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In CA: Not every school needs to stay away from in-person teaching, state’s education chief says

A judge blocks plans to convert two private prisons to an immigration detention facility. And the state tightens rules on regulator-oil industry relationships. Plus: Just because huge school districts are doing it doesn’t mean little ones have to do it…

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In CA: Can anyone or anything, even the coronavirus, take away your right to sing?

There are no signs caseloads are easing in California and across the Southwest. And as schools furiously debate reopening and how, a rumor swirls about whether vaccines are required (I hate to give away the end, but they’re not. More on that later). Pl…