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Daily Edition for Friday, August 8, 2025
To Make Up For Federal Medicaid Cuts, Santa Clara County Aims To Raise Sales Taxes: Santa Clara County supervisors unanimously voted Thursday to add a ballot measure to November’s special election that would increase local sales tax by five-eighth cent (0.625%) for five years to try to backfill some of the projected lost federal revenue due to Medicaid cuts. If approved, it would generate an estimated $330 million a year, a fraction of the roughly $1 billion in estimated loss of federal funding over the next few years. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily Edition for Thursday, August 7, 2025
Death Toll From LA County Fires Might Be Vastly Undercounted, Study Says: The official death toll from the wildfires earlier this year stands at 31, but a study published Wednesday in JAMA estimates that 440 excess deaths occurred during that period, more than 14 times the official toll. Read more from SFGate, the Los Angeles Times, and AP. Keep scrolling for more wildfire news.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, August 6, 2025
LA County Takes Action To Prevent Heat-Related Deaths In Rental Units: Los Angeles County will soon require landlords in unincorporated areas to provide a way to keep their rental units 82 degrees or below to protect vulnerable tenants and combat heat-related deaths. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, August 5, 2025
UCLA Says It Will Negotiate With Trump Over Grant Freezes: Senior UCLA administrators outlined answers during a virtual town hall attended by about 3,000 faculty Monday and also at department-level meetings, including at UCLA Medical School, which has lost hundreds of grants from the NIH. But they cautioned that there were no final decisions, and there was no mention of potentially making a payout. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Monday, August 4, 2025
Imperial Beach Community Clinic 'Is Falling Apart,' Doctors Allege: Doctors at the 54-year-old clinic, a federally qualified health center that provides care for 10,000 uninsured and low-income patients in Imperial Beach and surrounding communities, are publicly accusing clinic leaders of mismanagement. Read more from Voice of San Diego.
Daily Edition for Friday, August 1, 2025
Trump Withholds Millions In Medical Research Funding From UCLA: The Trump administration has frozen hundreds of science, medical and other federal grants to UCLA worth nearly $200 million, citing the university’s alleged “discrimination” in admissions and failure to “promote a research environment free of antisemitism.” Chancellor Julio Frenk called the government’s action a loss for Americans who depend on the university’s life-saving research. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Thursday, July 31, 2025
Newsom Signs Executive Order To Boost Men's Mental Health: Gov. Gavin Newsom called Wednesday for California to better address the “alarming rise in suicides and disconnection among California’s young men and boys” through a sprawling executive order outlining how the state will try “to improve mental health outcomes, reduce stigma, and expand access education, work, and mentorship opportunities” for them. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle and The Sacramento Bee.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Hospice Workers Hold One-Day Strike: Frustrated by delays in securing their first union contract nearly two years after organizing, workers at one of the Bay Area’s oldest hospice care organizations, Hospice East Bay, went on a one-day strike Tuesday. Read more from KQED.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, July 29, 2025
California Sues To Stop USDA From Collecting SNAP Data: California is part of a group of states suing the Trump administration to halt the U.S. Department of Agriculture from collecting sensitive information about people who receive federal food vouchers, known as SNAP. Read more from CalMatters and the Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Monday, July 28, 2025
Santa Cruz Man With Quadriplegia Loses Doctor After Planned Parenthood Closure: Cameron Cox, 31, requires around-the-clock care for his spastic quadriplegia, a severe form of cerebral palsy. When his mom couldn’t find a primary care doctor to take him on as a patient last year, she turned to Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which provided care for some people on Medicaid. A doctor there has had regular visits with him since August. But now the clinic is closed after the GOP-approved budget bill cut its Medicaid reimbursements. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.