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What Lil Nas X has to do with a debate over CA mental health law
In the battle over whether to change a California crime law, both supporters and critics are waging their campaign not only through crime statistics but also by invoking harrowing anecdotes — including one involving American rapper Lil Nas X. As Gagandeep Singh for CalMatters explains, legislators are advancing a bill that would lower the threshold […]
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According to CalMatters’s source item, What Lil Nas X has to do with a debate over CA mental health law, In the battle over whether to change a California crime law, both supporters and critics are waging their campaign not only through crime statistics but also by invoking harrowing anecdotes — including one involving American rapper Lil Nas X. As Gagandeep Singh for CalMatters explains, legislators are advancing a bill that would lower the threshold […]
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