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    Insurance Denials Leaving Families Without Vital Behavioral Health Care
            
                
                    
                        Season 2025
                    
                
                
                    
                        Episode 276
                    
                
            
        
        
            
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            Declining Enrollment Leads to CA School Closures
                
                    
                        
                            Season 2024
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 253
                        
                    
                
            
            
            Declining enrollment, expiring pandemic relief grants, and budget uncertainty have left California schools in financial peril. School closures disproportionately impact low-income and Black communities, raising concerns about disinvestment in education. Some districts use closures to modernize merged schools, but challenges persist.
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            Law boosts density within a half mile of major rail and bus lines.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Cap aims to curb punitive fees while boards warn of weaker enforcement.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Supporters say it counters Texas. Opponents call it unconstitutional.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            AB 255 veto stalls plan to let cities spend 10% on recovery housing.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Most of 500 science and health grants return after a judge blocks the cut.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Federal agents detain people at CA courts despite a state ban.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Students and schools rebuild years after the deadly Camp Fire.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            State drafts fixes for charging, carpool access and diesel pollution.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Law reverts excise tax to 15% through 2028 to aid legal sellers.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Guidelines urge updated shots for 6 months+, and insurers must cover.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            New DMV lookup helps owners reclaim surplus from lien sales.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Some cities are ramping up efforts to ticket and tow vehicles that shelter homeless Californians.