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Sacramento Report: The Diablo’s in the Details

By Nadia Lathan | Voice of San Diego

The California Coastal Commission is deciding next week how long Diablo Canyon, the state’s last nuclear power plant, can keep operating.

Pacific Gas & Electric, which owns the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, needs approval from the Coastal Commission to keep it running after it was scheduled to shut down this year. It’s one of the last permits needed to stay open after lawmakers approved it to continue operating until 2030.

Although situated 325 miles north of San Diego on the Central Coast, what happens within the plant’s concrete domes has implications for the Southern California metropolitan area, too.

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SANDAG seeks public comment on final version of 2025 transportation plan

By Chris Jennewein | Times of San Diego

SANDAG, the regional transportation planning organization for the San Diego area, is seeking public comment on the final version of its 2025 Regional Plan.

The agency released the plan on Friday and is seeking comment by email or at the Dec. 12 board meeting, which is open to the public in person or by Zoom.

“The goal of the 2025 Regional Plan is to make transportation more convenient, equitable, healthy and safe,” the agency said.

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‘We may be deporting the wrong people’: New poll shows doubts about immigration crackdown

By Wendy Fry | CalMatters

If you found out your neighbor had a past criminal conviction, your knee-jerk reaction might be that you’d want them relocated.

But what if that person committed a burglary in their late teens, served years in state prison, turned their life around, and now mentors at-risk youth?

Do the details matter? Researchers found that they do.

new poll by Goodwin Simon Strategic Research examines California voters’ attitudes toward due process for immigrants with criminal convictions during the Trump administration’s nationwide crackdown on unauthorized immigration. The survey also examined support for how tax dollars are spent and Californians’ views on the state’s sanctuary policies.

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