California's chinook salmon season may be shortened again for the second consecutive year.
The Chronicle's TARA DUGGAN: "For the second year in a row, California officials are likely to shorten the chinook salmon season, making the local specialty costly and hard to find throughout the summer and possibly beyond."
"With chinook salmon at its lowest population in years, West Coast fishery managers are considering a proposal to strictly limit the commercial season and to delay its start around the San Francisco Bay from its usual May date to August. A final decision will be made on Tuesday."
Lawmakers' efforts to regulate stadium building haven't actually translated into much of anything in the real world.
LA Times' LIAM DILLON: "With the Raiders deciding to leave Oakland for a $1.9-billion football stadium in Las Vegas, the carousel of moves and threats to move by California’s professional sports teams appears to be slowing down. So too does all the action in the state Legislature designed to help build new stadiums."
"Since 2009, state lawmakers have tried to make it easier to build new football stadiums in the San Gabriel Valley, San Diego and downtown Los Angeles, and basketball arenas in Sacramento and San Francisco. Although many of the bills were passed during frantic, dead-of-the-night gambits to meet state budget or end-of-session deadlines, with the exception of legislation for a new Sacramento Kings arena, lawmakers don’t have much to show for their efforts."
“I think when you have an opportunity to create significant economic development in our state that it is worth trying,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who led the state Senate from 2008 to 2014 and was at the center of many of the bills to speed the development process for stadiums. “Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don’t. And you know for sure when you don’t try, you have no chance.”
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United Airlines is receiving condemnation from the public at large after a video shows an older male doctor being violently removed from his seat due the airline's own mistake in overbooking; the man had his head bashed against an arm rest and his mouth bloodied.
LA Times' HUGO MARTIN: "It all started with an overbooked passenger jet preparing to leave Chicago for Louisville, Ky."
"It ended with a passenger, who said he was a doctor who needed to get home, being dragged off the plane and left bloodied and muttering repeatedly, “Just kill me.”
"The incident, captured on video by several passengers, created a giant public relations headache Monday for United Airlines, touching a nerve with a flying public frustrated with an industry that is reaping record earnings while squeezing more fliers into smaller seats."
Campaign mailers created by District 7 candidate Karo Torossian are being used in the LA City Council race. But there's a problem: They have created controversy over whether election laws have been violated, prompting a 'cease and desist' order from an advocacy group known as Latinas Lead California.
LA Times' DAKOTA SMITH: "Photoshopped campaign mailers sent in a Los Angeles City Council race in the San Fernando Valley are sparking accusations of election law violation and counterallegations of hypocrisy."
"A political advocacy group called Latinas Lead California sent a “cease and desist” letter Monday to Council District 7 candidate Karo Torossian, demanding he stop using photoshopped images of rival candidate Monica Rodriguez in his mailers."
"The group is backing Rodriguez in the race for District 7, which includes Sylmar, Sunland and Pacoima."
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California isn't giving up in its battle against the pharmaceutical industry.
KQED's CARRIE FEIBEL: "In November, California voters defeated a ballot proposal that would have given state government more control over drug prices. It was a victory for pharmaceutical companies, which spent more than $100 million campaigning against the measure."
"Now the industry is fighting new efforts by state lawmakers to impose regulations. Drugmakers are watching Senate Bill 17, in particular. Instead of direct price controls, it calls for price transparency. Drug companies would have to announce large price hikes and give detailed justifications to explain why the prices are going up."
“If you can’t understand what’s going on, how could you possibly make efforts to change that?” said Democratic Assemblyman Jim Wood, who chairs the Assembly Health Committee. Wood voted in favor of a similar drug price transparency bill last year that stalled."
The recent G7 summit has failed to establish new sanctions against Russia for it's continual support of the Assad regime.
AP: "A meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven nations failed to reach agreement on new sanctions against Russia in connection with its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad."
"At the conclusion of the meeting here Tuesday, Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said the idea of additional sanctions was raised by British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson but that there was "no consensus" on moving forward on such steps."
"Alfano said isolating Russia or pushing it into a corner "would be wrong."
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It's been 25 years since the Rodney King scandal sparked the LA riots, reshaping the nation's views on police brutality for decades to come.
Daily News' MATTHEW CAREY: "The Rev. K.W. Tulloss was a 9th grader at Locke High School in South Los Angeles in April 1992 when a jury, with no black members, acquitted four white police officers of beating Rodney King."
"That verdict touched off days of rioting, looting and violence that left more than 55 people dead."
"The riots were concentrated in South L.A. but spread to other communities including downtown L.A., Koreatown, Hollywood, Pasadena and the San Fernando Valley."
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San Bernardino has been rocked by the horror of a murder-suicide shooting at a local elementary school where 2 adults and 1 child lost their lives in another act of violence that shocked a community still trying to recover from 2015's December massacre.
LA Times' PALOMA ESQUIVEL/LAURA J. NELSoN/MAYA LAU/HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS: "A 9-year-old girl in a gray zip-up sweater ran to her mother in tears."
"Mommy, I still have blood on my sweater," she cried.
"Elisabeth Barajaz had reunited with her daughter Marissa after hearing there had been a shooting at her San Bernardino school."
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Trump's idea of the immigrants' role in America's narrative is one that many believe is at odds with the complexities of assimilation.
LA Times' HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS: "Growing up in La Puente in the 1980s, Alex Espinoza was a typical child of the Reagan era. He collected “Star Wars” action figures and played with Rubik’s Cube."
"But Espinoza was Mexican, born in Tijuana and brought to the United States by his mother when he was about 2 years old. He downplayed his Mexican roots to fit in. At the time, it seemed the worst thing in the world for a boy to be labeled as “a TJ” — literally someone from Tijuana, but also shorthand for an unassimilated Mexican."
“I grew up preferring the taste of a Big Mac over a burrito. I grew up preferring the taste of tuna noodle casserole over menudo,” he said. “Until I went to Mexico as a grad student, Mexico was this kind of static in the background.”
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