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A slip out of the cliffside underneath highway one in Big Sur on Saturday morning has forced the closure of the roadway.
In recent months, migrants seeking protection - or opportunity - in the US have congregated in makeshift camps beside the border in California. Now a judge is deciding if the federal government is responsible for the welfare of children in the camps.
Counties across California now have to gear up for an overhaul of the state’s mental health system – this after voters passed Proposition 1 by a really thin margin. Proposition 1 also changes the state’s Mental Health Services Act – a similar ballot initiative that voters passed two decades ago. Governor Newsom says money from Proposition 1 will start rolling out in the fall. For more on all this, we’re joined by Doctor Thomas Insel. He’s a neuroscientist and psychiatrist based in San Francisco. He’s also the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health and author of the book “Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health.”
It was hailed as the official end of single-family zoning in California and decried as a threat to suburban neighborhoods. But two years later, Senate Bill 9 has done little to add new housing, despite a desperate need for it. But a growing number of developers have emerged with an offer: cash for your backyard.
Nearly 500,000 fast food workers in California start earning at least $20 an hour on Monday. But some restaurants have already started laying people off in response to the change.
