A temporary injunction bars the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring congressional approval of a decades-old exemption allowing California to set its own clean-vehicle standards.
The Trump presidency and Santa Cruz County
News and opinion coverage of reaction in Santa Cruz County to the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president, plus news from around California via Lookout’s content partners.
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Trump administration ratchets up its fight to get more oil flowing from California
The Trump administration’s latest salvo in its efforts to get more crude flowing through the Golden State is a federal review of California’s coastal management program, which is run largely by a state commission that has had a powerful role for decades in shaping development along the coast.
Posted inBusiness & Technology
Defense tech has unleashed a new weapons boom in Southern California
An analysis of defense contracts by CalMatters and The Markup charts the rise of defense spending in Southern California — often in heavily Democratic districts.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Will Newsom let immigrant college students without legal status work at their campuses?
It’s been a four-year battle to allow students without legal status to work at California’s public colleges. The Legislature passed another bill to allow this. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed it the previous time. What will he do now?
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Parents of transgender kids say California is ‘unprepared’ as feds cut off their healthcare
Parents of transgender kids warned California for months after the Trump administration moved to cut off funding for care. State officials are rushing to find money before the Oct. 13 deadline.
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Nothing changes yet with the Supreme Court’s order on elections. But it could open door to ‘chaos’
The Supreme Court’s decision giving preliminary approval for President Donald Trump’s order restricting mail voting might not lead to a single election procedure changing during the November midterms, but it has already thrown into uncertainty the method that nearly one-third of the country uses to vote.
Posted inOpinion from Community Voices
The cyclospora outbreak isn’t about lettuce. It’s about who is protecting you and your family from disease
The nationwide cyclospora outbreak has sickened thousands, exposing more than a problem with lettuce or one food supplier, writes retired family doctor Jeoffry B. Gordon. Santa Cruz County has had no known cases and contaminated lettuce linked to the outbreak did not come to California — but that should not lull us into complacency. The outbreak, he writes, exposes the consequences of weakened food-safety systems and delayed federal action to trace and contain contamination. He sees food safety as a public responsibility, and he urges readers to demand the resources and oversight needed to keep food safe.
Posted inHealth & Wellness
California maintains school vaccine rules despite Trump order
Despite a new executive order from President Donald Trump regarding the childhood immunization schedule, California officials affirmed that the state will maintain its existing vaccination requirements for students.
Posted inEducation
Despite Trump’s visa policies, international students are still flocking to California universities
Across the country, universities have seen dips in international student enrollment during Donald Trump’s second term, but the University of California has largely avoided those decreases.
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Forest fires follow roads. The Trump administration wants to build more
The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is rolling back a rule prohibiting logging and road construction in undeveloped parts of national forests, including more than 4 million acres of federally managed forest lands in California.
