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California’s New Dream For All Program Provides Assistance to First-Time Homebuyers. Here’s How It Works

Buying a home in California is not an easy task, but a new state program launched Monday for first-time homebuyers aims to make the process a little easier.

San Jacinto Valley students honored in March

The Hemet/San Jacinto Student of the Month program held its final recognition breakfast of the current school year at the Maze Stone at Soboba Springs Golf Course, March 16.

New California gas price law another defeat for oil industry

It was just a few weeks ago that California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the oil industry the second most powerful force on earth, trailing only Mother Nature in its ability to bend the elements — both physical and political — to its will.

$264M offered in Gulf oil sale held under climate compromise

Oil companies offered a combined $264 million for drilling rights in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in a sale mandated by last year’s climate bill compromise.

Reparations for Black Californians could top $800 billion

It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations.

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The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told University of Arizona graduates that their task is to help shape AI, he was met with a resounding chorus of boos. “I can hear you,” he said, before conceding that fears about disappearing jobs and a broken future were “rational.”

This is not exactly the message one hopes to hear while sweating under a polyester gown and tallying student loan payments. Graduates have been jeering at AI pep talks at other commencements too, including ceremonies at the University of Central Florida and Middle Tennessee State University. Still, increasingly loud skepticism hasn’t stopped OpenAI from winning court cases, raising enormous sums of money, and launching new partnerships. And AI is even earning some unlikely cheerleaders: Reese Witherspoon has warned women to embrace it or be replaced by it.

 

New California Law Bars Law Enforcement From Interfering in State Elections

California law enforcement agencies are now barred from interfering...

Democrats Pledged Neutrality in California Race, Then Chose Sides

National Democrats are zeroing in on California’s 22nd Congressional...

Newsom’s unbalanced budget faces strong pushback for spending cuts. Will lawmakers back him?

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed state budget is drawing mounting...

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