Jeff Chiu
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AP
A health care workers'Kristen Hwang union is pushing a one-time 5% tax on the state's roughly 200 billionaires to offset federal Medicaid cuts. One billionaire has already spent $82 million trying to stop it — and that may be just the beginning.
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The initiative would classify rideshare companies as common carriers under California law, placing them in the same category as taxis, buses and trains and requiring them to meet a heightened standard of care to protect passengers from harm. -
Nara Organics has issued a voluntary recall for all lots of the product sold online at Nara.com and Target.com and in Target stores, from July 2025 through June 2026. -
Workers are set to receive cost-of-living increases, but they may not see an increase in their take-home pay due to mandatory furloughs. -
The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday unanimously to freeze all data center projects through July. -
Most condemned California prisoners will never be released, but some of them gained new opportunities after Gov. Newsom suspended the death penalty. -
California is one of just two states that provides no money for the basic defense of poor people accused of crimes. -
The median price of an existing single-family home in San Diego County was $1.059 million in May, down from $1.074 million in April. -
School funding in California steers a lot to wealthy districts and to those with high-needs students. Those in the middle get a lot less. -
The facility is the county's oldest jail. Sheriff Kelly Martinez said her department has spent a lot of money to keep it "limping along." -
The proposed legislation seeks to lower electricity bills and make investor-owned utilities more accountable to ratepayers.
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