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POT SHOPS
Prohibition’s not coming back anytime soon. New Quinnipiac University poll shows that by a 54-31 percent margin, Californians say legalizing recreational marijuana over the past year has been a net positive for the state.
OAKLAND SCHOOLS
With a potential teachers strike looming over salaries, superintendent announces that up to 150staff layoffs are possible to eliminate $22 million deficit caused by flat enrollment, pension costs and years of overspending.
KAMALA HARRIS
New poll shows 58 percent of Democrats in California — a delegate-rich state whose primary comes early in the 2020 calendar — think the Oakland native would make a good president. But 60 percent think Joe Biden would.