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How will voters perceive staff wage increases in November?
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Although there are legitimate arguments for and against, the real test for Gov. Brown will be how voters see staff pay raises amid a statewide financial crisis.

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Overhaul in the works for community college registration
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A new policy on the horizon looks to make sweeping changes to registration at California community colleges

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Third time is the charm: San Bernardino votes to file Chapter 9
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Tuesday’s vote by the city of San Bernardino to file for bankruptcy and California’s suspension of the Brown Act may seem like separate issues, but a quick perusal of the details says otherwise.

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Santa Clara County pulls out of 49ers stadium funding game
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County officials decide spending stadium money on schools is a better deal. An expert explains why they made the right game-time decision.

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UC Berkeley’s world-renown library system on the chopping block
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California shouldn’t undo what it has spent years building: a world-class secondary education system with UC Berkeley as the crown jewel.

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The movement toward the middle: CA’s growing decline-to-state voters
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It’s either Democrat, Republican, or some fringe third party that never comes close to having real political clout. Frustrated voters in California are turning their noses and throwing the menu away entirely by checking the decline-to-state option when registering,.

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Los Angeles answers “Paper or plastic?” for you
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After hemming and hawing over the issue for years, the city of Los Angeles took the major step on Monday of approving a ban on plastic bags in supermarket checkout lines, making it the largest city in the United States to do so.

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Shifting California demographics bolster optimistic future
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California has always been a bellwether state when it comes to demographic shifts, often seeing trends fully materialize as they are just creeping into other areas of the country.

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The city of Richmond puts a soda tax on the ballot in November
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In a world where soda is the lifeblood of high blood pressure, obesity and heart disease, the city of Richmond has had enough.

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