding that the state set aside the ballots of thousands of registered voters. They accuse of not being US citizens. They’ve even threatened local elections officials with subpoenas and criminal charges if they don’t comply. They’ve claimed without proof that California elections are rigged in Democrats’ favor because of non-citizen votes. Justin says that once the results come in, there’s sure to be even more criticism.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> But voters can have an assurance that California elections are secure. It’s relatively easy to access the ballot and that there are many opportunities for those who want to vote to vote and many ways in which those who are not allowed to vote are prevented from voting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> That was Justin Grimmer, a professor of political science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. If you’re doing some last minute voting this week, be sure to check out KQED’s Voter Guide, which has a bunch of handy info on all the statewide and local races. kqed.org/voter guide is the link. Again, that’s kqed.org/voterguide. This conversation with Justin was pitched and produced by producer Gabriela Glueck. It was cut down and edited by Pauline Bartolone. Additional production support from me. Music courtesy of Audio Network and APM. If you wanna get in touch with us here at The Bay, feel free to send us an email. We’re at thebayatkqed.org. Support for The Bay is provided in part by the Osher Production Fund. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Happy election week, everybody. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cbr>\u003cem>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So it was the summer of 2021. We had just published our paper about the Trump campaign’s claims about the 2020 election and a reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer called me. He said, I want to let you know that there is this kind of movement happening in Pennsylvania. There’s someone alleging that every election in our state is being manipulated. And the reason you should care is that this person is talking to our state legislature. And so in 2021, we began assembling the claims that this person, Doug Frank, was making. It became clear to us very quickly that there were other people in this space who were making similar sorts of claims. And it also became very clear that the claims were outlandish. They’re sort of, like, very quickly, we noticed a sort of statistical flaw in the argument. But nevertheless, the claims were popular, people seemed to be adopting them, people are very responsive to them.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> We could think about two parts to this movement. One part of the movement is a national movement of almost professional election skeptics who tour the country and make the claim that every election everywhere is being stolen. At the same time, they’re inspiring local movements of individuals who hear what these election skeptic have to say and then form groups of people who wanna investigate it themselves. And those individuals will begin an investigation where they see if they can find phantom voters or individuals who should not be on the voter file or they think should not on the vote file. So it’s a movement that’s happening both nationally and then very locally as these groups get together.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> My general impression is that they go where they are invited. And so this would explain why they end up in relatively conservative places, because individuals may learn about them from online social media like Telegram or from a sort of right-wing version of YouTube called Rumble will post their videos. So they learn about then. And when they’re invited to these places, it’ll either be local political activists who are interested in having them speak. And sometimes it’s entrepreneurial politicians. So we’ve seen both, for example, in Shasta County, political activists have helped support bringing these individuals in, and also some elected officials have supported it as well.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cbr>The Trump administration has been ramping up efforts to find voter fraud in California. Claims of voter fraud can have real-world consequences for communities. Today, Stanford Political Science Professor Justin Grimmer tells us about a group of traveling election skeptics who target mostly rural, conservative communities to spread their claims of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Episode Transcript\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. Justin Grimmer is obsessed with voter fraud. He’s a professor of political science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. And he spent a lot of time researching elections. So when Donald Trump began making claims of voter fraud and manipulation after the 2020 election, Justin and his collaborators made it their mission to get to the bottom of it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> And so I, along with one of my post-docs and a collaborator, we began investigating these claims in gory, gory details, dove into the data to figure out what they were claiming and what evidence basis they had to make those claims. And what we found was those claims were lacking really any evidentiary basis at all, or were pointing out to patterns in the world that weren’t really evidence of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Since then, claims of election fraud have become dangerously common, and Justin has kept pace, diving into these claims one by one. They’ve taken him all over the country to follow a growing movement of traveling election skeptics who visit mostly rural conservative communities to spread their claims of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> This sort of campaign says every election is subject to this manipulation. And that is a troubling allegation for democracy. It’s a troubling allegation if you’re an election administrator in those places.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Today, inside the movement of election fraud evangelizers and the real world impacts it has on the communities they visit. When did you first get wind of this movement of people?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So it was the summer of 2021. We had just published our paper about the Trump campaign’s claims about the 2020 election and a reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer called me. He said, I want to let you know that there is this kind of movement happening in Pennsylvania. There’s someone alleging that every election in our state is being manipulated. And the reason you should care is that this person is talking to our state legislature. And so in 2021, we began assembling the claims that this person, Doug Frank, was making. It became clear to us very quickly that there were other people in this space who were making similar sorts of claims. And it also became very clear that the claims were outlandish. They’re sort of, like, very quickly, we noticed a sort of statistical flaw in the argument. But nevertheless, the claims were popular, people seemed to be adopting them, people are very responsive to them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> What you’re talking about is this research that you’re doing on specifically this sort of movement of people who really, it seems like, target these sort of rural, more conservative areas to spread these claims of voter fraud. Tell me a little bit more about this movement. Who are these people and what exactly are they doing?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> We could think about two parts to this movement. One part of the movement is a national movement of almost professional election skeptics who tour the country and make the claim that every election everywhere is being stolen. At the same time, they’re inspiring local movements of individuals who hear what these election skeptic have to say and then form groups of people who wanna investigate it themselves. And those individuals will begin an investigation where they see if they can find phantom voters or individuals who should not be on the voter file or they think should not on the vote file. So it’s a movement that’s happening both nationally and then very locally as these groups get together.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> And how did you go about actually studying this group of people?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So what we decided to do was to start showing up where the election skeptics were presenting and talking to the people who were there, figuring out what it is about the movement that they find compelling, why do they think this argument is true and what sort of evidence are they basing their beliefs on?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> So let’s talk about how this sort of plays out on the ground. For these sort of election fraud evangelizers, Justin, I mean, what is their MO, and how do they end up in places like Shasta County?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> My general impression is that they go where they are invited. And so this would explain why they end up in relatively conservative places, because individuals may learn about them from online social media like Telegram or from a sort of right-wing version of YouTube called Rumble will post their videos. So they learn about then. And when they’re invited to these places, it’ll either be local political activists who are interested in having them speak. And sometimes it’s entrepreneurial politicians. So we’ve seen both, for example, in Shasta County, political activists have helped support bringing these individuals in, and also some elected officials have supported it as well.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> And who is their audience? I mean, are these like town halls? Are these people who maybe otherwise don’t believe in these things, but are sitting there to be convinced?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So one thing that they love to do, these election evangelizers or election skeptics, is they’ll go to public comment at county meetings. That’s often a prelude to those skeptics being invited back to give a longer presentation at the county meeting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Meeting tape\u003c/strong>: I want to see some hands as to how many people think in the United States there’s been some hacking with our computer system. Let’s see some…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> In parallel, when they make these visits, they’ll also do night time meetings. Sometimes they’ll be held in churches, sometimes in public forums. We attended a speech by a different election, a skeptic in Shasta County. It was hosted by a former county supervisor, Patrick Jones, at a holiday inn in Redding, California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Meeting tape\u003c/strong>: How many people think we’ve had hacking in California? Similar number. Now the important question. How many think we had hacking in Shasta County? And that’s what’s important to me.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> In Shasta County, where we attended this presentation, the election skeptic that they brought in to speak was Jeffrey O’Donnell. He goes online by the moniker The Lone Raccoon. He is a heavier set gentleman, very thick gray beard with gray-shocked hair. He was slated to speak there in person. At the very last minute, it was revealed that he would be zooming in.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jeffrey O’Donnell\u003c/strong>: Well, hello, Shasta County. Hello! I feel like I’ve been with you in spirit for a long time…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So the election skeptics are usually the main event. And so from his house in Florida, he presented a series of plots that he alleged revealed that Shasta County elections had been manipulated, including primary elections.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jeffrey O’Donnell\u003c/strong>: Alright, this is the math portion, so we’re going to take a deep breath, okay?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> The election skeptic will get up and they’ll regularly make reference to proof that the elections are being manipulated and by that they mean that they have some sort of statistical analysis that they’ve conducted where they’ve convinced themselves that this statistical analysis is evidence of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jeffrey O’Donnell\u003c/strong>: CVR analysis, 80%, 162, fit that abnormal pattern. That’s the pattern, that’s manipulation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> And if you were to hear this person speak and just listen to the cadence and they have a slideshow and in their sort of demeanor and their affect, you would almost think you were listening to a PhD political scientists or economists present results. It has all the same sort of trappings of a empirical social science presentation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jeffrey O’Donnell\u003c/strong>: The result is the receipt of the bail-in votes is essentially random, or near enough random, to expect them to fall into your kind of random power, which is established in that matter.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> What do we know, Justin, about whether or not these statistics that they’re presenting, the stories that they are sharing, are true?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So just one general, very important point is that it is essentially impossible to diagnose fraud from a statistical analysis alone. But one of the things that we’ve learned as we’ve dug into these models is that they’re often based on either statistical misunderstandings or data misunderstandings or a really unfortunate collision of the two. And as a result, every time we’ve analyzed these claims, we found them to not offer any support that fraud is occurring or offer any indication of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> These claims your analyzes have found are not true. But what have you learned about how else they try to sort of sweeten their argument and make it more convincing?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> One of the things that we’ve noticed, though, in a comprehensive analysis of what they’re saying, so many of these are videotapes, so we’re able to ingest them, transcribe them, and analyze them en masse, is that by and large, what they are actually doing, though, is telling personal stories about their adventures evangelizing about why elections are manipulated and what should be done about it. My suspicion is that they’ve learned that the statistical analyzes aren’t really gonna land with the audience. But these personal stories where they talk about being with secretaries of states or attorneys general, or advocating with elected officials to change the way ballots are counted. This is the kind of proof that resonates with the audience.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jeffrey O’Donnell\u003c/strong>: I wanted to equip all of you with the knowledge and the confidence, right, to be true to your convictions. I mean, most of you, I suspect, knew in your heart that we had a problem long before the first piece of evidence ever came out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> I mean, yeah, it sounds like they really know how to work the crowds that they’re talking to.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> I think they’re exceptional at it. This one individual, Doug Frank, I joke he’s much better at being a professor than I am, even though he’s not a professor. His affectation, his bow tie, he really presents the image in a way that I don’t think I’m able to. And\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Coming up how false claims of voter fraud have real-world impacts on communities By the way, if you appreciate the local deep dives that we bring you on this show consider becoming a sustaining KQED member We can’t do this work without you. Just go to donate dot kqed.org/podcasts. I know your grad students sometimes join you on these trips and have actually talked to people in the audience. What have you all learned about why people show up and if they believe these claims?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So one type of person who was there is a sort of hard and true conspiracy theorist. So I sat next to a gentleman who I often describe as the final boss of conspiracy theorists. He believed every conspiracy theory you had heard. Of course he believed the earth was flat. So there’s some people who are there who I think are very immersed in a sort online conspiratorial way of thinking. But our impression was that they’re not the bulk of the people there. There’s other folks who attend these events, again, for example, at this Holiday Inn event, that are skeptical about elections are run. They’ve been told repeatedly by the president and other prominent Republicans that there’s something wrong with elections. And so they have some intuition that something’s wrong. And they’re looking for a vehicle to get active and back into politics. For example, one woman who we observed at this Holiday Inn, she was texting a friend saying that she was at this event and then said, this is my way of sort of getting back into politics. Was like, gonna join this movement and fight for a thing that she was hearing needed to be fought for. And there’s a final group of people, there’s this sort of opposition that shows up as well. So there’s people usually more aligned with the left who show up and they observe what’s going on sometimes offer critical questions at these events.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Meeting tape\u003c/strong>: Have a nice day. You’re hosting a liar. Have a Nice day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> Everyday folks can’t possibly track the statistics. The folks who present these statistics make it quite difficult. They’re not publishing papers, laying out their model. We’ve had to piece it together across many videos. And so instead they can rely upon these cues and you can really, I think, start to feel sympathy for these folks in these places because the kind of cues that they get in these meetings would indicate that perhaps this person has really uncovered something.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Douglas Frank\u003c/strong>: What I did is I studied every county in California because California was a control case for me. I’m a scientist. I set up control studies. That’s what we do.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> So for example, when Doug Frank gets up to speak, he makes the claim that he’s a Nobel Prize nominee in chemistry. That’s, just to be clear, not a thing that anyone could ever claim. Nobel Prize nominations are confidential for 50 years. He claims it happened in 1990. We’re still well within that confidential region there. He also claims to have published 60 peer-reviewed papers and to be a world leading physicist. So if someone with that pedigree stands up and tells you.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Douglas Frank\u003c/strong>: I spent a month of my life last year analyzing every ballot passed in this state for the last 20 years. Why would I do such a thing? You know, I’m a masochist, right? I guess I’m scientist. I like numbers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> I’ve uncovered a statistical model that proves your county’s elections are being manipulated. And by the way, I’m going to tell you a lot of stories about positions of people who are in power who have listened to me, or people who were in power, who said they were going to listen to me and then backed out at the last minute because some cabal influenced them. I think a reasonable person could hear all that and think, perhaps there’s something here.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Yeah it could be convincing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> Could be pretty convincing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Douglas Frank\u003c/strong>: Placer County and they were so mad at me because it turns out in their county I can predict the number of Republicans that voted in every precinct. I can predict the numbers of Democrats that voted every precint. I could predict the number of others that voted at every precinc. But to the one or two out of hundreds I can predict that accurately and I was using them as an example so first let me try it out…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> True or not, this kind of messaging can have real consequences. And I wanna stick with this Shasta County example. How have you seen these claims impact the community there?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> Yeah, there’s been a big movement in Shasta County to change the way their elections are being run. So Shasta county attempted to just have hand count ballots only. California state legislature had to pass a law to say you can’t actually do that. So there’s money and litigation and time spent. And there’s also a very personal toll here on these people who are, I would describe. The heroes of American democracy, election administrators. So Shasta County had a fantastic election administrator, Kathy Darling-Allen. She was fantastic at her job, incredibly dedicated to her community, but this movement began to allege that she was involved in various conspiracies to manipulate the elections in Shasta county, or at least was standing to the side while those manipulations occurred. And as a result, there was a real physical toll on her. So it harmed her health. She ended up retiring because she was going into heart failure. And now there’s a new individual who’s running Shasta County’s elections, who is a well-known election skeptic in charge of their elections. And what we’ve seen from his work there, fortunately, he has little discretion in what could be done. There’s nice parameters from the law. But there’s some evidence that things have been running not as well without Kathy Darling Allen. And there’s been a bit more confusion.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> What have you learned about what it takes to convince people, otherwise, to believe in our elections?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> One of the very best things you could do is to volunteer at a polling place to help tabulate ballots, open envelopes, work with your local election administrators. You’re gonna see that this is a process with a large number of safeguards filled with people who are working very hard, who have a really inherent dedication to American democracy as it’s practiced on the ground. And it’s not comprised of people who are partisan or really trying to manipulate the results in a particular way. So just seeing, again, these heroes of American democracy as its practice in action seems to be the best way to restore faith in our elections. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> My last question for you, Justin, another part of your research process is that sometimes you’ll actually present a rebuttal to the election fraud claims that are presented in some of these rural, more conservative counties. I wanna end by asking you, what motivates you to do that and to keep pushing back against fraud, even maybe if sometimes it feels in vain?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> I think as professors and as academics, there is a tendency to think about problems at the broadest scale. When I think in reality, one solution to this is that we need to deploy people to these places, to talk to them, to meet them where they are, to understand how they interact with the kind of arguments we make, to see that the people making these arguments are real people from real places. I often describe it perhaps a bit pejoratively as the sort of knife fight of democracy, where you’re sort of, you’re in it. You’re rebutting, you have, you are talking to these folks. It’s very one-to-one. It’s hard to scale this. But I think very important for even convincing a small number of people who might be on the margin that there are real reasons to trust American elections. I don’t see a way we’ll get out of this with broad national declarations. There’s not gonna be, in my opinion, really well-crafted advertising campaign that we could just deploy everywhere. I think the solution is that we have to engage folks where they are. And absolutely the solution’s going to be local.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Well, Justin, it’s such a pleasure having you on. Thank you so much. Thank you. As we head into election week, Justin’s research feels more timely than ever. The Trump administration has been ramping up its efforts to find voter fraud in California, demanding that the state set aside the ballots of thousands of registered voters. They accuse of not being US citizens. They’ve even threatened local elections officials with subpoenas and criminal charges if they don’t comply. They’ve claimed without proof that California elections are rigged in Democrats’ favor because of non-citizen votes. Justin says that once the results come in, there’s sure to be even more criticism.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Justin Grimmer:\u003c/strong> But voters can have an assurance that California elections are secure. It’s relatively easy to access the ballot and that there are many opportunities for those who want to vote to vote and many ways in which those who are not allowed to vote are prevented from voting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> That was Justin Grimmer, a professor of political science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. If you’re doing some last minute voting this week, be sure to check out KQED’s Voter Guide, which has a bunch of handy info on all the statewide and local races. kqed.org/voter guide is the link. Again, that’s kqed.org/voterguide. This conversation with Justin was pitched and produced by producer Gabriela Glueck. It was cut down and edited by Pauline Bartolone. Additional production support from me. Music courtesy of Audio Network and APM. If you wanna get in touch with us here at The Bay, feel free to send us an email. We’re at thebayatkqed.org. Support for The Bay is provided in part by the Osher Production Fund. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Happy election week, everybody. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cbr>\u003cem>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, September 24, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>A federal grand jury has subpoenaed Shasta County’s registrar of voters to report to Sacramento on Thursday. They’ve asked him to bring ballots he seized from the June election. The subpoenas came after Clint Curtis, the registrar, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/shasta-county-elections-fbi-ballot-investigation/\">locked up stacks of those ballots,\u003c/a> saying they looked and smelled suspicious. Curtis counters that he doesn’t have to bring ballots to Sacramento because the FBI is already on the case. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The group behind a ballot measure to reform California’s landmark environmental protection law is rejecting claims it will make it easier to build data centers. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Residents in Riverside County are raising the alarm on a small data center project being proposed for the fairgrounds near Lake Perris. But officials say the proposal is still in its early stages.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/shasta-county-elections-fbi-ballot-investigation/\">FBI visits California MAGA stronghold after elections chief alleges ballot stuffing\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>FBI agents paid a visit to Shasta County last week after Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis claimed ballots looked, felt and smelled funny as workers were counting them in the June primary, an election he happened to lose. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>They visited the room in the Shasta County elections office where Curtis had locked away ballots from the June election in anticipation of the FBI’s eventual arrival. The agents, Curtis said, inspected the boxes holding them as part of what he claims is an election-fraud investigation. Curtis said a federal grand jury subpoena ordered him to bring the ballots to court in Sacramento this week. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The FBI’s inspection came after other Shasta County officials also urged the federal and state government to investigate, but for a different reason: To prove Curtis’ claims about widespread election fraud wrong. “The county condemns the conduct of the Clerk-Registrar of Voters and invites all relevant state and federal agencies to review the allegations he has made and to proactively investigate his official actions and practices as Shasta County’s elections official,” officials said \u003ca href=\"https://www.shastacounty.gov/media/85046\">in a statement last month\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The extraordinary level of federal involvement in the heavily conservative county a two-and-a-half hour drive north of Sacramento comes as Trump and his MAGA movement hunt for evidence of widespread election fraud that experts say doesn’t exist. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, September 24, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>A federal grand jury has subpoenaed Shasta County’s registrar of voters to report to Sacramento on Thursday. They’ve asked him to bring ballots he seized from the June election. The subpoenas came after Clint Curtis, the registrar, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/shasta-county-elections-fbi-ballot-investigation/\">locked up stacks of those ballots,\u003c/a> saying they looked and smelled suspicious. Curtis counters that he doesn’t have to bring ballots to Sacramento because the FBI is already on the case. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The group behind a ballot measure to reform California’s landmark environmental protection law is rejecting claims it will make it easier to build data centers. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Residents in Riverside County are raising the alarm on a small data center project being proposed for the fairgrounds near Lake Perris. But officials say the proposal is still in its early stages.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/shasta-county-elections-fbi-ballot-investigation/\">FBI visits California MAGA stronghold after elections chief alleges ballot stuffing\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>FBI agents paid a visit to Shasta County last week after Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis claimed ballots looked, felt and smelled funny as workers were counting them in the June primary, an election he happened to lose. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>They visited the room in the Shasta County elections office where Curtis had locked away ballots from the June election in anticipation of the FBI’s eventual arrival. The agents, Curtis said, inspected the boxes holding them as part of what he claims is an election-fraud investigation. Curtis said a federal grand jury subpoena ordered him to bring the ballots to court in Sacramento this week. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The FBI’s inspection came after other Shasta County officials also urged the federal and state government to investigate, but for a different reason: To prove Curtis’ claims about widespread election fraud wrong. “The county condemns the conduct of the Clerk-Registrar of Voters and invites all relevant state and federal agencies to review the allegations he has made and to proactively investigate his official actions and practices as Shasta County’s elections official,” officials said \u003ca href=\"https://www.shastacounty.gov/media/85046\">in a statement last month\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The extraordinary level of federal involvement in the heavily conservative county a two-and-a-half hour drive north of Sacramento comes as Trump and his MAGA movement hunt for evidence of widespread election fraud that experts say doesn’t exist. It follows a handful of cases this year of federal and MAGA-aligned local authorities seizing ballots from past elections in California and in other states. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After he lost the June election, Curtis, a longtime conspiracy theorist and election denier whose final official act will be to oversee November’s election in Shasta, began claiming some of the mail-in ballots that arrived at the elections office seemed off. “We had a lot of weird ballots coming in, so we have the whole counterfeit ballot thing, which is what the feds are looking at, which is essentially the fact that the paper is wrong,” Curtis said in an hourlong interview with CalMatters in the Redding elections office. “And it smelled wrong before, but now it doesn’t smell anymore. Two months have gone by, but when we did our first initial — you know, I had a dozen people say ‘Something’s wrong with this.’ When you’re flipping through ballots, you kind of get used to the thickness and the size, and suddenly you hit one that’s, you know, considerably thicker.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Curtis claims the wrong paper issue is possible proof of something he and other MAGA conspiracy theorists have long claimed happens regularly in California and other states with mail-in voting: Nefarious actors are fixing elections by stuffing fake ballots into drop-off boxes. Election experts have a word for such claims: Nonsense. They say there are so many safeguards in place to verify signatures and scan ballots that it would be nearly impossible to forge huge numbers of ballots and not get immediately caught. Sonni Waknin, an attorney at the UCLA Voting Rights Project, used her own experience to highlight how well California’s safeguards work. She said one of her ballots in a past election was flagged at a California elections office because the signature she used to register to vote didn’t appear to match the one she signed on her ballot. Elections officials reached out to her to verify it was her signature, and she was required to fill out a form to declare it was indeed Waknin who filled out her ballot. “You get caught when it’s not even forged,” she said. “When people try to commit fraud, they get caught.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Curtis said FBI agents showed up last week at the election office to inspect the room where he’d stored ballots. Curtis had a padlock installed and had hung “Keep Out” signs on the door in anticipation of an investigation. The FBI agents brought bolt cutters to get in the room. Curtis said representatives from the California secretary of state’s office were also there observing. He said the federal authorities didn’t take any ballots with them. They left a green evidence cable lock marked with the word “SECURED” where Curtis’ padlock once hung. Curtis said the FBI didn’t tell him what they were looking for. “I just showed them what we had,” he said. “The FBI never says anything to you, by the way … it’s information in and nothing out.” Curtis says a federal grand jury in Sacramento ordered him to bring boxes containing the ballots but on Monday he said he was told he no longer needs to, though he’s not yet received a written notice that his subpoena is canceled. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100915/housing-fix-or-data-center-loophole-this-ballot-measure-would-overhaul-ceqa\">Could Prop 45 make it easier to build data centers?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Proposition 45 on the November ballot would reform the California Environmental Quality Act, also known as CEQA. Proponents argue the measure would help with the state’s affordability crisis by speeding up housing construction. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, public polling shows support for the measure has tanked in the last few months as critics argue the measure would make it easier to build data centers, which are deeply unpopular with voters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The measure is sponsored by the state Chamber of Commerce, which argues it will help expedite housing construction. CalChamber CEO Jennifer Barrera spoke with KQED. “The opposition is raising it to scare voters. They’re butchering the definition of broadband to try and make data centers fit into it, and it just doesn’t fit,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Polling from the Public Policy Institute of California shows support for the measure among likely voters dropped from 73% in July to 49% last week.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Proposed data center project raises concerns in Riverside County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Residents in Riverside County are raising the alarm on a small data center project being proposed for the fairgrounds near Lake Perris. But officials said the proposal is still in its early stages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last month, Global Stack, an infrastructure company, got approval to explore the construction of a small data center for emergency response. It would sit at the Southern California Fair and Events Center at Lake Perris. As a public benefit, the Santa Ana-based company agreed to build a large parking structure for public events and a helipad.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On its website, Global Stack said it aims to build similar data centers on fairgrounds across the state. The company didn’t respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Russell Vanderberg, the CEO of the SoCal Fair and Events Center, said construction hasn’t been approved. “We met with the representatives of Global Stack and decided to sign a non-binding memorandum of understanding,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But residents who live nearby say they didn’t know about the non-binding memorandum. And they’re concerned about data centers water and energy use. This comes as the city of Perris’ planning commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2026-09-17/perris-planning-commission-recommends-data-center-ban-as-residents-oppose-state-fairgrounds-project\">is recommending a citywide ban on data centers. \u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/whatmatters\">WhatMatters\u003c/a> to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last summer, siblings Roselie and John Aiello decided it was time for Roselie to leave her home of 73 years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Raised on a cattle ranch in the small town of Mount Shasta, Roselie spent her life working as a butcher and handling animals, assisting her father until his death. When her three brothers moved away, she stayed at home on the ranch, with its winding dirt roads and green pastures. But over the years, the hard manual labor left her bones weak and her back curved, slowing her pace. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>John moved back to the ranch in far \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/northern-california\">Northern California\u003c/a> to take care of Roselie, who needed some assistance with showering and getting dressed. But these tasks began to weigh on John as he balanced his career as a writer with tending to the land, which was getting more difficult for Roselie to navigate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The two siblings made a decision: Roselie, who qualified for Medicaid, would move into assisted living. John would find an appropriate place for her to live and receive care.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But when John tried to apply for assisted living benefits on his sister’s behalf, he found that Medi-Cal — California’s version of Medicaid — does not offer a waiver to pay for assisted living care in Siskiyou County, nor does it in 42 others across the state. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/long-term-care-alternatives-home-and-community-based-service-options/assisted-living-waiver/\">15 California counties\u003c/a>, most of them urban, offer this option.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This has created geographic disparity that gives aging adults in urban areas more options for care than those in rural areas, pushing Northern California seniors like Roselie Aiello into nursing homes or out of their communities, not because they need that level of care, but because they can’t afford to pay out of pocket for assisted living. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You’re wasting money by dumping somebody like my sister in a skilled nursing facility and lessening her quality of life and her chance at doing better,” John said. “By doing this, it makes no fundamental sense.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12098658\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Roselie Aiello at Sundial Assisted Living in Shasta County on March 25, 2026. \u003cbr> (Jessica Blough for CalMatters)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12098659\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Roselie Aiello at Sundial Assisted Living in Shasta County on March 25, 2026. (Jessica Blough for CalMatters)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the coming decade, many more Californians may face the same predicament, given that one in four will be older than 60. As the state prepares for this explosion in the older adult population, it is prioritizing the ability to age in community-based settings like homes or assisted living facilities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But availability of assisted living options varies county to county and is based on decisions by the various managed care providers contracted to deliver healthcare to the state’s lowest-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There’s not a lot of options to begin with in rural counties. You take (the assisted living waiver) off a table, which already has a history of a long waiting list, and the options are pretty bleak,” said Maura Gibney, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr />\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PCZuA/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Partnership HealthPlan, which Roselie Aiello is enrolled in, contracts with the state to provide coverage to almost a million Californians on Medi-Cal, making it the largest Medi-Cal managed care plan in Northern California. It is the only Medi-Cal managed care plan available in a separate set of 15 California counties. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Managed care providers are encouraged, but not required, to offer as many “\u003ca href=\"https://calaim.dhcs.ca.gov/pages/community-supports\">community supports\u003c/a>” as they can, Tessa Outhyse, a spokesperson for the California Department of Health Care Services, said in an email. CalAIM, the state’s multiyear initiative to overhaul Medi-Cal, includes community supports such as assistance transitioning to an assisted living facility as well as transitional rent, caregiver respite and personal care services. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These services are intended to offer healthcare options to Medi-Cal members before their conditions escalate to needing more serious care, therefore saving money. Even when CalAIM’s current waivers expire at the end of the year, the community supports benefits will continue through the managed care plans. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When determining which supports to offer, managed care plans take into consideration provider availability and local capacity to offer care, Outhyse said. Partnership chose not to offer assisted living support based on financial factors and a lack of appropriate facilities in the rural areas where it provides care, said Dustin Lyda, spokesperson for the organization. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lyda said any change in what the organization offers would require proof that assisted living facilities would be safer and healthier for members than nursing homes. But he acknowledged that options are more limited for rural members. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There’s definitely a lot more work that we need to do on our end to navigate the more rural areas,” Lyda said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hitting-roadblocks\">Hitting roadblocks\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When John Aiello heard about assisted living benefits through Medi-Cal, he saw it as the perfect match for his sister’s needs. He knew that he likely would have to move her out of Siskiyou County, where there was only one facility for Medi-Cal recipients, a nursing home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roselie had spent some time at an assisted living facility in neighboring Shasta County, which they saw as a better fit. But Partnership didn’t offer assisted living as a community support in that county. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Instead, the provider offered Roselie a waiver to go into assisted living in Sonoma County, which is about five hours from her home. The Aiellos turned that down, thinking it would not be good for Roselie. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you remove her totally from a family contact, she would not be thriving right now. She needs to see family,” John Aiello said. “When there were resources available that fit her needs in Redding — that’s the closest point to her home county — why do I need to move her to Oakland, to Los Angeles, to San Diego?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Over the course of nine months, John sent dozens of emails and spent hours on phone calls to get Partnership HealthPlan to cover Roselie’s placement in assisted living. He had the support of her doctor and a spot for Roselie at the residence in Shasta County. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The process was so intense and frustrating that it drove a wedge between him and his sister in their final months of living together. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“He was doing all of this to help me,” Roselie said. “Where was it going to end?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"encouraged-or-required\">Encouraged or required? \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Most people prefer community-based services over skilled nursing care, which is \u003ca href=\"https://heller.brandeis.edu/community-living-policy/research-policy/publications/pdfs/briefs/hcbs-improve-outcomes-and-reduce-costs.pdf\">generally more expensive\u003c/a>. But nursing home beds are in short supply and should be reserved for those who truly need them, Gibney said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We really try to help people look at the other options that exist for remaining in the community,” Gibney said. “You’re going to have better health outcomes, better quality of care, if you can stay in the community and out of an institutional setting.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Research indicates that while assisted living may provide better outcomes for some, people in assisted living are more likely than nursing home residents to be hospitalized, which can drive up costs, said Dr. Kenneth Lam, a geriatrician and assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The evidence suggests that it’s a trade-off,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Contracts for managed care plans are not competitively bid, Outhyse said. And potential contractors aren’t asked to include specific community supports, such as assisted living, in their managed care plans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Whether a plan chooses to provide specific community supports is not a factor in contract renewal, which focuses instead on overall compliance with state and federal performance standards,” Outhyse wrote in the email.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Partnership’s contract with the state was set to expire in December, but will be extended until 2029 because the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/Pages/ManagedCarePlanProcurementUpdate.aspx\">delayed\u003c/a> the process of soliciting managed care contracts. Lyda said Partnership is facing increasing demand for its community supports — which mainly address social needs, such as housing and food security — and for assisted living benefits. But even people in counties where the managed care provider offers an assisted living benefit can have a long wait for placement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After years of constant increases, the number of Californians receiving an assisted living waiver for the first time dropped at the beginning of 2025, though the waitlist continued to climb. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By September, the number of Californians waiting for a waiver had surpassed the number of people who were being supported by it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr />\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/kH9D7\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gibney said that Medi-Cal members are often encouraged to get on the waitlist before applying for assisted living funding, which could contribute to the long wait. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Older adults might spend months on a waitlist, only to be told that they are ineligible for assisted living coverage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of shifting sand, that’s what people are finding themselves in the middle of,” Lam said. “They’re being told that they get to choose, but it’s a complex choice.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-new-home\">A new home\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In March, Roselie moved into her new home, Sundial Assisted Living, the Shasta County facility where she had previously spent some time. Two months earlier, Partnership had informed the Aiellos that it would cover Roselie’s assisted living care. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Partnership offered Roselie early access to a pilot program that launched on July 1, which extends the assisted living options to select members of the network. There will be no open application process, but members can ask to be considered or referred through a healthcare provider. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The goal is to discover if offering the assisted living option will provide better health outcomes at a lower price.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Success would also be having these individuals being able to continue to receive care within their community setting, being in their home,” Lyda said. “We know that that is more impactful to health than being completely taken out of a familiar area.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The adjustment has not been easy for Roselie. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/whatmatters\">WhatMatters\u003c/a> to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last summer, siblings Roselie and John Aiello decided it was time for Roselie to leave her home of 73 years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Raised on a cattle ranch in the small town of Mount Shasta, Roselie spent her life working as a butcher and handling animals, assisting her father until his death. When her three brothers moved away, she stayed at home on the ranch, with its winding dirt roads and green pastures. But over the years, the hard manual labor left her bones weak and her back curved, slowing her pace. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>John moved back to the ranch in far \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/northern-california\">Northern California\u003c/a> to take care of Roselie, who needed some assistance with showering and getting dressed. But these tasks began to weigh on John as he balanced his career as a writer with tending to the land, which was getting more difficult for Roselie to navigate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The two siblings made a decision: Roselie, who qualified for Medicaid, would move into assisted living. John would find an appropriate place for her to live and receive care.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But when John tried to apply for assisted living benefits on his sister’s behalf, he found that Medi-Cal — California’s version of Medicaid — does not offer a waiver to pay for assisted living care in Siskiyou County, nor does it in 42 others across the state. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/long-term-care-alternatives-home-and-community-based-service-options/assisted-living-waiver/\">15 California counties\u003c/a>, most of them urban, offer this option.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This has created geographic disparity that gives aging adults in urban areas more options for care than those in rural areas, pushing Northern California seniors like Roselie Aiello into nursing homes or out of their communities, not because they need that level of care, but because they can’t afford to pay out of pocket for assisted living. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You’re wasting money by dumping somebody like my sister in a skilled nursing facility and lessening her quality of life and her chance at doing better,” John said. “By doing this, it makes no fundamental sense.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12098658\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Roselie Aiello at Sundial Assisted Living in Shasta County on March 25, 2026. \u003cbr> (Jessica Blough for CalMatters)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12098659\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CMHealthCare3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Roselie Aiello at Sundial Assisted Living in Shasta County on March 25, 2026. (Jessica Blough for CalMatters)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the coming decade, many more Californians may face the same predicament, given that one in four will be older than 60. As the state prepares for this explosion in the older adult population, it is prioritizing the ability to age in community-based settings like homes or assisted living facilities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But availability of assisted living options varies county to county and is based on decisions by the various managed care providers contracted to deliver healthcare to the state’s lowest-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There’s not a lot of options to begin with in rural counties. You take (the assisted living waiver) off a table, which already has a history of a long waiting list, and the options are pretty bleak,” said Maura Gibney, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr />\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PCZuA/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Partnership HealthPlan, which Roselie Aiello is enrolled in, contracts with the state to provide coverage to almost a million Californians on Medi-Cal, making it the largest Medi-Cal managed care plan in Northern California. It is the only Medi-Cal managed care plan available in a separate set of 15 California counties. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Managed care providers are encouraged, but not required, to offer as many “\u003ca href=\"https://calaim.dhcs.ca.gov/pages/community-supports\">community supports\u003c/a>” as they can, Tessa Outhyse, a spokesperson for the California Department of Health Care Services, said in an email. CalAIM, the state’s multiyear initiative to overhaul Medi-Cal, includes community supports such as assistance transitioning to an assisted living facility as well as transitional rent, caregiver respite and personal care services. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These services are intended to offer healthcare options to Medi-Cal members before their conditions escalate to needing more serious care, therefore saving money. 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The Aiellos turned that down, thinking it would not be good for Roselie. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you remove her totally from a family contact, she would not be thriving right now. She needs to see family,” John Aiello said. “When there were resources available that fit her needs in Redding — that’s the closest point to her home county — why do I need to move her to Oakland, to Los Angeles, to San Diego?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Over the course of nine months, John sent dozens of emails and spent hours on phone calls to get Partnership HealthPlan to cover Roselie’s placement in assisted living. He had the support of her doctor and a spot for Roselie at the residence in Shasta County. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The process was so intense and frustrating that it drove a wedge between him and his sister in their final months of living together. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“He was doing all of this to help me,” Roselie said. “Where was it going to end?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"encouraged-or-required\">Encouraged or required? \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Most people prefer community-based services over skilled nursing care, which is \u003ca href=\"https://heller.brandeis.edu/community-living-policy/research-policy/publications/pdfs/briefs/hcbs-improve-outcomes-and-reduce-costs.pdf\">generally more expensive\u003c/a>. But nursing home beds are in short supply and should be reserved for those who truly need them, Gibney said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We really try to help people look at the other options that exist for remaining in the community,” Gibney said. “You’re going to have better health outcomes, better quality of care, if you can stay in the community and out of an institutional setting.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Research indicates that while assisted living may provide better outcomes for some, people in assisted living are more likely than nursing home residents to be hospitalized, which can drive up costs, said Dr. Kenneth Lam, a geriatrician and assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The evidence suggests that it’s a trade-off,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Contracts for managed care plans are not competitively bid, Outhyse said. And potential contractors aren’t asked to include specific community supports, such as assisted living, in their managed care plans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Whether a plan chooses to provide specific community supports is not a factor in contract renewal, which focuses instead on overall compliance with state and federal performance standards,” Outhyse wrote in the email.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Partnership’s contract with the state was set to expire in December, but will be extended until 2029 because the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/Pages/ManagedCarePlanProcurementUpdate.aspx\">delayed\u003c/a> the process of soliciting managed care contracts. Lyda said Partnership is facing increasing demand for its community supports — which mainly address social needs, such as housing and food security — and for assisted living benefits. But even people in counties where the managed care provider offers an assisted living benefit can have a long wait for placement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After years of constant increases, the number of Californians receiving an assisted living waiver for the first time dropped at the beginning of 2025, though the waitlist continued to climb. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By September, the number of Californians waiting for a waiver had surpassed the number of people who were being supported by it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr />\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/kH9D7\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gibney said that Medi-Cal members are often encouraged to get on the waitlist before applying for assisted living funding, which could contribute to the long wait. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Older adults might spend months on a waitlist, only to be told that they are ineligible for assisted living coverage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of shifting sand, that’s what people are finding themselves in the middle of,” Lam said. “They’re being told that they get to choose, but it’s a complex choice.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-new-home\">A new home\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In March, Roselie moved into her new home, Sundial Assisted Living, the Shasta County facility where she had previously spent some time. Two months earlier, Partnership had informed the Aiellos that it would cover Roselie’s assisted living care. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Partnership offered Roselie early access to a pilot program that launched on July 1, which extends the assisted living options to select members of the network. There will be no open application process, but members can ask to be considered or referred through a healthcare provider. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The goal is to discover if offering the assisted living option will provide better health outcomes at a lower price.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Success would also be having these individuals being able to continue to receive care within their community setting, being in their home,” Lyda said. “We know that that is more impactful to health than being completely taken out of a familiar area.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The adjustment has not been easy for Roselie. She has been hospitalized twice since she moved to Sundial and briefly entered a nursing home. \u003cs> \u003c/s>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Socially, things have gone better. Roselie has made friends and is often called on to teach card games to her fellow Sundial residents. While she was hospitalized, her neighbors and caretakers at Sundial visited her. She’s grateful to John for navigating through red tape to get her here. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m looking at it like this: It’s a new adventure,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>John worries about his sister’s health issues and whether Sundial will be a long-term solution for her. He’s gratified that his fight ended with his sister’s placement in their chosen facility. 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But local farmers here are still feeling the effects of the outbreak. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A Shasta County judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-08-07/sweeping-shasta-county-election-changes-temporarily-blocked-in-court\">has blocked\u003c/a> a number of controversial changes to the elections system that voters approved earlier this year.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Jury selection begins this week in latest Meta trial\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Wednesday in Oakland, the federal trial between four state attorneys general, including California AG Rob Bonta, and Meta begins with jury selection. The case is looking at whether the company deliberately engineered addiction into Facebook and Instagram, aimed them at children, and lied to the public about the risks.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a consumer protection case, not a personal injury case or a free speech case,” said KQED Silicon Valley Senior Editor Rachael Myrow. “The attorneys general are asking for civil penalties and for Meta to hand over profits it made from underage users. In pre-trial filings, they’ve calculated those penalties could run as much as $1.4 trillion. That’s roughly what Meta is worth on Wall Street these days. But money isn’t the only ask. The states also want a court order forcing Meta to redesign its platforms to change the features that keep young people scrolling.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meta has argued that social media addiction isn’t a real diagnosis. The company also argued that Facebook and Instagram are not aimed at children particularly, although Meta recently developed a teen-specific version of Instagram. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected both of those arguments before trial. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Opening arguments in the case are scheduled for August 18.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12094247/cyclosporiasis-cyclospora-outbreak-rise-californaia-cases-symptoms-parasite-explosive-diarrhea-lettuce\">Cyclosporiasis cases in California are way up\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Amid the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12090791/cyclosporiasis-symptoms-california-parasite-explosive-diarrhea-foodborne-cyclospora-michigan-outbreak-fruits-vegetables-incubation-antibiotics#california-cases\">national outbreaks \u003c/a>of cyclospora — a foodborne parasite that causes explosive diarrhea, which has sickened tens of thousands of people nationally and led to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/michigan-cyclospora-outbreak-deaths-cf058908cdfd1bfd405d15e7079bed14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two reported deaths\u003c/a> — California health officials have reassured residents: The state remains one of the few unaffected by the outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the California Department of Public Health confirmed that none of the iceberg lettuce being investigated as a source of the outbreak was distributed in the state, cases of cyclosporiasis in California have nonetheless jumped up in the last few months. After reporting only 41 cyclosporiasis cases from January to June this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Cyclosporiasis.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CDPH’s most recent data \u003c/a>shows that the 2026 number has now risen to 215 “confirmed and probable” cases as of July 15, including 13 hospitalizations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For context, based on their 2015-2025 figures, CDPH’s annual average for cyclosporiasis cases is 106. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR26-024.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">“Most cases”\u003c/a> of cyclospora in California tend to be linked to residents traveling to international destinations with cyclosporiasis outbreaks, CDPH said. But the agency also suspects that this year there have been “increased cases in travelers to areas with cyclosporiasis outbreaks, whether international or domestic.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The outbreak is also impacting produce growers in California. The Central Coast and nearby valleys produce most of the United States’ leafy greens. But right now, Tony Alameda, an owner of Top Flavor Farms in San Juan Bautista, said people aren’t buying. “”It’s a shame because it has nothing to do with anything we’ve done in the region, and yet you’re just impacted,” Alameda said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said some growers aren’t harvesting 30% to 40% of their crop because of the reduced demand.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-08-07/sweeping-shasta-county-election-changes-temporarily-blocked-in-court\">Sweeping Shasta County election changes temporarily blocked in court\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A Shasta County judge has blocked a number of controversial changes to the elections system that voters approved earlier this year. Judge Benjamin Hanna granted a preliminary injunction Friday morning to stop Shasta County’s Measure B from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The measure \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-05-01/measure-b-could-reshape-shasta-county-elections-if-courts-allow-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>would make a number of changes\u003c/u>\u003c/a> Hanna said were in direct violation of state law, like hand-counting ballots and severely restricting mail-in voting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The California Attorney General sued the county shortly after the measure passed. The county board of supervisors voted to not defend the measure in court, so instead the proponents who got the measure on the ballot took the county’s place.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In his ruling, Judge Hanna said that while charter counties have additional powers, those can’t extend beyond the state constitution. 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But a growing number of \u003ca href=\"https://norcalpublicmedia.org/20260515101034/news-feed/in-a-shifting-wine-market-latino-representation-emerges-as-a-powerful-force\">Latino winemakers in Sonoma County\u003c/a> hope to turn that tide. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/06/california-budget-legislature-deal/\">adopted a state budget on Monday.\u003c/a> The legislature’s spending plan pushes back on some of Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed cuts. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shasta County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-06-16/shasta-county-wont-defend-voter-approved-measure-b-in-court\">not to defend a voter-approved measure\u003c/a> against a lawsuit filed by the state attorney general.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://norcalpublicmedia.org/20260515101034/news-feed/in-a-shifting-wine-market-latino-representation-emerges-as-a-powerful-force\">\u003cstrong>In a shifting wine market, Latino representation emerges as a powerful force\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Overlooking the fields of Sonoma County vineyards in Kenwood, winemaker Salvador de La Cruz pours flavors from his new collection of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ludorwines.com/\">Ludor Wines\u003c/a>. Each glass is paired with a different food, yet these aren’t the typical crackers and cheese. Laid out in front of the glasses are refried beans, tortilla chips, pico de gallo and other tastes from his Mexican culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Este, the Merlot, we’re doing it with refried beans,” De La Cruz tells Marinez and Mauricio Rosales, a couple who drove up from Hayward for a DIY tour of Latino-owned wineries. De La Cruz speaks to the couple in their 30s in both English and Spanish as he leads them through the tasting — the three of them all second-generation Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County winemaker wears a cowboy hat adorned with red, white and green feathers, showcasing the country of Mexico, where his inspiration for the cultural tasting experience comes from. “This is like the basics of what we already would have at our home and to see that with the wine pairing like that’s so new to me,” says Marinez as she bites into a chip topped with pico de gallo. “I’ve not seen this anywhere else. Ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Latino workers have worked in Sonoma County’s vineyards, but rarely been the ones enjoying the wines. Even as a new generation of Latino professionals gains the income and curiosity to explore wine, many still feel unwelcome or intimidated by the culture around it. Winemakers like De La Cruz are trying to change that narrative by building a tasting experience rooted in cultural connection. And with a struggling wine market, industry experts say this could be the boost the wine industry needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De La Cruz explains that he grew up surrounded by wine culture. His father worked in the fields, and as a kid, De La Cruz would sometimes join him. He remembers hating the hauling and pruning. “I remember one day I even dreamed of weeds,” he says. “I was like this is horrible I’m never going to do this again.” He realized there was a disconnect between Latinos and wine — not because Latinos didn’t like wine, but because the industry wasn’t speaking their language, literally or culturally. So he began to try to bridge the gap with the people closest to him: his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, he noticed a shift. “Now they set up the wine tastings and then they invite me,” he says. “You see the confidence when they show up to a tasting room.” He says now when they order something and a winemaker is explaining terminology they’re like “‘Oh yeah, I get that or yeah, I know that.’” For De La Cruz, that shift — from intimidation to representation — is what he says Ludor is built around. He calls his tasting a “door opener,” a way to give second-generation Latinos the tools and comfort to enter a space that has historically overlooked them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christian Miller, research director at the \u003ca href=\"https://winemarketcouncil.com/\">Wine Market Council\u003c/a>, says De La Cruz’s experiment goes much deeper than him and his growing brand. The wine industry is facing falling sales volumes, excess supply, and a generational challenge as younger consumers drink less wine. Miller thinks winemakers like De La Cruz can bring new life. “Hispanic Americans are important and are going to become a lot more important,” he says. Latino consumers are one of the most important, and overlooked, opportunities for the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/06/california-budget-legislature-deal/\">\u003cstrong>California Democrats approve budget deal, opening negotiations with Newsom\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California lawmakers adopted a $356 billion state budget late Monday that would largely avoid or delay billions of dollars in social service cuts Gov. 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State lawmakers agreed with Newsom’s plans to raise taxes on computer software, reduce tax credits to businesses and extend a tax on health care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in the next two weeks, legislators will also have to settle their differences with Newsom on healthcare cuts, funding for schools and homelessness and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic leaders on Monday deemed their legislative spending plan a fiscally sound proposal that would reduce future budget deficits while maintaining some services for low-income Californians. “We have talked in previous years and again this year about the balance between compassion and fiscal responsibility,” said Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/jesse-gabriel-160858\">Jesse Gabriel\u003c/a>, an Encino Democrat who chairs the Assembly budget committee, during a budget hearing Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faced with federal funding cuts under the tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed last year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/05/gavin-newsom-final-budget-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposed several measures\u003c/a> to limit healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants as well as refugees, asylees and human trafficking survivors. Top legislative Democrats want to delay those cuts by a year while looking for alternatives to soften the impact. Newsom also wants to raise the monthly Medi-Cal premium undocumented immigrants pay from $30 to $50. But lawmakers prefer waiting him out, proposing to leave the decision to the next governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-06-16/shasta-county-wont-defend-voter-approved-measure-b-in-court\">\u003cstrong>Shasta County won’t defend voter-approved Measure B in court\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shasta County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday not to defend Measure B against a lawsuit filed by the California attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charter amendment, approved by voters in the June primary, would make sweeping changes to the county’s elections system. \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://shastascout.org/shasta-county-files-legal-action-over-proposed-ballot-measure-to-reform-elections/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> sued shortly after the election, arguing several provisions violate California law, including requiring hand-counting of ballots and restricting voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters urged the board to defend the measure during Tuesday’s meeting. “Your disagreement with the tenets of the measure, which has been voted into law, should not affect or diminish your overarching role of supporting the electorate’s will to implement Measure B,” supporter Deirdre Holliday told supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Counsel Joseph Larmour \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://shastascout.org/shasta-county-files-legal-action-over-proposed-ballot-measure-to-reform-elections/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked the courts\u003c/a> in March 2025 for permission to stop processing the ballot measure, arguing it was unconstitutional and would be misleading to the public. 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So he began to try to bridge the gap with the people closest to him: his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, he noticed a shift. “Now they set up the wine tastings and then they invite me,” he says. “You see the confidence when they show up to a tasting room.” He says now when they order something and a winemaker is explaining terminology they’re like “‘Oh yeah, I get that or yeah, I know that.’” For De La Cruz, that shift — from intimidation to representation — is what he says Ludor is built around. He calls his tasting a “door opener,” a way to give second-generation Latinos the tools and comfort to enter a space that has historically overlooked them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christian Miller, research director at the \u003ca href=\"https://winemarketcouncil.com/\">Wine Market Council\u003c/a>, says De La Cruz’s experiment goes much deeper than him and his growing brand. The wine industry is facing falling sales volumes, excess supply, and a generational challenge as younger consumers drink less wine. Miller thinks winemakers like De La Cruz can bring new life. “Hispanic Americans are important and are going to become a lot more important,” he says. Latino consumers are one of the most important, and overlooked, opportunities for the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/06/california-budget-legislature-deal/\">\u003cstrong>California Democrats approve budget deal, opening negotiations with Newsom\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California lawmakers adopted a $356 billion state budget late Monday that would largely avoid or delay billions of dollars in social service cuts Gov. 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State lawmakers agreed with Newsom’s plans to raise taxes on computer software, reduce tax credits to businesses and extend a tax on health care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in the next two weeks, legislators will also have to settle their differences with Newsom on healthcare cuts, funding for schools and homelessness and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic leaders on Monday deemed their legislative spending plan a fiscally sound proposal that would reduce future budget deficits while maintaining some services for low-income Californians. “We have talked in previous years and again this year about the balance between compassion and fiscal responsibility,” said Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/jesse-gabriel-160858\">Jesse Gabriel\u003c/a>, an Encino Democrat who chairs the Assembly budget committee, during a budget hearing Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faced with federal funding cuts under the tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed last year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/05/gavin-newsom-final-budget-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposed several measures\u003c/a> to limit healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants as well as refugees, asylees and human trafficking survivors. 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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. 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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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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, May 4, 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shasta County voters will \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-05-01/measure-b-could-reshape-shasta-county-elections-if-courts-allow-it\">consider a ballot measure\u003c/a> that’s faced legal challenges before the primary election. It could change the way elections are conducted in the county. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The World Cup is about a month away. And FIFA luxury suites can cost over $200,000 for a single match in Los Angeles. \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/world-cup-suites-sofis-union-workers-unite-los-angeles\">Union workers at SoFi Stadium\u003c/a> say they want their pay to reflect that wealth. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors, has reached \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/hollywood-actors-reach-tentative-labor-agreement-with-studios-streamers\">a tentative four-year deal\u003c/a> with major studios.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-05-01/measure-b-could-reshape-shasta-county-elections-if-courts-allow-it\">\u003cstrong>Measure B could reshape Shasta County elections, if courts allow it\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Measure B, also titled, “Local election transparency and security reform,” proposes several changes to how Shasta County’s elections are conducted. It would require that elections take place in one day, ballots be hand counted by volunteers and voters would have to provide photo ID to vote. It would also severely restrict voting-by-mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28084146-charter-amendment-v2-lhobbs-noi-3525-copy-redacted/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>The proposed charter amendment\u003c/u>\u003c/a> was brought forward by Laura Hobbs, Rich Gallardo and other county residents involved in local politics for years. Gallardo said he’s too busy to be interviewed for this story, and Hobbs did not respond to multiple requests. In a March interview with Jefferson Public Radio, Hobbs said this measure is intended to restore trust in the elections. “The Constitution guarantees a representative form of government,” she said. “And if you do not know that the people that you elected are rightfully in office and that the election was fair and honest, then the very foundation of our government crumbles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s one problem: a lot of what’s proposed appears to violate state and federal laws. One example is hand counting. In 2023, county supervisors’ efforts gained national attention over a similar issue. They \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2023-03-10/a-california-county-has-dumped-dominion-leaving-its-election-operations-up-in-the-air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>voted to scrap\u003c/u>\u003c/a> the county’s existing voting machines and attempted to hand-count future elections. Shortly after, state lawmakers \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2023-09-08/california-legislature-bans-hand-counting-in-most-elections-targeting-shasta-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>passed a bill\u003c/u>\u003c/a> outlawing the practice, specifically targeting Shasta County. \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/07/1126796538/voting-explainer-hand-counting-ballots-accuracy-cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Research has found\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that hand-counting ballots is more time-consuming, more expensive and less accurate than machine counting. \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23731943-letter-and-manual-tally-analysis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>A plan by the previous county clerk\u003c/u>\u003c/a> estimated a full hand count of an election would cost around $1.6 million and require 1,300 additional staff members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now activists are again pushing to change elections in Shasta County. But their efforts face some opposition. “It’s going to disenfranchise voters,” said Cork McGowan, a Redding resident who wrote the opposition statement for Measure B. “Particularly in a rural county like Shasta, some people have to drive quite a distance to be able to vote, and to do that on one day is unfair and very unreasonable.” McGowan said he’s not part of any group. He just saw there was no organized opposition to the measure and stepped up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Secretary of State’s office declined to comment on the measure, including whether it was planning a lawsuit. Supporters of the measure say that if it passes, they hope to keep the parts that are legal or tweak the measure to fit existing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/hollywood-actors-reach-tentative-labor-agreement-with-studios-streamers\">\u003cstrong>World Cup suites can cost over $200,000. Will SoFi’s union workers reap the benefits?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Spectators in Los Angeles this summer for the World Cup could pay up to $209,000 for a private suite for just one match, but union workers at SoFi Stadium are worried they’ll miss out on the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartenders, cooks, dishwashers and servers represented by Unite Here Local 11 have staffed the events held at the stadium since it opened, from the 2022 Super Bowl and NFL games every fall to Taylor Swift and Beyoncé concerts. That includes positions in suites, where fans can pay top dollar for private rooms, food and drink. But FIFA has brought in another entity entirely to run its luxury program for World Cup fans. The company, called On Location, is FIFA’s official “hospitality partner,” offering those that can afford it exclusive seating, special gifts and meals. Their packages can cost tens of thousands of dollars or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at SoFi say they’re worried that FIFA’s relationship with On Location means jobs that would typically go to union workers — and the wages and tips that go with them — will instead go to subcontractors without union protections. It’s one reason they’re threatening to strike when the World Cup comes to town. ”We have so many wonderful workers who’ve been here season after season,” said Kay Blake, a bartender from Inglewood who works at SoFi Stadium. “I don’t see why they would partner with someone else to bring an experience that we can bring ourselves.” Workers also want to be paid a higher rate that reflects the sky-high ticket prices for the eight World Cup matches at SoFi Stadium. They’re asking for double pay for major events including the tournament — an arrangement that the food service workers at Dodger Stadium have for the World Series, according to Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/hollywood-actors-reach-tentative-labor-agreement-with-studios-streamers\">\u003cstrong>Hollywood actors reach tentative labor agreement with studios, streamers\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sagaftra.org/joint-release-sag-aftra-and-amptp-reach-tentative-agreement-successor-2023-sag-aftra-tvtheatrical\">reached a tentative agreement\u003c/a> with major studios on Saturday on a new contract covering films, scripted TV dramas and streaming content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tentative agreement still needs to be approved by the SAG-AFTRA National Board, which the union says will meet in the coming days to review the terms. Details of the new contract won’t be released before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2026/05/sag-aftra-studios-reach-new-bigger-deal-amptp-1236879157/\">Deadline is reporting\u003c/a> that the deal addresses concerns about artificial intelligence, while also boosting SAG-AFTRA’s pension fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actors’ union began negotiating with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) in February. \u003cb>\u003c/b>In 2023, actors went on a four-month strike that overlapped with a walkout by Hollywood writers after negotiations for their respective contracts fell through. In late April, the Writers Guild of America approved its new labor contract.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch4>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, April 21, 2026:\u003c/b>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A man shot by Immigration Agents in Patterson, California earlier this month will remain in custody over concerns that he could be a flight risk.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former State Controller Betty Yee is ending her campaign for California governor, citing flagging poll numbers and a shrinking donor base.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Normally, county clerk races don’t get that much attention. But in Shasta County, two candidates are fighting for the future of elections in a place that’s garnered national attention for years now.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Judge Denies Bail For Man Shot By ICE\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a hearing in Sacramento County on Monday, a judge ordered Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez to remain in custody, over concerns that he could be a flight risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez was charged with assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon after he allegedly hit an ICE agent with his car during a traffic stop in which he was shot at multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Kolasinski, an attorney representing Mendoza Hernandez and his family, says the judge’s decision came down to the direction of Mendoza Hernandez’s tires when federal agents fired shots. “In his (the judge) view, it appeared that Carlos was potentially trying to flee before the shooting started,” Kolasinski says, explaining the judge’s decision. Kolasinski says the order is, “fair,” but believes gunshots were fired before any movement of Mendoza Hernandez’s vehicle. A preliminary hearing is set for May 5th.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California Governors Race Narrows\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The field of candidate for California Governor just got smaller. Former state controller Betty Yee has officially dropped out of the state’s gubernatorial race, citing flagging poll numbers and a shrinking donor base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee spent months polling in the single digits, struggling to gain traction in a crowded Democratic contest. Yee says she will assess the remaining field and announce her choice for endorsement in the next few days. Because ballots have already been printed, her name will still be on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her exit comes roughly a week after the leading Democratic candidate, East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell, dropped out of the race and resigned his House seat following accusations of sexual assault and misconduct from former staffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Future of Elections in Shasta County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A county clerk race in Northern California could shape the future of how elections are conducted in the county. In Shasta County, the former assistant county clerk, Joanna Francescut, is facing her former boss/the appointed county clerk, Clint Curtis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curtis was appointed to change the way elections are conducted. He’s calling for more transparency when it comes to elections. And one way he aims to achieve that goal is through setting up cameras to record everything. Prior to this appointment, he had never ran an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His opponent, Francescut, has 17 years of experience with elections. She claims that Curtis has been able to improve transparency and election observation because of the work she was doing before Curtis took over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her then role as assistant county clerk, The Shasta County Board of Supervisors decided not to appoint Francescut, when longtime clerk Cathy Darling Allen, stepped down. And when clerk Tom Toller stepped down, the conservative majority chose Curtis over Francescut to hold the position. Curtis later fired Francescut from her role as assistant county clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curtis has claimed that Francescut, “has no concern for the public at all,”. Francescut denies that claim, while acknowledging the county clerk office has had a negative reputation in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots will be mailed to voters by May 4th, and must be turned in by June 2nd. The winner of the election will be decided in June.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, March 27, 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It will soon be a month since the start of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. In response to U. S. military action, the Iranian regime has restricted which trade ships can pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical passageway not only for oil moving from the Middle East to North America, but also for fertilizer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/g-s1-115240/iran-war-strait-hormuz-fertilizer-exports-farmers-planting-season\">the fertilizer American farmers need to start growing crops.\u003c/a> The agricultural industry has started to ring the alarm about the potential impacts the crisis at Hormuz could have on food prices. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077737/california-agrees-to-1-9m-settlement-in-prison-use-of-force-case\">is set to pay nearly $2 million\u003c/a> to settle a lawsuit over a violent incident at a women’s prison in Chowchilla. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shasta County voters will see a proposal to change their election system \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-03-26/shasta-county-election-measure-june-ballot-ruling\">on the June primary ballot.\u003c/a> Among other things, Measure B would require residents to present photo ID when voting in person, and limit who can cast an absentee ballot.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/g-s1-115240/iran-war-strait-hormuz-fertilizer-exports-farmers-planting-season\">\u003cstrong>War with Iran disrupts fertilizer exports as U.S. farmers prepare for planting season\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Farmers around the world are \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-fertilizer-exports-farming-3b7c92d58dba0817c3aa8f1db47464b7\">feeling the squeeze of the Iran war.\u003c/a> Gas prices have shot up and fertilizer supplies are waning due to Tehran’s near shutdown of the \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/strait-of-hormuz\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Strait of Hormuz\u003c/a>\u003c/span> in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fertilizer shortage is putting the livelihood of farmers in developing countries — already troubled by \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/el-nino-la-nina-climate-change-warming-e3499ef5e1081604770c4cf5f95910b3\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">rising temperatures and erratic weather systems\u003c/a>\u003c/span> — further at risk, and could lead to people everywhere \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-oil-prices-gasoline-economy-consumers-a5b47c09f83406adf2a00616382003f6\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">paying more for food\u003c/a>\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, things are a bit different. Daniel Sumner is a professor at U.C. Davis in the Department of Agricultural and Research Economics. He’s also the former Assistant Secretary for Economics at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “Farmers don’t get up in the morning and say, holy smoke, I better buy some fertilizer. They will have contracted and actually purchased and taken delivery of fertilizer in the middle of the winter,” he said. “Much of what we’re talking about with fertilizer will be decisions that people are making months, maybe six months from now, many of them for the 2027 planting decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while fertilizer supply and prices is not quite as important in California, there are other issues at play that are proving to be a challenge. “The most important thing I would say from this war for consumers and for farmers in the sense of demand for food is a potential recession,” Sumner said. “Because of higher prices for gasoline that hits everybody’s budget, people say, gee, I love strawberries, but they’re off the budget here for a month or two. So those kind of demand hits hitting consumers directly and farmers indirectly are crucially important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iran is seriously limiting shipments through \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-march-26-2026-08584480cef5cc50e525bf21602104fc\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">the Strait of Hormuz,\u003c/a>\u003c/span> a narrow passage that usually handles about \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/strait-hormuz-iran-israel-war-oil-15ce74cc8df0f19a6b7f6357773b07c8\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">a fifth of the world’s oil shipments\u003c/a>\u003c/span> and nearly a third of global fertilizer trade. Nitrogen and phosphate — two major fertilizer nutrients — are under immediate threat from the blockade.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077737/california-agrees-to-1-9m-settlement-in-prison-use-of-force-case\">\u003cstrong>California agrees to $1.9 million settlement in prison use-of-force case\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 13 women who say correctional officers injured them during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004368/like-a-war-zone-prison-officers-used-unprecedented-force-in-august-attack-incarcerated-women-say\">mass use-of-force incident\u003c/a> at the Central California Women’s Facility in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs say they suffered seizures, respiratory distress and long-term vision problems after officers used batons, physical force and chemical agents on them. “I couldn’t breathe. My lungs were on fire … I thought I was going to die,” plaintiff Wisdom Muhammad said in a recent interview at her home in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women received settlements ranging from $200,000 to $50,000 each, based on the severity of their injuries, according to their attorney Robert Chalfant. “Sexual abuse of inmates, excessive force, cruel and unusual punishment, retaliation, those things need to stop,” Chalfant said. “And the only way those things stop is through lawsuits and forcing the payment of large amounts of money so that people take notice of what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, CDCR spokesperson Mary Xjimenez said the agency has reviewed the incident and has taken corrective action. More than 41 staff members were found to have violated policy, making it one of the largest disciplinary actions issued against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation\">CDCR\u003c/a> staff in a single incident, according to CDCR. Punishment ranged from transfers to termination, CDCR said, but the department has not yet responded to a public records request for disciplinary documents related to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004477/incarcerated-women-say-officers-used-unprecedented-force-in-august-attack\">Aug. 2, 2024\u003c/a>, incident began when officers removed more than 150 women from their cells and locked them in the dining hall while staff conducted a large-scale search of their cells. As temperatures in the Chowchilla facility climbed to more than 100 degrees and time wore on, the women began to ask for water, food and medication. Prison officials have said that the incarcerated population “became disruptive.” Officers used physical force, batons and chemical agents to “stop the incident,” according to a review from the Office of the Inspector General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint claims the women were complying with the officers’ orders and that the force was excessive and unnecessary. It also alleges that some women were denied or delayed medical care after being injured, leaving them with lasting physical and psychological harm. A total of 109 incarcerated persons were medically evaluated, CDCR said, and three were transported to an outside medical facility for a short time. In the wake of the incident, CDCR also said it made mental health staff and resources available to those affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-03-26/shasta-county-election-measure-june-ballot-ruling\">\u003cstrong>Judge allows Shasta County election reform measure on ballot\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shasta County voters will weigh a proposal to overhaul the county’s election system on the June primary ballot after a judge declined to block the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local resident Jennifer Katske filed a lawsuit seeking to keep the measure off the ballot, arguing several provisions would violate state and federal laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed charter amendment would make sweeping changes to how elections are conducted, including requiring voter identification at polling places, mandating hand counts of ballots and banning universal vote-by-mail. Following a hearing Wednesday, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27917595-katske-vs-shasta-county-ruling/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shasta County Superior Court Judge Benjamin Hanna ruled\u003c/a> that Katske’s petition was invalid because it could not point to a specific law that requires a county clerk to pull a ballot measure based on its substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanna did not rule on whether the measure itself is legal. Instead, he said pre-election challenges are an extraordinary step and that any legal review would be more appropriate after voters weigh in. “That litigation would have the benefit of full and complete briefing and analysis without the severe time constraints that this case has involved,” Hanna said in his ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots are scheduled to be mailed to voters in late April. The case unfolded on a compressed timeline because final ballots must be sent to the printer by April 2.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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