Joe Simitian
Santa Clara County supervisor and former state senator, assemblyman and Palo Alto mayor finally gets his chance to run for Congress as Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, announces retirement. And he has $680,000 in campaign funding already.
Barbara Lee
New poll shows Oakland congresswoman now in fourth place in the U.S. Senate race to succeed Dianne Feinstein. Meanwhile, with less than four months until the primary, her plan to win the state Democratic Party endorsement falls short.
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Lassen County
Lassen CountyRural northern county has the cheapest median housing price of any California county — just $247,500, new data shows. But its population, which voted 75% for Trump, is aging and shrinking. And the largest employer there? Prisons.