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Very light traffic moves north on Interstate 405, into the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles on Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Santa Monica, Calif. In the background is the San Gabriel Mountain range now clearly seen due to the very low pollution. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

California cities project 2-year losses of $6.7 billion

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2020, file photo, the San Francisco Civic Center Courthouse building, which includes the Superior Court of California of the County of San Francisco, stands in San Francisco. Citing the unprecedented challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic, city officials across California are asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to suspend or delay numerous state laws, saying they can't comply with everything from environmental regulations to public records laws that allow the public to see how the government spends public money. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

California cities want transparency rules waived in pandemic

By JULIET WILLIAMS - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 30, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom updates the state's response to the coronavirus outbreak, at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif. Citing the unprecedented challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic, city officials across California are asking Newsom to suspend or delay numerous state laws, saying they can't comply with everything from environmental regulations to public records laws that allow the public to see how the government spends public money. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)

California city officials: Suspend transparency laws during coronavirus outbreak

By Juliet Williams - Associated Press

FILE - This May 24, 2019, file photo shows the building housing the California Contract Cities Association in Cerritos, Calif. Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, has introduced a bill that prohibits associations such as CCCA from using public money for anything other than lobbying and educational seminars. (AP Photo/Frank Baker, File)

California bill limits spending by local government groups

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 20128, file photo, JP Noda stocks cannabis at The Apothecarium shortly before the store opened for its first day of recreational marijuana sales in San Francisco. California cities on Monday, Aug. 13, 2018, objected to a proposed change in state rules that they say would allow unchecked home marijuana deliveries in places that have banned local pot sales. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Cities warn of unchecked pot deliveries despite sales bans

By Michael R. Blood - Associated Press

In this Feb. 1, 2011 photo, Harborside Health Center employee Gerard Barber stands behind medical marijuana clone plants at Harborside Health Center in Oakland, Calif. Law and order may soon be coming to the Wild West of Weed. A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to regulate the state’s free-wheeling medical marijuana industry, the farmers that grow the drug, the hundreds of storefront shops that sell it and especially the doctors who write recommendations allowing people to use it. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

State oversight may tame California pot shops

By LISA LEFF - Associated Press