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Fans of clubs ranging from the Premier League to the Women's Super League to non-league have their say.

A bona fide hullabaloo exploded Thursday over legislation spearheaded by Bakersfields state Sen. Shannon Grove that seeks to classify trafficking of minors as a serious felony, a policy initiative that

Advertisement An indispensable tool of good legislating is face-to-face dickering. That hasn’t been happening. One result was that the Legislature adjourned for the year in August amid excessive feuding between the two houses, especially among the leaders. “The process is screwed up,” Assemblyman Adam Gray (D-Merced) says. “It’s difficult to navigate through this. It’s hard to organize the committees. They’re not as transparent and public as they should be.” Gray introduced a bi...

Legislators return with new bills to help Californians hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic [Los Angeles Times] Like little flowers emerging from a charred landscape, some promising pandemic relief bills are sprouting in a California Legislature devastated by COVID-19. They’ve scarcely been noticed in the fixation over President Trump’s immoral, undemocratic attempt to overturn the voters’ election of Joe Biden — and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry dining and unemployment benefit debacles...