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Local Bounti Agrees To Acquire Indoor Farming Company Pete's For ~$122M

Local Bounti Corp (NYSE:LOCL) has agreed to acquire California-based complementary indoor farming company Hollandia Produce Group Inc, which operates under the name Pete's, for $122.5 million. The transaction will comprise $92.5 million in cash, expected to be provided under Local Bounti's existing lending facility with Cargill, and the remaining $30.0 million payable in shares. The…

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Travel + Leisure Partners With Vintage Wine Estates On Wine Clubs, Online Bottle Shop

Travel + Leisure Co (NYSE:TNL) has partnered with Vintage Wine Estates Inc (NASDAQ:VWE) to launch a website called travelandleisurewine.com, featuring multiple estates in one wine club membership and an online bottle shop. The website offers access to VIP tastings at the wineries or virtually, annual harvest celebration events, and more from wineries throughout California, Oregon,…

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Another Cannabis Delivery App Lands On Apple Store: TerrAscend's The Apothecarium App Available In New Jersey & California

TerrAscend Corp. (CSE: TER) (OTCQX: TRSSF) has launched The Apothecarium mobile retail app for Apple iOS devices.

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Brickbat: Flipped Off

California Assemblymember Chris Ward (D–San Diego) said people who flip houses are contributing to the state's housing problems. He has introduced a bill that would impose a 25 percent tax on the profit from the sale of any house sold within three years of its purchase. Ward said home flippers…

Reason

Editorial: A racist relic blocks affordable housing in California. It must go

California legislators — Democrats and Republicans — are in rare agreement: It’s time for the state to repeal a racist, classist provision in the state Constitution that makes it harder to build affordable housing.

Los Angeles Times

Pickleball noise is fueling neighborhood drama from coast to coast

GOLETA, Calif. — Seven days a week, dozens of retirees, college students, children and working parents flock to a sunbaked patch of pavement in this oceanside city just west of Santa Barbara. They’re here to play pickleball, a nearly 60-year-old sport that’s seen a surge in interest during the pandemic,…

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: California must stop taking away child support from kids and families

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This seems counterintuitive in such a liberal state, but it's a fact: California rips off child support payments intended for moms who receive government aid.

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Anita Chabria: Lorena Gonzalez is a foul-mouthed Latina troublemaker. That's good for California workers

Lorena Gonzalez, former politician and current union troublemaker, dislikes a lot of things — and people, for that matter.

Los Angeles Times

Shock Loss Costs Medvedev No. 1 Rank, Brooksby Beats Tsitsipas at Indian Wells

Daniil Medvedev lost his world number one ranking after a stunning 4-6 6-3 6-1 loss to Gael Monfils in the third round of Indian Wells on Monday, while fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas was eliminated by American Jenson Brooksby. Monfils let out a roar as he secured the upset on the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

California lawmakers pass urgent bill to stop Berkeley enrollment cuts

LOS ANGELES — California lawmakers passed a bill Monday that would rescue UC Berkeley from a court-ordered enrollment freeze and steep admission cuts and allow the university to resume plans to enroll more than 5,000 first-year California students.

Los Angeles Times

Assistant principal ‘took his own life’ in staff area of California middle school

‘Our assistant principal at Kraemer Middle, Moises Plascencia, took his own life in a private staff area,’ says the school district’s superintendent, Dr Jim Elsasser

The Independent UK

California NIMBYs Are Ruining U.C. Berkeley. Stop Them Before They Kill Again.

A California Supreme Court decision freezing enrollment at the state's flagship university is focusing the public's fury on the normally obscure, but incredibly consequential, California Environmental Quality Act.

Reason

Elon Musk sells all his California homes for $128m after Grimes claimed he lives ‘below poverty line’

One of Mr Musk’s homes was the former residence of actor Gene Wilder

The Independent UK

Lawmakers to vote on fix to increase UC Berkeley enrollment

California lawmakers are fast-tracking a proposal that could allow the University of California, Berkeley, to admit as many students as it had planned to for the fall semester despite a recent judicial freeze on enrollment

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Record number of US homes are now worth more than $1m

Seven out of ten most expensive metro areas are in California

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California aims to limit health care costs with new office

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to create a new state office to keep health care prices in check

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Renting a car from Hertz? You could wind up in jail

Tederhi Usude, a dentist from Santa Clarita, California, rented a car from Hertz in June 2020 to drive to a job at a nonprofit health clinic in rural Mendocino County. He extended the rental several times with Hertz's permission and paid a total of $7,000.

The Independent UK

Body of missing 26-year-old hiker Kerina Blue is found on California trail after huge search

Police officials conducted an 80-man search and rescue, along with K9s and helicopters

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Decorated Army trooper dies during training exercise in California

Joseph Meitl Jr, 23, had been ‘participating in the brigade’s collective training’ at the National Training Center

Benzinga

Cannabis Global's Marijuana Products To Reach California Via Joint Venture With Caliwanna Brands

Cannabis Global, Inc. (OTCPK:CBGL) announced the signing of a definitive agreement between the company and the owners of Caliwanna brands for comprehensive marketing and sales integration and acquisition of the Caliwanna cannabis brands.

The Conversation

Affordable housing in the US is increasingly scarce, making renters ask: Where do we go?

The United States is facing an expanding gap between how much workers earn and how much they have to pay for housing.

Tribune News Service

One California university has unified town and gown to fight COVID. Why haven’t others?

Once a week, Lori Janich drives down the street from her office and partakes in an ongoing success story. Phone in hand to confirm her appointment, she strolls into the massive Activities and Recreation Center on the University of California, Davis campus, reaches a COVID-19 testing station, swirls water in…

Tribune News Service

The Amy Schneider effect: What her ‘Jeopardy’ triumph means for transgender rights

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A few days before Amy Schneider taped her first “Jeopardy!” game, she decided to literally use her own voice, not the higher-pitched, “feminized” voice she learned after she began to transition several years ago.

Axios

A record number of homes are worth more than $1 million

7 of the top 10 cities for $1M+ homes are in California

Tribune News Service

Disney’s Food & Wine Festival returns with 8-week culinary celebration

Napa Valley wines, San Diego beers, Central Coast artichoke hearts and pastries topped with Northern California-grown fruit are on the menu at Disney California Adventure theme park’s 2022 Food & Wine Festival, which opened March 4 and runs through April 26.

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