Good morning. It’s Monday, and I’m reading about why its becoming more dangerous to live in the Central Valley. Onto the five Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and California stories you need to know for today.

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Cal Poly baseball was knocked out of the NCAA tournament by No. 2 University of Arizona this weekend. The Mustangs won their first two games against University of Oregon and Utah Valley University, the latter in a dramatic extra-inning walk-off run. Cal Poly won its first ever Big West Championship in baseball and their first NCAA Regional win since 2014 this season. The coach also secured his 700th career win.

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SLO County is severely cutting funding for CASA, a program that pairs foster youth with volunteer supportive adults. One high schooler in the program called necessary at a recent meeting and said her paired mentor became her family and one of her closest friends. The county gives CASA a yearly $80,000 grant that funds local program costs and a full time staffer to train mentors. Under the proposal, all of this grant would be cut. While the county level funding is a fraction of the program’s overall funding, other larger segments are at risk state-wide and nationally.

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Financial systems at ICE detention centers are having ongoing outages, leaving detainees without access to basic necessities. A third-party company — which provides the software for family and friends to send money online that can buy food and other products at the in-house stores — has experienced technical difficulties preventing people from putting in or using funds from the system. One man was unable to receive money from his wife and lost 30 pounds from a lack of food while in detention for 50 days. 

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The California Environmental Quality Act, as celebrated as it is controversial, is facing major overhauls from the state legislature. CEQA requires comprehensive environmental review for any new development projects, but exemptions are often handed out to projects that fill the state’s housing needs anyways. The act is also used frequently to delay contentious projects and challenge them in court. Two proposals are emerging: one to eliminate the CEQA requirement for urban housing projects and one to soften it for all other developments.

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Anthropology and Geography students at Cal Poly excavated the house of a SLO family that was forcibly removed from it during the WWII Japanese internment camps. Now, a student-run exhibit at the History Center of San Luis Obispo County is compiling the objects found with the oral history of the Yoshida family. The exhibit, titled “A Dream Interrupted,” will be up at the center downtown until August. “It was just incredibly impactful and very, very emotional to be part of and to kind of work on this project,” one graduate student said. 

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