{"id":470007,"date":"2026-09-20T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470007\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:16:09","slug":"latest-line-a-good-week-for-classic-car-owners-a-bad-week-for-santa-clara-countys-child-welfare-leader-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470007\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest line: A good week for classic car owners, a bad week for Santa Clara County\u2019s child welfare leader \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-article_inline_half lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789910168_284_arrow.png\" data-attachment-id=\"5035593\" \/>Classic car owners<\/p>\n<p>A bipartisan bill easing smog check rules for owners of late 1970s to early 1980s cars, often favored by lowrider enthusiasts, got Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s signature after a two-year legislative effort to overcome clean air concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-article_inline_half lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/arrows3.png\" data-attachment-id=\"5035604\" \/>Wendy Kinnear-Rausch<\/p>\n<p>The Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children\u2019s Services Director acknowledged \u201cwe have significant areas of improvement\u201d needed after a state Department of Social Services report found it placed vulnerable children in foster homes before completing required background safety checks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-article_inline_half lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789910169_638_arrow-sideways.png\" data-attachment-id=\"5035599\" \/>Billionaires<\/p>\n<p>A Public Policy Institute of California poll found voters narrowly supporting Proposition 40, a ballot measure to tax 5% of their total wealth. But the poll also found majorities narrowly supporting two counter-measures, Proposition 41 and 42, aimed at invalidating it. The measure with the most votes wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Classic car owners A bipartisan bill easing smog check rules for owners of late 1970s to early 1980s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,400,57615,11649,181,23,205,100,13,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-470007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-california-politics","tag-in-case-you-missed-it","tag-internal-affairs","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470007","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=470007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}