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Jul 30, 2025

Modest tsunami waves arrive on California coast, no damage reported so far

LA Times, CLARA HARTER and RONG-GONG LIN II: "Modest tsunami waves arrived in California Wednesday, with no initial reports of damage, after a powerful earthquake struck Tuesday off Russia’s east coast.

 

The highest tsunami waves reported on California’s shores as of 5:30 a.m. were 4 feet in Crescent City while the highest waves in the United States were 5.7 feet in Kahului, Hawaii."

 

Pandemic aged our brains faster, whether or not we got COVID, study says

LA Times, RONG-GONG LIN II: "By almost any measure, living through a once-in-a-century pandemic emergency that killed 7 million people — including 1.1 million in the U.S. alone — was a harrowing experience. Now, there’s new evidence suggesting our brains bear the scars of that ordeal.

 

Living through the pandemic aged our brains faster — even among people who never became sick with COVID-19, according to a recent study."

 

New York gunman, a former L.A. high school football player, left a note saying: ‘Study my brain please’

LA Times, JENNY JARVIE and ERIC SONDHEIMER: "Investigators are looking into whether a Las Vegas man who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Manhattan on Monday was targeting the National Football League after it emerged that the gunman was a Los Angeles high school football player with a documented mental health history.

 

New York Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that the shooter, identified by law enforcement officials as 27-year-old Shane Tamura, appeared to have a grievance with the NFL but ended up on the wrong floor of a skyscraper that houses the sporting league’s headquarters."

 

California’s NPR and PBS stations will cut staff and programs after funding slashed

LA Times, MAYA C. MILLER and CAYLA MIHALOVICH: "Small NPR and PBS stations in California are teetering after Congress pulled funding from public broadcasting. Even big stations are bracing for cuts.

 

Dozens of California public broadcasting stations will lose millions of dollars after Republicans in Congress voted to strip them of federal funding, cutting off a vital lifeline in rural communities and limiting access to local news programming in an era of hyperpartisan national media."


How to conduct an effective lobby day

Capitol Weekly, CHRIS MICHELI/MEGAN GARRISON/TISHA SIMPSON: "With more and more lobby days taking place in the California State Capitol (and its Swing Space), law professor and lobbyist Chris Micheli is joined today in a special edition of the Micheli Files by Capitol schedulers Megan Garrison and Tisha Simpson to present a series of suggestions for conducting a successful lobby day."

 

California’s legal ambush on fantasy sports (OP-ED)

Capitol Weekly, JACOB APPLESMITH: "California has long been a hub for innovation—pioneering everything from personal computers to artificial intelligence. We lead, not follow. But some officials in Sacramento seem more interested in stifling innovation than fostering it.

 

Millions have enjoyed fantasy sports in California for decades. For many, it’s as much a part of sports fandom as watching the game itself. New fantasy sports formats have brought fresh energy to this well-established pastime. These skill-based games have been a fixture in California for nearly 20 years and provide a fun, engaging, and lawful experience that appeals to casual fans who like to compete against one another while watching their favorite players on the field. In my time as Chief of the California Bureau of Gambling Control and as a Senior Advisor for Governor Brown on all aspects of California gaming, we never had a single consumer complaint about these forms of entertainment."

 

As Trump’s EPA reverses landmark climate policy, California could lead a resistance

LA Times, HAYLEY SMITH and TONY BRISCOE: "In a stunning move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed to repeal its landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health.

 

The proposal would also revoke the standards the agency has set for greenhouse gas emissions from all motor vehicles."


They already live on the edge. Trump’s immigration crackdowns now threaten their housing

CALMatters, YUE STELLA YU/BEN CHRISTOPHER: "In Santa Rosa, a mother of six children says she’s struggling to pay the rent following her husband’s deportation — but fears eviction if she even requests to move into a smaller place from her landlord.


In Los Angeles, a Latino family sued their landlord and a real estate agent over illegal eviction, only for an attorney to suggest they were likely to be detained by immigration agents before the case could go to trial."

 

A green-card holder has been detained at SFO for a week. Now he could be deported

Chronicle, SARAH RAVANI: "Federal authorities have detained a permanent U.S. resident from South Korea at San Francisco International Airport for at least a week, a case that his attorneys say reflects a disturbing trend.

 

Tae Heung “Will” Kim, who has lived in the U.S. since the age of 5 and is currently a doctorate student at Texas A&M University researching a vaccine for Lyme disease, was detained July 21 at a security checkpoint after arriving at the airport from South Korea, said Chris Godshall-Bennett, one of Kim’s attorneys. Kim has a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge from more than a decade ago, the attorney said."

 

Gavin Newsom’s redistricting gambit splits California Democrats

SacBee, NICOLE NIXON, LIA RUSSELL and KATE WOLFFE: "As California state lawmakers walked out of the Capitol for summer recess earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom passed them a political hot potato in the form of a mid-decade redistricting proposal to counter a similar effort in Texas.

 

Newsom told reporters last week, after meeting with Texas Democratic lawmakers, that the California Legislature was “kicking the tires” on potentially drawing up new district maps. He also said his office was considering calling a special election ahead of the 2026 midterms, and would be prepared to write a ballot initiative or go to court if necessary."

 

Sacramento County to meet with region’s cities to address causes of homelessness

SacBee, EMMA HALL: "Sacramento County elected officials will meet with the city of Sacramento and six other incorporated cities to discuss homelessness prevention efforts this fall in an attempt to address the root causes of homelessness regionally, collaborate on solutions and potentially create a homeless council.

 

The meeting, which will include 20 elected officials from the county, the cities of Sacramento, Elk Grove, Citrus Heights, Galt, Rancho Cordova, Folsom, and Isleton, will be held on Oct 28, county supervisors announced July 15. Supervisor Rosario Rodriguez said the group will seek to meet monthly."


Trump administration says UCLA violated civil rights law with ‘indifferent’ response to antisemitism complaints

EdSource, MICHAEL BURKE: "The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that UCLA violated civil rights law after a pro-Palestinian encampment was erected last year and the campus allowed what the department called a hostile environment for Jewish students.


On the same day, the University of California announced it would pay close to $6.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought last year by three Jewish UCLA students and a professor, who said the encampment blocked Jewish students from getting to their classes and a library."

 

UC Davis veterinary staff protest staffing shortage, wage disparities

SacBee, EMILIA WU: "Twenty veterinary technicians rallied in front of the nation’s top veterinary hospital Tuesday, citing concerns about the quality of patient care due to understaffing.

 

Despite the UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital’s national reputation, animal health technicians represented by the University Professional and Technical Employees Communication Workers of America Local 9119 said on Tuesday afternoon that the low staffing levels are jeopardizing animal care and causing widespread burnout among the frontline workers."

 

UCSF’s Vinay Prasad quits FDA under pressure from Trump allies

Chronicle. AIDIN VAZIRI: "Dr. Vinay Prasad, a prominent UCSF oncologist and outspoken critic of the U.S. government’s past pandemic policies, has resigned from his senior post at the Food and Drug Administration less than three months after assuming it.

 

“Dr. Prasad did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA in the Trump administration and has decided to return to California and spend more time with his family,” said a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday."


 
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