Category: Northern California

Tencent Co-founder’s Yidan Prize Honors California Education Board President With $3.9 Million

October 10, 2022
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California Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond, who is involved in research that aids the development of local and federal education policy, has been awarded $3.9 million as the winner of Yidan Prize—the largest education prize in the world—founded by a Chinese billionaire. This year’s recipients were announced Sep. 28 during a Stanford Graduate School…

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Valero’s Scorching Response to California’s Claims That Big Oil Is Price Gouging

October 10, 2022
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Valero Energy Corp. has responded to the California’s Energy Commission’s (CEC) accusatory letter which claimed that the oil industry raised prices in California while global crude prices declined, and in the absence of any unplanned refinery outages, and no increases in state taxes or fees. “[C]rude oil prices are down and industry profits are up,…

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West Coast Leaders Sign Climate Agreement in San Francisco

October 9, 2022
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom ramped up attacks on oil companies and vowed Oct. 7 to double down on aggressive clean energy plans while renewing a climate action agreement with Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. All four regions are facing droughts, excessive heat, and smoke from large wildfires, the leaders said. By signing an updated Pacific Coast…

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California Begins Sending Inflation Relief Payments

October 8, 2022
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Up to $1,050 in tax refund payments started going into the direct deposit accounts of about 23 million Californians on Friday, Oct. 7, state officials said. These one-time payments known as the Middle Class Tax Refund will be sent to taxpayers through Jan. 15, 2023—as part of the $308 billion state budget signed by Gov. Gavin…

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Protesters in California Hold Rallies Against CCP on China’s National Day

October 7, 2022
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held its 73rd National Day on Oct. 1. Meanwhile, protesters in California and around the world rallied against the CCP, citing its long history of violence, human rights violations, and totalitarianism. Groups in northern California held two rallies, one in Berkeley and one in San Francisco. In the morning, protesters went…

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New Book Tackles Western Cities’ Problems

October 7, 2022
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Commentary My friend Steven Greenhut just popped out another book on California, “Back from Dystopia: A New Vision for Western Cities.” It’s free here (pdf). A year ago I reviewed his “Saving California: Solutions to the state’s biggest policy problems.” (Here are parts two and three of my review.) And in 2020 it was “Winning…

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Brother of Suspect in California Family’s Killing Arrested

October 7, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO— The younger brother of a man suspected in the kidnapping and killings of an 8-month-old baby, her parents, and an uncle, was arrested on suspicion he helped his brother destroy evidence, authorities said Friday. Alberto Salgado, 41, was arrested late Thursday and accused of criminal conspiracy, accessory, and destroying evidence, the Merced County…

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Sheriff: Killing of Kidnapped California Family ‘Pure Evil’

October 7, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO—The suspect in the kidnapping and killings of an 8-month-old baby, her parents, and an uncle had worked for the family’s trucking business and had a longstanding feud with them that culminated in an act of “pure evil,” a sheriff said Thursday. The bodies of Aroohi Dheri; her mother Jasleen Kaur, 27; father Jasdeep…

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Teen Suspect Arrested in Double-Murder of 2 High School Students

October 7, 2022
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Authorities in North Carolina arrested a 17-year-old suspect in connection to the double murder of two high school students who went missing in mid-September. The bodies of Lyric Woods, 14, and Devin Clark, 18, were located along a hiking trail near Buckhorn Road in Orange County on Sept. 18, according to a press release posted…

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Why California Has a Dem-GOP Binary

October 6, 2022
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Commentary A CalMatters article this week reported “California stuck in Dem-GOP binary.” But it didn’t explain why. I will here. There are three major reasons, in order of importance. First, there is the much-derided Electoral College. Democrats like to attack it because it’s not “democratic,” giving added weight to small states, as does the U.S. Senate….

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