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SB 1524 Approved: California’s Restaurant Industry Can Keep Its Controversial Service Fees

California restaurant owners can now sigh with relief after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Saturday, June 29, that…

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Health

California’s Medicaid experiment, CalAIM, leans on nonprofits to offer services : Shots

Alondra Mercado, a community health worker with the Central California Asthma Collaborative, helps provide services through an ambitious California Medicaid…

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Food & Drink

California’s Junk Fee Ban Could ‘Upend’ the Restaurant Industry

As the clock ticks down to July 1, when a new California law banning so-called junk fees is set to…

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Food & Drink

Was California’s Wine Revolution Just a Mirage?

In Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, White Noise, he writes of the spectacle of watching tragedy unspool far away. “Only a…

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Tech

Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion

California’s electric grid, with its massive solar production and booming battery installations, is already on the cutting edge of the…

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Tech

Google, a $1.97 trillion company, is protesting California’s plan to pay journalists

Google, the search giant that brought in more than $73 billion in profit last year, is protesting a California bill…

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Food & Drink

California’s New $20 Fast-Food Worker Minimum Wage, Explained

On Monday, April 1, the minimum wage for fast-food workers in California rose to $20 under AB1228, a new law…

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Environment

California’s new megafires are taking a toll on wildlife habitat, researchers find » Yale Climate Connections

California’s long-toed salamanders are one of the species threatened by rising rates of extreme fire in the state. Named for…

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Food & Drink

Panera Is Not Exempted From California’s Fast Food Minimum Wage Law

On February 28, Bloomberg reported that bakery chain Panera would be exempt from California’s AB1228, a law that raises the…

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Money

California’s Junk Fee Ban Kicks In This July

Elliott Brown had booked a two-night stay at The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square. “I booked the…

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