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How Will the Health Care Ruling Impact Medi-Cal?

This week's Supreme Court decision upholding President Obama's Affordable Care Act is a bright green light for health care reform in California. And one of the state agencies responsible for implementing the ACA is the Department of Health Care Services. We talk to the department's director Toby Douglas about how the ruling will affect California's expansion of Medi-Cal.

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All-Male College in Fight to Admit Women

School may be out for summer, but in Inyo County, Deep Springs College is getting ready to start its academic year. The tiny liberal arts college has just 27 students, who together run a cattle farm and alfalfa ranch near the eastern Sierra town of Lone Pine. At the end of a two-year program, many move on to finish their degrees at prestigious universities. For 95 years, all of these students have been men. But if a legal dispute resolves next month, next year's entering class at this unique institution could include women.Reporter: Molly Peterson

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Stockton Declares Bankruptcy

Stockton, California is now the largest U.S. city to declare bankruptcy. The City filed for Chapter 9 protection Thursday after failing to find another way out of its $26 million budget shortfall. What happens next? We talk to Scott Smith, a City Hall reporter for the Stockton Record.

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Pop Music Review: Ty Segall Band's 'Slaughterhouse'

"Prolific" doesn't quite cover it for Ty Segall, who since 2005 has released dozens of albums, singles and side projects, first with various Orange County indie bands and then as a San Francisco solo artist. But pop music critic Steve Hochman says that with Segall, quality seems to go hand-in-hand with quantity.

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In Silver Lake, Saying Goodbye to The Other Side

Last weekend, the Silver Lake neighborhood in Los Angeles said goodbye to a much-loved icon: The Other Side piano bar. The watering hole's closing was a sign of the tough economy and the neighborhood's changing demographics.Reporter: Colin Berry