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John Woolfolk

John Woolfolk

Assistant City Editor at The Mercury News

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  • English
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  • Health & Medicine
  • City News
  • News

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Cities, drivers grapple with new California safety law banning parking near crosswalks

New law prohibits parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk — marked or unmarked.
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Trump blames Newsom for Southern California wildfires, governor’s o...

Trump said Newsom “refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water” to reach Southern California, but the governor&…
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Here’s how to vote in California during the November election

Check your voter’s registration, register for the first time, track your ballot
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Why haven’t blue states rushed to join Newsom’s call for constituti...

Almost a year after Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed it, California stands alone among states supporting his call for a constitutional amendment to nationalize California gun restrictions. Will that chan…
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Backers say they have enough signatures to qualify Prop 47 rollback...

Proposed initiative would amend Proposition 47, the 2014 initiative, by strengthening theft penalties for repeat offenders and incentives for drug addicts to seek treatment.
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Condemned killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas makes new bid to overtu...

“If Polly’s killer is somehow able to prevail, this is the tip of the iceberg,” said her father, Marc Klaas.
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GOP raps Gov. Newsom as sister's cafe seeks $16-an-hour busser whil...

While fast food restaurants buckle under a state-mandated $20 minimum wage for their workers this month, Republican leaders noted a Lake Tahoe area cafe that’s part of a hospitality group run…
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Are California homeowners getting any insurance breaks for beefing ...

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara in 2022 promised homeowners that insurers would credit them for making their home less vulnerable to wildfires, but homeowners say aren’t getting credits a…
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California could be first state to give workers right to ignore bos...

A bill could make California the first state to give workers the right to ignore calls, texts, emails or other communications from their bosses outside their normal work hours.
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California home insurance exodus pushes state’s last-resort backup ...

The president of the California FAIR Plan said that one bad wildfire could overwhelm the plan’s resources.
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California home insurance meltdown worsens as State Farm sheds 72,0...

California’s largest insurer said it will not renew coverage for those homes.
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University of California grapples anew with free speech limits amid...

Demonstrators disrupt meeting on policy to police political postings on department websites.
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Commissioner unveils plan for home insurers to base California rate...

Commissioner sets meeting on proposal to let insurers use catastrophe prediction models to justify higher home policy prices.
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On the heels of proposed “Skittles ban” last year, California moves...

Proposed California law would prohibit schools from offering foods with dyes Blue 1 and 2, Green 3, Red 40, Yellow 5 and 6 and titanium dioxide, a white pigment. The FDA considers the additives saf…
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Despite modest progress, California still lists more than 23,000 pr...

California is removing more guns from those prohibited by convictions, court orders or mental health issues from having them but still has a massive backlog of more than 23,000 people listed as ill…
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End of an era? California voters pick Southern California men to vi...

End of an era? California voters pick Southern California men to vie for Dianne Feinstein’s former U.S. Senate seat
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Who are the independent groups pouring money into California’s U.S....

Super PACs have spent more than $16 million to influence the race for California’s U.S. Senate seat, most of it opposing Republican baseball star Steve Garvey and Democratic Rep. Katie Porter…
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Poll shows Porter, Garvey in dead heat behind Schiff in California’...

“At this point it looks like a three person race, with a lot of uncertainty about who the number two is,” said Mark Baldassare, PPIC Statewide Survey director.
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Garvey rockets into second behind Schiff in latest California Senat...

The Democrat-vs.-Democrat dynamic has also led to interesting alliances this winter.
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Nearly all Caltrans under-freeway lease spaces in Bay Area failed f...

State fire inspectors did 16 inspections of Caltrans under-freeway sites in the Bay Area after a massive blaze in leased space under Interstate 10 in Los Angeles closed it for more than a week in N…
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Here’s the first step in California’s quest to fix its home insuran...

Insurers have complained of delays in approving rate increases, but aren’t happy with proposed streamlining by the California Department of Insurance.