While state studies have criticized the state’s education governance model, voters have rejected at least four attempts dating back to 1928 to reform the position.
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Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
30 June 2026
Some studies have shown that estrogen can help protect the heart, but the FDA hasn’t authorized it for this use.
Jurors began deliberations Monday afternoon in the murder trial of Dandrae Martin and Mtula Payton, the surviving defendants in Sacramento’s deadliest-ever mass shooting, in Sacramento Superior Court.
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Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
29 June 2026
On Thursday The New York Times reported, citing people involved in the deliberations, that OpenAI is leaning toward holding off until next year.
In that grandest of country music traditions, the Disarmers’ songs were honest reflections of the blackout-chasing lives the members were living, but that changed when Shook got sober in 2019.
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Brad Sanders,
Pitchfork,
26 June 2026
This level of self-awareness can be developed through psychometric assessments and structured reflections to surface patterns.
In Kurkov’s hands, his efforts offer both serious meditations and page-turning diversion.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
Science journalist Sabrina Imbler combines memoir and reportage in this insightful and far-reaching essay collection, using 10 ocean animals as a jumping-off point for personal meditations on health, community and survival.
The measure received bipartisan support from legislators and was approved with little discussion Thursday, unlike the housing bond and ‘rainy day fund’ debates.
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Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
But the conversations and debates happening — whether within families, in clinics, or on public platforms — should be based on facts, not judgment.
Savings accounts make people better savers The ESI estimates that some 22 million Americans are eligible for emergency savings accounts as a workplace benefit.
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Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
Oil prices fell on the news of progress, but uncertainty over the status of the Strait of Hormuz — Iran and the US gave conflicting accounts over whether the key waterway was open over the weekend — may have slowed traffic again, The New York Times reported.
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