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California raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California fast food workers will be paid at least $20 per hour next year under a new law signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. When it takes effect on April 1, fast food workers in California will have among the highest minimum wages in the country, according to data compiled […]

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law to raise minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour

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Column: California lawmaker motivated by text from daughter during school shooting threat

SACRAMENTO — Freshman Sen. Catherine Blakespear was at the state Capitol in the Senate chamber when her ninth-grade daughter, Ava, texted. She was at school hiding under a desk. Ava was trying to protect herself during a mass shooting threat at her public high school in Encinitas, a picturesque beach town north of San Diego. Blakespear, […]

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Opinion: Why is housing unaffordable in L.A.? Here’s the sorry history

The high cost of housing is driving Southern California’s biggest challenges. Income is not keeping pace with housing costs. It hasn’t for at least two generations, and the problem of unaffordable shelter shows few signs of letting up. There’s a metric called “housing burden” that lays the situation bare. Over the last 50 years, it […]

Alaska

Biden to announce library in honor of longtime friend John McCain in Arizona | #alaska | #politics

William Thomas Cain/Getty Images John McCain. Washington CNN — President Joe Biden on Thursday will announce the construction of an Arizona library in honor of his longtime friend, the late Republican Sen. John McCain. The McCain Library will boast “a new multi-purpose facility to provide education, work, and health monitoring programs to underserved communities in […]

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Introducing The Times’s New San Francisco Bureau Chief

Many San Franciscans know the feeling, that moment when it hits you: “I live here, and I’m lucky.” I had one of those moments the other night at an outdoor dance class in Dolores Park. The class, “Roryography,” led by the choreographer Rory Davis, used to take place in a traditional dance studio but moved […]

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Candidate in Des Moines disqualified after filing to run for both mayor and city council seat

AND BARNES AND NOBLE, AND THROUGH THE PUBLISHER BOOK PRESS PUBLISHING . COM IDMMMKCCI8NINL IN COMMITMENT 2023 – A CANDIDATE FOR DES MOINES MAYOR HAS BEEN DISQUALIFIED FROM THE RACE. THAT’S BECAUSE BENJAMIN CLARKE FILED TO RUN FOR BOTH MAYOR AND WARD 4 Candidate in Des Moines disqualified after filing to run for both mayor […]

Alaska

4 things to watch in Biden’s offshore oil plan | #alaska | #politics

The Biden administration is barreling toward a self-imposed deadline to release its plan to guide drilling for oil off the nation’s coasts for the next five years. But what President Joe Biden will approve — allowing new oil sales or imposing a moratorium on leasing — remains a mystery. If the program includes new offshore […]

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California leaders want more power to clear homeless camps

A tense debate across the American West over whether homeless people should be allowed to sleep in public has created some strange bedfellows in California. In recent days, some of the state’s most prominent liberal leaders have pushed back against a set of court rulings that have restricted local authorities from clearing streets in certain […]

Alaska

Rep. Griffith turns his attention to Hawaii’s wildfires | #alaska | #politics

The congressman from Southwest Virginia on Thursday will turn his attention from Hiwasse and Hurley to Hawaii. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem. Official portrait. More specifically, U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, will chair a congressional hearing into “what role, if any” electric utilities played in the deadly fires that swept the Lahaina community on the island […]