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Gas cost per gallon jumps nearly 6 cents PAYING MORE AT THE PUMP » CALIFORNIA TAX INCREASE S tarting Monday, Californians will spend a bit more each time they stop to gas up their tanks. The state’s gasoline tax rose nearly 6 cents a gallon, the second in a series of tax hikes to improve the state’s aging transportation system. The increase, which will cost drivers about $1 more for every fill-up, will boost what already are the nation’s highest prices at the pump. “I was just rolling my eyes at the sign,” Taylor Cosgrove, 26, said last week after pulling into the Chevron at the corner of College and Mendocino avenues in Santa Rosa. “Honestly, it is what it is. You have to drive. There’s really no other option.” Prices at the station Sunday were $3.96 a gallon of regular — and $4.06 for the premium gasoline Cosgrove uses to fuel her white BMW 328i. The increase was set in motion in 2017, when the Legislature passed Senate Bill 1 to fund transportation improvements. The first increase — 11.7 cents on a gallon of gasoline — was implemented that Novem- ber. The second, which boosts the tax by 5.6 cents a gallon — takes effect Monday. The taxes will be adjusted annually for inflation, which historically has climbed roughly 3 percent annually — potentially increasing state fuel taxes by another 1.5 cents a gallon yearly. Californians now pay nearly 80 cents in State police agencies still fight transparency law Sexual assault in jail. Domestic vi- olence complaints against an officer ignored. Knocked-out teeth followed by a cover-up. Those cases involving California peace officers are detailed in docu- ments recently made public under a landmark transparency law that un- did decades of secrecy surrounding police internal affairs files. But six months after Senate Bill 1421 went into effect, some of the state’s largest law enforcement agen- cies haven’t provided a single record. Some law enforcement organiza- tions are charging high fees for re- cords, destroying documents and even ignoring court orders to produce the files. The law, authored by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, covers re- cords of shootings by officers, severe uses of force and confirmed cases of sexual assault and dishonesty by offi- cers. Skinner said the revelations that have come out so far are proof that the law is working to shed sunlight on police misconduct. But she said it’s troubling that ma- jor state agencies, such as the CHP, which employs more than 7,300 offi- cers, haven’t yet produced records. “If the state agencies themselves are acting like they’re above the law, that’s absolutely the wrong model and the wrong example to set for the rest of the local government agencies up and down the state,” Skinner said. Skinner said she plans to call for oversight hearings to push for full dis- closure. “We’ll have to start being more GENARO MOLINA/LOS ANGELES TIMES The CHP is among major law enforcement agencies still witholding internal affairs files from the public. OPEN RECORDS » Requests for facts facing high fees, delays, destroyed documents Revenue raised from fuel users would help fix area roads, bridges By KEVIN FIXLER THE PRESS DEMOCRAT TURN TO GAS » PAGE A2 By SUKEY LEWIS AND THOMAS PEELE LOS ANGELES TIMES TURN TO POLICE » PAGE A2 Luis Hernandez, of Petaluma, pumps gas at the Chevron station on the corner of College and Mendocino avenues in Santa Rosa. Trump N Korea visit a first SEOUL, South Korea — Pres- ident Donald Trump on Sunday became the first sitting Ameri- can commander in chief to set foot in North Korea as he met Kim Jong Un, the country’s leader, at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone, and the two agreed to restart negotiations on a long-elusive nuclear agree- ment. Greeted by a beaming Kim, the president stepped across a low concrete border marker at 3:46 p.m. local time and walked 20 paces to the base of a building on the North Korean side for an unprecedented, camera-friend- ly demonstration of friendship intended to revitalize stalled talks. “It is good to see you again,” an exuberant Kim told the pres- ident through an interpreter. “I never expected to meet you in this place.” “Big moment, big moment,” Trump told him. After about a minute on offi- cially hostile territory, Trump escorted Kim back over the line into South Korea, where the two briefly addressed a scrum of journalists before slipping in- side the building known as Free- dom House for a private con- versation along with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea. Trump said he would invite Kim to visit him at the White House. “This has a lot of significance because it means that we want to bring an end to the unpleas- ant past and try to create a new future,” Kim told reporters. “So it’s a very courageous and deter- mined act.” “Stepping across that line was a great honor,” Trump replied. “A lot of progress has been Leaders hold hourlong summit at DMZ to restart nuclear talks By PETER BAKER AND MICHAEL CROWLEY NEW YORK TIMES TURN TO TRUMP » PAGE A6 Donald Trump Kim Jong Un The two world leaders met Sunday at the Demilitarized Zone separating North Korea and South Korea
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Refugio Arreguin fills up his tank on June 24 at the Chevron station on the corner of College and Mendocino avenues in Santa Rosa. Gas taxes across the state increased by almost 6 cents per gallon Monday as part of Senate Bill 1, which was passed and signed into law in April 2017.
Gas cost per gallon jumps nearly 6 cents
PAYING MORE AT THE PUMP » CALIFORNIA TAX INCREASE
Starting Monday, Californians will spend a bit more each time they stop to gas up their tanks.
The state’s gasoline tax rose nearly 6 cents a gallon, the second in a series of tax hikes to improve the state’s aging transportation system. The increase, which will cost drivers about $1 more for every fill-up, will boost what already are the nation’s highest prices at the pump.
“I was just rolling my eyes at the sign,” Taylor Cosgrove, 26, said last week after pulling into the Chevron at the corner of College and Mendocino avenues in Santa Rosa. “Honestly, it is what it is. You have to drive. There’s really no other option.”
Prices at the station Sunday were $3.96 a gallon of regular — and $4.06 for the premium gasoline Cosgrove uses to fuel her white BMW 328i.
The increase was set in motion in 2017, when the Legislature passed Senate Bill 1 to fund transportation improvements. The
first increase — 11.7 cents on a gallon of gasoline — was implemented that Novem-ber. The second, which boosts the tax by 5.6 cents a gallon — takes effect Monday.
The taxes will be adjusted annually for inflation, which historically has climbed
roughly 3 percent annually — potentially increasing state fuel taxes by another 1.5 cents a gallon yearly.
Californians now pay nearly 80 cents in
State police agencies still fight transparency law
Sexual assault in jail. Domestic vi-olence complaints against an officer ignored. Knocked-out teeth followed by a cover-up.
Those cases involving California peace officers are detailed in docu-ments recently made public under a landmark transparency law that un-did decades of secrecy surrounding
police internal affairs files.But six months after Senate Bill
1421 went into effect, some of the state’s largest law enforcement agen-cies haven’t provided a single record.
Some law enforcement organiza-tions are charging high fees for re-cords, destroying documents and even ignoring court orders to produce the files.
The law, authored by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, covers re-cords of shootings by officers, severe uses of force and confirmed cases of sexual assault and dishonesty by offi-cers.
Skinner said the revelations that have come out so far are proof that
the law is working to shed sunlight on police misconduct.
But she said it’s troubling that ma-jor state agencies, such as the CHP, which employs more than 7,300 offi-cers, haven’t yet produced records.
“If the state agencies themselves are acting like they’re above the law, that’s absolutely the wrong model and the wrong example to set for the rest of the local government agencies up and down the state,” Skinner said.
Skinner said she plans to call for oversight hearings to push for full dis-closure.
“We’ll have to start being more GENARO MOLINA/LOS ANGELES TIMES
The CHP is among major law enforcement agencies still witholding internal affairs files from the public.
OPEN RECORDS » Requests for facts facing high fees, delays, destroyed documents
Revenue raised from fuel users would help fix area roads, bridgesBy KEVIN FIXLERTHE PRESS DEMOCRAT
TURN TO GAS » PAGE A2
By SUKEY LEWIS AND THOMAS PEELELOS ANGELES TIMES
TURN TO POLICE » PAGE A2
Luis Hernandez, of Petaluma, pumps gas at the Chevron station on the corner of College and Mendocino avenues in Santa Rosa.
Trump N Korea visit a first
SEOUL, South Korea — Pres-ident Donald Trump on Sunday became the first sitting Ameri-can commander in chief to set foot in North Korea as he met Kim Jong Un, the country’s leader, at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone, and the two agreed to restart negotiations on a long-elusive nuclear agree-ment.
Greeted by a beaming Kim, the president stepped across a low concrete border marker at 3:46 p.m. local time and walked 20 paces to the base of a building on the North Korean side for an unprecedented, camera-friend-ly demonstration of friendship intended to revitalize stalled talks.
“It is good to see you again,” an exuberant Kim told the pres-ident through an interpreter. “I never expected to meet you in this place.”
“Big moment, big moment,” Trump told him.
After about a minute on offi-cially hostile territory, Trump escorted Kim back over the line into South Korea, where the two briefly addressed a scrum of journalists before slipping in-side the building known as Free-dom House for a private con-versation along with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea. Trump said he would invite Kim to visit him at the White House.
“This has a lot of significance because it means that we want to bring an end to the unpleas-ant past and try to create a new future,” Kim told reporters. “So it’s a very courageous and deter-mined act.”
“Stepping across that line was a great honor,” Trump replied. “A lot of progress has been
Leaders hold hourlong summit at DMZ to restart nuclear talksBy PETER BAKER AND MICHAEL CROWLEYNEW YORK TIMES
TURN TO TRUMP » PAGE A6
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The two world leaders met Sunday at the Demilitarized Zone separating North Korea and South Korea
