Trump’s deportations could cost California ‘hundreds of billions of dollars.’ Here’s how
CALMatters's LEVI SUMAGAYSAY: "Mass deportations promised by President-elect Donald Trump could have a seismic economic effect in California — potentially inflicting billions of dollars in direct damages to a wide range of industries, including small business, agriculture, construction and child care, advocates and academics said.
The impact could also spread outward to other sectors, including growth drivers like tech."
Exit Interview: Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (PODCAST)
Capitol Weekly's STAFF: "As her final term in the senate comes to an end, Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman joined us to reflect on her twelve years in the state legislature. A self-described “pragmatic progressive,” Eggman represents the 5th Senate District – San Joaquin County, parts of Stanislaus County and the Sacramento County community of Galt – areas which saw a significant Republican shift this year; San Joaquin County went to Trump in 2024. We asked what she thought her party could do to speak to disaffected voters, what she saw as her successes from her time in office, and where she goes from here."
The price tag on Project 2025’s abortion plan: $300 million cut to Medi-Cal
CALMatters's MONIQUE O. MADAN: "If President-elect Donald Trump goes forward with Project 2025, California could lose out on at least $300 million a year in funding for abortions, family planning and contraception for millions of low-income residents.
Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for the next president, targeted the state with an ultimatum that would require California to start reporting abortion data to the Centers for Disease Control or risk losing critical Medicaid funding."
Reporter’s Notebook: Turkeys got pardoned. Will the Jan. 6 defendants get the same treatment?
LAT's HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS: "Hi, and happy Tuesday. There are 55 days until President-elect Trump is sworn back into office, and there are two days until Thanksgiving. Surely, Americans, there will be no arguing about politics over that turkey dinner come Thursday, right? Right?!
In a brief ceremony on the White House South Lawn on Monday, President Biden, continuing a decades-old presidential tradition, pardoned two 40-plus-pound turkeys from the Thanksgiving table. The birds, Peach and Blossom — named in honor of the peach blossom, the official flower of Biden’s home state of Delaware — were hatched in Minnesota and traveled two days to the nation’s capital."
California school board candidate accused of assaulting officer in Jan. 6 riot, feds say
Sac Bee's JENNAH PENDLETON: "A man from Granite Bay was arrested by the FBI Friday on suspicion of assaulting law enforcement at the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. Dane Thompson, 45, was allegedly at the site of “one of the most violent attacks against law enforcement” during the insurrection, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Thompson was arraigned Monday in Sacramento federal court, charged with felony offenses of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and civil disorder, plus five misdemeanor offenses. His case will be tried in the D.C. circuit, prosecutors said."
See the Aurora, Stockton’s sunken cruise ship, in virtual reality
Stocktonia's JOSH SUSONG: "This ship’s hull is cloud white, marred by mud-colored waterlines from a partial sinking. Its ports sprout the dangling ends of countless hoses.
And in the evening, when the air is still and the tide is just about to turn, the ship sounds like it’s singing."
Despite warnings from bird flu experts, it’s business as usual in California dairy country
LAT's SUSANNE RUST, MELISSA GOMEZ: "It was a late fall morning and hundreds of cows — black and white splattered Holsteins and cappuccino-colored Jerseys — milled about a San Joaquin Valley dairy farm in the largest milk-producing state in the nation.
Nearby, workers herded some of the animals onto a rotating platform within the farm’s milking parlor and quickly attached pumping equipment. The machines buzzed and whirred as the cows were carried in a lazy arc to the parlor’s exit, where they were detached from milk hoses and sent on their way."
Americans will throw out 316 million pounds of food on Thanksgiving. Here’s how it fuels climate change
LAT's KATE LINTHICUM: "Each day, an army of trucks delivers tens of thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables to Mexico City’s Central de Abasto, one of the world’s largest wholesale food markets.
Most of the produce finds its way to people’s kitchens, and eventually their stomachs. But around 420 tons goes bad each day before it can be sold. It ends up, like so much food around the world, in a landfill."
Unstoppable invasion: How did mussels sneak into California, despite decades of state shipping rules?
CALMatters's ALASTAIR BLAND: "After the recent discovery of a destructive mussel in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, some experts say California officials have failed to effectively enforce laws designed to protect waterways from invaders carried in ships’ ballast water.
A state law enacted 20 years ago has required California officials to inspect 25% of incoming ships and sample their ballast water before it’s discharged into waterways. But the tests didn’t begin until two years ago — after standards for conducting them were finally set — and testing remains rare. State officials have sampled the ballast water of only 16 vessels out of the roughly 3,000 likely to have emptied their tanks nearshore."
LinkedIn lays off more than 200 workers in latest round of employee cuts
The Chronicle's ROLAND LI: "LinkedIn has laid off 202 workers in another round of cuts amid a weaker tech job market, as first reported by the Information.
The job networking site, owned by Microsoft but operating independently in Sunnyvale, with offices in San Francisco, reportedly laid off workers in engineering and customer service. But the company is still hiring in those divisions, according to the Information."
Busing people out of homelessness: How California’s relocation programs really work
CALMatters's MARISA KENDALL: "Mayor London Breed, outgoing mayor of San Francisco, made waves recently with a major policy shift: Before providing a shelter bed or any other services, city workers must first offer every homeless person they encounter a bus or train ticket to somewhere else.
But while San Francisco has gotten an outsized amount of attention for putting its busing program at the forefront of its homelessness strategy, other California cities and nonprofits continue to quietly send small numbers of unhoused people all over the country. At least one new program is set to launch early next year."
A radical reshaping of L.A. County’s homeless services system is proposed
LAT's DOUG SMITH: "A proposal to radically reshape how the county spends billions of dollars on homelessness will be before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
Responding to long-standing dissatisfaction over the effectiveness of homelessness programs, Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger are proposing a new county department that would take over hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts currently overseen by the much-maligned Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and consolidate programs scattered among several county agencies."
Oakland FBI probe: Two witnesses to give closed-door testimony to grand jury
The Chronicle's MEGAN CASSIDY, SARAH RAVANI, RACHEL SWAN: "A federal grand jury is scheduled to hear testimony from witnesses in the Oakland federal corruption probe, the Chronicle has learned.
At least two witnesses have been subpoenaed to testify next month, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether other witnesses had testified, according to two people familiar with the proceedings and who spoke on the condition of anonymity, in accordance with the Chronicle’s policies on unnamed sources."
Golden Gate Bridge suicide nets have been up for nearly a year. Are they effective?
The Chronicle's RACHEL SWAN: "The scene played out many times at a general hospital in Marin County, always with palpable urgency.
An ambulance would radio from the Golden Gate Bridge, reporting that someone had jumped from the rail – and miraculously survived. At MarinHealth Medical Center, doctors would marshall all resources, said trauma surgeon John Maa."
Two California prosecutors promised a different kind of justice. Voters turned on them
CALMatters's CAYLA MIHALOVICH: "California’s two best known “progressive” prosecutors were doing what they promised the voters who elected them.
Pamela Price, elected as Alameda County District Attorney in 2022, implemented a policy to guard against racial biases in sentencing enhancements and exposed the exclusion of Black and Jewish people from death penalty juries. A court-order to review those biases is currently underway."
Why Sutter County plans to hire a full-time prosecutor for DUIs: ‘It is a serious problem’
Sac Bee's JAKE GOODRICK: "Drunken driving cases have jammed up the Sutter County District Attorney’s office assome statewide numbers show drunken crashes are particularly common and harmful in the rural county.
“It is a serious problem in this county,” Sutter County District Attorney Jennifer Dupré told county supervisors earlier this month."
Thanksgiving travel forecast: 6.6 million Californians will hit the road. Airports and trains will be crowded
LAT's SANDRA MCDONALD: "Californians traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday will face frustrating crowds and congestion, whether they drive, fly or take a train to get away.
The worst place to be in California on Wednesday night will be driving northbound on Interstate 5 between Los Angeles and Bakersfield, where travel time is expected to double to almost four hours, the transportation analytics firm INRIX said."
