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2024 hottest year ever; Slave labor is fighting fires; Border Patrol is already arresting people; More studies fine NO safety problems from allowing bike riders to slow roll stop signs; More

Smoky sunrise over LA on Thursday, January 11, 2025. Photograph by Nic Warner

  • Tracking the Southern California fires (CalMatters)
  • 2024 was the hottest year ever (AP News)
  • Slave labor in the form of incarcerated firefighters is providing critical support in L.A. (CalMatters)
  • Border patrol raids Bakersfield businesses, arresting and harassing farmworkers and casual laborers (CalMatters)
  • Two new studies show no safety downsides to allowing bike riders to treat stop signs as yield signs (CalBike)
  • What to wear is no joke: Some automatic crash prevention systems in cars may not recognize high-vis clothing (Sacramento Bee)
  • Progress on California's high-speed rail program (Railway Supply, Mass Transit)
  • Governor Newsom to release budget proposal today (CalMatters)

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