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After ambitious single-payer health care plans sputter, a new California bill tries an incremental approach

A new bill introduced in the California state Senate aims to lay the groundwork for a state universal health care system, proposing an incremental approach that departs from recent sweeping, and unsuccessful, efforts to reshape how Californians receive care.

Los Angeles Times

Wineries to affordable housing: SVB fall knocks out more than startups

Demise of Silicon Valley Bank has rattled not just businesses and investors but the ecosystem that grew up around it

The Guardian - US

Is This the Year California's Development-Killing Environmental Review Law Sees Serious Reform?

Yet another court decision stopping a U.C. Berkeley housing project is getting California's policy makers to think bigger about reforming the infamous California Environmental Quality Act.

Reason

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California has nearly 100 new housing laws. Are they fixing the affordability crisis?

Facing a massive affordable-housing crisis pushing Californians out of their hometowns and some onto the street, state legislators passed law after law to boost housing production. Now, Sacramento is asking itself the million-dollar question: Is it working?

Tribune News Service

California is desperate for affordable housing. How union conflicts are delaying it

California lawmakers thought they cracked the code last year on a construction union stalemate holding up housing bills.

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California governor vows to change law blocking new housing

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to reform a landmark state environmental law after it was used to block needed student housing at the University of California, Berkeley

The Independent UK

California will try to enshrine right to same-sex marriage

California lawmakers are going to try to officially repeal a 15-year-old voter initiative meant to ban same-sex marriage in the state

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Scientists explore using psychedelics to treat alcohol, drug disorders

LOS ANGELES — Melanie Senn's father, long dead, appeared to her as she lay back in the dimly lit room at the Santa Monica clinic, a mask over her closed eyes, and the psychedelic trip began.

Los Angeles Times

California Bill Builds on Reforms That Could Herald the Surprisingly Fast Collapse of Psychedelic Prohibition

S.B. 58, which emulates an initiative that Colorado voters approved last month, would legalize the use of five psychoactive substances found in fungi and plants.

Reason

Have a safe trip: Oregon trains magic mushroom facilitators

Oregon will begin allowing licensed, regulated use of psychedelic mushrooms in 2023

The Independent UK

'Magic mushrooms' would be decriminalized in California under new bill

LOS ANGELES — The possession and personal use of certain psychedelic drugs such as "magic mushrooms" and ayahuasca would be decriminalized in California under a bill introduced Monday backed by mental health professionals and veterans groups.

Los Angeles Times

Is Elon Musk preparing to replace Twitter janitors with robots? That’s what one man who was just fired is saying

“People worked without worries,” one of the janitors said of Musk’s takeover. “Now we are afraid.”

Fortune

California Bill Would Exempt Church-Sponsored Housing Projects From Hellish Zoning Laws

S.B. 4 would let religious institutions and nonprofit colleges skip the typical environmental review and red tape when building low-income housing on their property.

Reason

California churches, nonprofit colleges could build homes on their land with proposed law

SAN FRANCISCO — California nonprofit colleges and faith organizations such as churches, mosques and synagogues would be able to build affordable homes on their land under a bill introduced Tuesday to help alleviate the state's worsening housing shortage and homelessness crisis.

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Tribune News Service

California gave drivers a new option for gender on their IDs. Here’s how many took it

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Four years after California began issuing nonbinary IDs, fewer than 16,000 people have asked the state for a little piece of plastic with their gender marked by an X rather than an F or M.

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Police share little new information on University of Idaho killings, address stalker story

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called this California state senator a ‘communist groomer’

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Just days after a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ club killed five people and injured many more, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose Twitter account recently was reinstated by Elon Musk, took to the platform to hurl an anti-LGBTQ slur at California state Sen.…

The Guardian - US

California legislature is 10% LGBTQ+ in record-setting year nationwide

At least 519 out LGBTQ+ candidates won election this year across US – but Colorado shooting is reminder of extremist threat

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The Independent UK

In California, 10% of Legislature now identifies as LGBTQ

Once all of them assume office, California will be the first state where it's believed more than 10% of legislators identify publicly as LGBTQ

Fortune

‘Weak, pathetic, and cruel’: HR managers weigh in on Elon Musk’s Twitter mass layoffs

Experts call Twitter’s mass layoffs, which came via email less than a week after Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal closed, “infuriating and heartbreaking.”

Los Angeles Times

Paul Pelosi’s covert 911 call allowed police to intervene in San Francisco attack, sources say

SAN FRANCISCO — Paul Pelosi, husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked early Friday by an intruder who broke into the couple’s San Francisco home and fractured his skull with a hammer in what a law enforcement source said appeared to be a targeted assault.

Los Angeles Times

Attacker yelled, ‘Where is Nancy?’ before attacking Paul Pelosi, who underwent skull surgery

SAN FRANCISCO — Paul Pelosi, husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was “violently” attacked early Friday, when an intruder broke into the couple’s San Francisco home and fractured his skull with a hammer, in what a law enforcement source said appeared to be a targeted attack.

Tribune News Service

The radicalization of Kevin Kiley: A California politician’s strange journey from MLK to MAGA

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In 2007, an idealistic 22-year-old Harvard student named Kevin Kiley wrote in his undergraduate thesis that “politicians are inclined to do the easy thing — cater to the worldviews of their constituents — rather than offer the more challenging task of self-examination.”

Salon

California becomes trans youth sanctuary

“In California we believe in equality and acceptance,” Newsom says regarding his signing of Senate Bill 107

The Independent UK

New law aims to make California haven for transgender youth

A new law aims to stop other states from punishing children who come to California for gender-affirming care

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