Californians in March will vote on a $6.4 billion bond to build thousands of housing units for people with serious mental health conditions. A 2018 ballot measure made similar promises, but Santa Clara County and the rest of the state are falling short.
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Inside This Year’s Massive Effort to Count California’s Growing Unhoused Population
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State, Lenders Seek to Recover $170 Million from Homekey Housing Developers
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Cal State Can’t Say How Many Employees Have Been Accused of Sexual Harassment
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Extreme Weather Is Threatening California’s Dams. What Happens if They Fail?
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Townhouse Project in Saratoga Is at Epicenter of CA Debate over New Union Rules
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Videos of Police Shootings in California Are Edited to Follow the Same Script
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How Silicon Valley Moguls Save Millions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law
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Congress outlawed tax deductions on “wash sales” in 1921, but Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Silicon Valley's Mark Zuckerberg, Brian Acton and Dustin Moskovitz see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical investments.
Read More 3State Can’t Say Why Records of Some Police Shootings of Unarmed People Are Missing
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Porn, Piracy and Fraud Lurk Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire
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California Politicians Stash $35M in Leftover Campaign Cash
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Phone Calls, Financial Support Preceded Council’s Dec. 5 Vote
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Some Big Employers at Odds with Top Tech Firms on PAC Response to Jan. 6
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How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails
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America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises, including one to shift the route through Pacheco Pass to San Jose through Gilroy, created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
Read More 9Santa Clara County Libraries Are Among Best Funded in California
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Vast disparities in California's libraries mirror the state’s yawning equity gaps: The state's most underfunded libraries are found in counties with high poverty and those with the lowest percentage of people over age 25 with a bachelor's degree, according to census data. Libraries tend to be better funded in wealthier coastal and urban areas.
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