From a heated congressional primary clash to severe weather and a billionaire\u2019s real estate ties, here is a quick digest of the day\u2019s top stories.<\/p>\n
Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang\u2019s campaign is blaming rival Rep. Doris Matsui for stoking conservative media attacks over Vang\u2019s refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance<\/a> at a council meeting. Vang, the progressive challenger in the 7th District primary, says Matsui is trying to elevate a MAGA Republican to avoid facing a fellow Democrat in November.The National Weather Service is forecasting more isolated thunderstorms across the Sacramento area<\/a> Wednesday and Thursday, following a Tuesday evening storm that one witness in Davis called \u201cone of the most insane thunderstorms I\u2019ve ever witnessed.\u201d Tuesday\u2019s storms dropped a half inch to 1.5 inches of rain across Northern California.Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer has roughly $3.5 million invested in Bridge Partners real estate funds<\/a> that own apartment complexes with histories of evictions, fee hikes and maintenance problems \u2014 complicating his populist pitch to stop Wall Street from buying up middle-class homes. Steyer\u2019s spokesperson said he invested in the firm because of its focus on multifamily affordable housing.The Velocity Invitational motorsport festival returns to Sonoma Raceway<\/a> this Friday through Sunday after a one-year postponement in 2025. The event features drivers from Formula 1, the American Rally Association and Formula Drift, including Red Bull Racing reserve driver Yuki Tsunoda, rally champion Lia Block and \u201cFast & Furious\u201d actor Sung Kang. <\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a heated congressional primary clash to severe weather and a billionaire\u2019s real estate ties, here is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-335414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}