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WASCO, Calif. — The long shadows cast here in the San Joaquin Valley come from oil derricks, not palm trees. Two hours inland from the Pacific Ocean, the arid terrain is peppered with petroleum and gas wells. The black gold that lies underground became the region’s lifeblood after it was discovered in 1899, and Kern […]
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ORANGE, Calif. — The gunman who killed at least four people, including a 9-year-old boy who died in the arms of a fatally wounded woman, locked his targets into the office compound just before closing time as he set off on his rampage, police said. The early details that emerged Thursday suggested that the motive […]
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There’s only one other person who knows what it’s like to be in Gavin Newsom’s shoes. “I don’t have old wounds,” said Gray Davis speaking from his Beverly Hills home, but “it’s sort of an annoyance to have to think back to something that was not my fondest moment.” Recall efforts like the one facing […]
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Read the article at the San Diego Union-Tribune California rolled out a statewide covid vaccination website this week aiming to streamline the appointment process after months of criticism, but the site is riddled with its own snags, preventing many from signing up for shots. The vaccine sign-up website, My Turn, is the state’s answer to a […]
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John Weaver used his power to get jobs for young men he allegedly harassed. His colleagues were warned. Alex Johnson was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, pursuing a career in politics, when he first heard from John Weaver, the legendary Republican operative living nearby. It started with a direct message on […]
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Read the article at Fortune.com On Jan. 14 at 8:43 p.m., Patrick McKenzie tweeted a plea for tech engineers to help him set up a website to track covid-19 vaccine availability in California. McKenzie, who heads a Bay Area financial services tech company, issued the call to “anyone in California [who] wants to do a […]
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Read the article at US News & World Report San Francisco restaurant owners, already simmering over covid-19 restrictions, are ready to boil over because of a city ban on natural gas stoves in new buildings that takes effect in June. The ban, which also affects other gas appliances, is part of a statewide campaign aimed […]
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Read this article in The New York Magazine» Ashli Babbitt did not hide her far-right political views. Outside her San Diego bungalow, located blocks from the beach, she flew both an American flag and a QAnon flag emblazoned with a giant Q and the acronym WWG1WGA, for “Where we go one, we go all.” She plastered her SUV with […]
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Read this article in The Intercept» When Montana’s legislature met at the end of December to vote on whether visitors to the state Capitol building should have to wear masks, one lawmaker gave an impassioned plea. “I have no stomach to talk about this abstractly; my community has been hit hard,” said Sharon Stewart Peregoy, a […]
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At first, Angela Marsden was worried about uploading the video she had taken because she didn’t want people to mistake her for an anti-masker. But she felt the hypocrisy she was seeing around California’s latest coronavirus lockdown was too much to bear. Marsden owns a Los Angeles restaurant, the Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill, which […]
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