Commentary: . Poor landfill management comes at a price, and communities across California have paid that price for too long. We’ve done our part. Now CARB needs to do its job and protect California communities. 📝 Yasmina Valdivia.

Assemblymember @AsmMiaBonta wants to beef up a state law that would allow elected officials and candidates to spend an unlimited amount of campaign funds toward private security. 📝 @lynnlaaa.📸 @mgutierrezjr

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The House Committee on Education and Workforce has included two California universities so far this year on its invite list for hearings on antisemitism. 📝 Jeremy Garza.📸 iStock

With seven of its most ambitious rules for cars, trucks and trains repealed, the state officials now must find new ways to clean up the nation’s worst air pollution amid growing pushback. 📝 Alejandra Reyes-Velarde.📸 Luis Sinco

The Trump administration said it seized the 'worst of the worst' in Los Angeles immigration raids. Despite the sanctuary state law, California helped locate the men. 📝 @WendyFry_ & @ByrhondaLyons.

California Democrats were split on a proposal that would have extended an eviction grace period for tenants who fall behind on their rent. It’s the latest setback for progressive lawmakers seeking renter protections.

Commentary: . The twin assaults — January and June, nature and nativism, fire and fear — nip at L.A.’s soul. It’s hard to shake the feeling that half the nation is, along with Trump, relishing scenes of Los Angeles suffering. 📝 Robert Greene.

Commentary: . were the rightward surge of young voters of color to continue, for whatever reason, as baby boomer Democrats exit the political stage, California politics could become a lot less predictable and a lot healthier. 📝 @dancalmatters.

California mental health support lines say they're getting more calls than ever. Several are scaling back services and laying off staff because of budget cuts. 📝 @jocelynwiener.

Commentary: . The costs of leaving the California Environmental Quality Act intact became too high. Newsom confronted the issue squarely, ushering reforms. 📝 @dancalmatters.

Commentary: . A legal loophole is being exploited by deep-pocketed California water users who use lawsuits to stall key sustainability plans. 📝 Scott Hayman.

For months, a plan to create an infrastructure financing agency largely shielded from the public eye sailed smoothly through the state Senate. Lawmakers only backtracked when transparency advocates sounded the alarm. 📝 @bystellayu.

ICE arrests near two churches in San Bernardino County last month show how ramped up immigration enforcement is disturbing places that were once deemed protected. Catholic leaders have denounced ICE’s aggressive enforcement tactics. 📝 @Deborahsbrennan.

A lawsuit filed Wednesday by civil and immigration rights groups accuses federal authorities of unleashing an unconstitutional siege by snatching workers and U.S. citizens off streets and denying them food, water and the right to speak with an attorney.

California sent incarcerated firefighters to battle blazes in Los Angeles this year. It's moving toward paying them minimum wage for their work in emergencies.

In the latest state enrollment data released last month, CA had 230,443 homeless students — a 9.3% increase from the previous year. 📝 @carolynjones100.

California districts have not received Congressionally appropriated money for after school programs, academic enrichment, English-learner services, teacher professional development and migrant education.

The U.S. Senate voted not to interfere with state artificial intelligence regulations, defeating a 10-year moratorium on such laws that had earlier cleared the House and alarmed California officials. 📝 @ryantate.

Commentary: . As Newsom’s time in office declines, we’ll likely see a steady escalation of statements and actions drawing national attention to himself, just as Jerry Brown did during his first governorship. 📝 @DanCALmatters.