-A $114 million “butterfly and cougar bridge” becomes the unofficial symbol of government spending gone completely off the rails (and possibly unnecessary for creatures that can already fly).

-California’s “homeless industrial complex” gets exposed as a billion-dollar hamster wheel where the problem grows faster than the funding.

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