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California in Focus

The podcast bringing you the most important stories out of California from TheCenterSquare.com. Join us as we dive into the top headlines and provide insightful commentary and analysis.

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GOP Legislators Propose Creating New State From CA Counties Aug 28, 2025

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(The Center Square) – Republicans are calling for 35 inland counties to secede from California and create a new state. The GOP announced the plan Wednesday as their response to Democrats’ congressional redistricting efforts. “I want to take a step back from all of the chaos we had and talk about the forgotten people of California,” Assembly Minority Leader James Gallagher said, presenting a map during a news conference in Sacramento.

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Trump Defunds California Sex Ed Program Over ‘Gender Ideology' Aug 22, 2025

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(The Center Square) – The Trump administration terminated a federal grant that provided funding for sex education classes in California. The federal government terminated the Personal Responsibility Education Program, or PREP, after California refused to remove lessons on gender ideology as part of its program.

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Mayor Karen Bass’s Charity Skips Working Americans, Data Suggests Aug 21, 2025

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(The Center Square) - Less than 1% of aid recipients from the official charity of the office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass reported receiving the earned income tax credit, leading Republican leaders to wonder why so much of the charity’s aid is going towards non-working households. According to a report from Loyola Marymount University studying the impact of the mayor’s “We Are Los Angeles” eviction legal aid program, only 0.3% of surveyed aid recipients reported receiving the earned income tax credit for working households legally in the United States.

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Trump Condemns Possible Low-Income Housing Pacific Palisades Rebuild Aug 15, 2025

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(The Center Square) - President Donald Trump condemned the possibility of building low-income housing in the Pacific Palisades, and the City of Los Angeles’s slow issuance of rebuilding permits for the fire-ravaged community. "You see what’s happening now, they didn't get their permits," said President Trump at a press conference Monday. “This is among the most beautiful areas — was — in the country. Now they're talking about putting low-income housing there, can you believe this?"

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California Agency’s Budget Grew 68X Over the Past Decade Aug 09, 2025

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(The Center Square) - The budget of a little-known California agency ballooned to over 68 times its original size over the last decade, but few people have taken advantage of the ScholarShare Investment Board scholarships that the agency funds, an investigation by The Center Square found. Since the 2015-2016 fiscal year, SIB's budget grew from $2.9 million to $198 million as the state created a universal scholarship claimed by only 11% of eligible students, state data shows.

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CA Bill Could Finance Low-Income Housing in Palisades, Altadena Aug 08, 2025

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(The Center Square) - A California bill nearing the governor’s desk would create “Climate Resilience Districts” to in part finance income-restricted “affordable” housing in disaster-impacted areas such as the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, similar to the “Resilient Rebuilding Authority” bill put on hold in July. According to the bill’s analysis by the State Assembly Committee on Local Government, the CRDs would bypass some existing public input requirements and lack a formal protest process residents could use to block a CRD’s adoption.

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Fiscal Fallout: California Interest on Fraudulent COVID Benefits Rapidly Growing Aug 01, 2025

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(The Center Square) - Since California Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019, state debt payments on unemployment benefits have gone from zero to nearly $600 million this year, and could soon result in annual payroll tax increases of nearly $500 per employee, according to an analysis by The Center Square. These payments to the federal government will soon reach $1 billion per year to pay back $20 billion California borrowed to help cover what the state says was $55 billion in "ineligible" or fraudulent COVID-era unemployment insurance benefits claims, state records show.

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Backlash Puts Bill Creating LA Fire Rebuilding Agency on Hold Jul 25, 2025

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(The Center Square) — A controversial California bill that would have created a powerful “Resilient Rebuilding Authority” for the Los Angeles fires was put on temporary hold by state Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, in response to widespread community concerns. “I appreciate the input of the folks who have weighed in about the bill, and along with legislative colleagues have decided that it would be best for us to pause the bill until next year to give us more time to see if we can get it right,” said Allen in a statement on SB 549.

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CA Bill Would Fine Stores for Theft of Their Shopping Carts Jul 24, 2025

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(The Center Square) - The California Senate and now a key Assembly committee have passed a bill that would allow cities to charge businesses up to $650 for returning shopping carts stolen from them. The measure, Senate Bill 753, was introduced at the urging of the city of San Jose, which faces major homelessness and budget crises.

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CA Bill to Let la Buy Fire-Destroyed Lots for Low-Income Housing Jul 18, 2025

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(The Center Square) - The California Senate passed a bill to authorize a Los Angeles County “Resilient Rebuilding Authority" that could use public funds to "purchase lots at a fair price for land banking," and "create open space." The bill would also allow municipal bodies to use property taxes to fund low-income housing and public transit. Senate Bill 549 now has a hearing in the state Assembly scheduled for Wednesday.

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