Secret Service ‘needs more help,’ Biden says after apparent Trump assassination attempt
LAT's JENNY JARVIE, NOAH BIERMAN: "The Secret Service is under pressure, but could also reap new funding, as politicians consider what has led to two assassination attempts in just over two months against former President Trump.
“One thing I want to make clear is: The service needs more help,” President Biden said Monday morning from the White House. “And I think Congress should respond to their need.”"
Before Trump, President Ford survived 2 assassination attempts in 3 weeks in California
LAT's STAFF: "Nine weeks after a gunman tried to kill Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, the FBI said the former president appeared to be the target of another assassination attempt, at a golf course in Palm Beach on Sunday.
He was not hurt. But the back-to-back incidents have historic echoes. In September 1975, President Gerald Ford escaped two assassination attempts, one in Sacramento and the other in San Francisco."
Column: How can millions of voters still be undecided between Trump and Harris? Here are their reasons
LAT's DOYLE MCMANUS: "In a U.S. presidential race that features a deeply polarized electorate and a sharp contrast between the two candidates, most voters have known for months which side they are on.
Then there are people like Faith."
The Micheli Minute for September 16, 2024
Capitol Weekly's STAFF: "Lobbyist and McGeorge law professor Chris Micheli offers a quick look at what’s coming up this week under the Capitol Dome."
California firefighters’ union: Trump should ‘be ashamed’ over threat to withhold firefighting aid
LAT's HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS: "The president of the California Professional Firefighters union said this weekend that former President Trump “should be ashamed” of his threat to withhold federal firefighting aid to the state if he were elected.
Brian K. Rice, president of the California Professional Firefighters union, which represents more than 35,000 firefighters, said in a statement Saturday evening that it “is shocking that we have a presidential candidate who is threatening our public safety.”"
Kevin de León and Ysabel Jurado trade insults in fight for Eastside city council seat
LAT's DAVID ZAHNISER: "Ysabel Jurado made a huge splash on Los Angeles’ Eastside last spring, coming in first in the five-way primary election for a City Council seat representing neighborhoods stretching from downtown to Eagle Rock.
The 34-year-old tenant rights attorney, a first-time candidate, pulled ahead of Kevin de León, the politically wounded incumbent who once served as president of the state Senate."
Thousands in California’s jails have the right to vote — but here’s why many won’t
CALMatters's SAMEEA KAMAL: "Ronald Latney used to believe his vote didn’t matter. But after returning to jail this year, he realized the difference it can make — especially locally.
“I try to tell everybody … like, man, we need to vote, because our lives depend on this,” he said, mentioning district attorney races and bail policies. “That’s very impactful on me and what I’m going through now.”"
Making Groundwater Sustainability a Reality in California
Water Education Foundation's SPENCER FORDIN: "Matt Hurley isn’t one to gloss over what he doesn’t know about California water.
The Fresno-area attorney has served as general manager, executive officer, consultant or a board member for at least a dozen agricultural water districts and local resource conservation agencies across the San Joaquin Valley."
California’s Indian American population is surging. Here’s why
The Chronicle's CHRISTIAN LEONARD: "The number of Asian Indians in California rose by more than 300,000 from 2013 to 2023, reflecting one of the fastest growths of any ethnic group.
California had an estimated 925,000 Indians and Indian Americans in 2023, a nearly 50% increase from the 620,000 estimated in 2013, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. California’s overall population increased by just 2% over the same period."
Bay Area weather: Rare September rain showers expected this week
The Chronicle's ANTHONY EDWARDS: "Two separate weather disturbances will result in scattered rain showers and temperatures well below normal throughout Northern California this week. Precipitation in the Bay Area and Sacramento Valley is uncommon in September, typically one of the driest months of the year.
The first low-pressure system is forecast to drop straight over the Bay Area on Monday morning, increasing the chance of drizzle along the coast, including San Francisco. There may be enough atmospheric energy to support an isolated thunderstorm as well, most likely over the mountains away from the immediate coast."
California’s maternity care crisis is worsening as Newsom decides on bills to slow closures
CALMatters's KRISTEN HWANG, ERICA YEE, ANA B. IBARRA: "Since CalMatters reported a year ago on the spread of maternity care deserts, Californians have continued to lose access to labor and delivery services. This year, four hospitals have shut down their maternity wards, with another four slated to close by November.
That’s nearly on par with the 10 maternity ward closures in 2023."
Will the same protest policies yield a different response from campus leaders at the University of California?
CALMatters's MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN , MATTHEW REAGAN: "Michael Drake, the president of the University of California, wrote a letter last month telling the system’s 10 campuses to ban encampments and regulate other protest-related conduct.
But, as the letter references, most of those regulations were already on the books for the schools. The schools simply haven’t enforced them with regularity. That’s a fact highlighted by spring protests at UCLA and other UC campuses that saw police arrest hundreds of students who built the patchwork of unauthorized tents, barricades and temporary structures that made up the encampments."
Next stop on transfer students’ journey: UC Berkeley’s new, high-end dorm
EdSource's JO MOON: "Elizabeth Diaz was the valedictorian of her high school class in Bakersfield. But that does not mean her path to a four-year university has been easy.
“Honestly, (UC Berkeley has) been my dream university since I was in high school,” Diaz said. “I had originally committed before, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to afford it.”"
Bay Area schools get infusion of Salesforce funds and nudge into artificial intelligence
The Chronicle's JILL TUCKER: "For a dozen years and counting, Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of software giant Salesforce, has been asking Bay Area schools what they need to help students succeed — not just in school, but in a quickly evolving future.
And then he wrote checks, with lots of zeroes, to San Francisco schools and later to Oakland schools, money from his company’s foundation and then from Salesforce directly for iPads and internet access. Then he added support for coding classes, math coaches, pushing computer science into classrooms, setting up maker labs and more."
Dreamforce back in S.F. expecting biggest crowd in years for ‘largest AI conference in the world’
The Chronicle's ROLAND LI: "Dreamforce, San Francisco’s biggest conference, returns this week with around 45,000 attendees flocking to Moscone Center.
Hotel rooms around downtown have spiked to as much as $1,000 per night and a block of Howard Street is cordoned off for last-minute construction on Monday, as workers put the finishing touches on everything from fake waterfalls to concert stages to an expo floor."
Enough is enough: one Democrat’s take on homeless encampments (OP-ED)
GARRY SOUTH in Capitol Weekly: "As a lifelong Democrat, I struggle with mixed emotions over the ubiquitous homeless encampments that blight our cities in California. I live in West Los Angeles, an upscale community where encampments are also rampant.
We Democrats — the party of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the War on Poverty, the Economic Opportunity Act — pride ourselves on being compassionate, on acting with empathy toward society’s less fortunate, the dispossessed, the poor and the hungry among us. We understand that no rational fellow human being, if they had a choice, would spend their nights and days living on the edge of survival in a tent or a cardboard box, pitched on a sidewalk or a street median."
Breaking down California law enforcement
The Chronicle's EMMA STIEFEL: "Passed in 2015, the Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) required California police agencies to submit detailed data on every stop their officers made to the California Department of Justice. The law was intended to end identity-based profiling. It also created the RIPA board, which releases an annual report analyzing the data law enforcement agencies submit.
RIPA requires law enforcement officers to document information on every person they stop, including the individual’s race, gender and other identity attributes. Because the data is based on officers’ perceptions, this demographic data may not reflect how a person actually identifies. The data includes all stops officers make, such as traffic stops (the majority) and pedestrian stops. "
