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A company owned byHouseMajoMajoMa rity LeaderKev-in McCarthy’s in-laws wonmore than $7 million in no-bid and other federal con-tracts atU.S.military instal-lations and other govern-ment properties in Califor-niabasedonadubiousclaimof Native American identityby McCarthy’s brother-in-law,lala a Times inveinin stigationhas found.

The prime contracts,awarded through a federalprogram designed to helpdisadvantaged minorities,weweremostly forconstructionprojects at the Naval AirWeapons Station ChinaLake inMcCarthy’s Bakers-field-based district, and theNaval Air Station Lemooreinnearbynearnear KingsCounty.

Vortex Construction,whoswhose principal owner isWilliam Wages, the brotherofof McMcCarCartthyhy’s’s wifewife,, JuJudydy,,dydydydy rere-

ceived a total of $7.6 millionin no-bid and other primefederal contracts since 2000,TheTimes found.

The Bakersfieldersfieldersf com-pany is co-owned byMcCar-thy’smother-in-lawin-lawin-la and em-ploys his father-in-lawin-lawin-la andsister-in-law,law,la Wages said.McCarthy’s wife was a part-ner in Vortex in the earlyearly1990s.

Vortex faced no competi-tive bids formost of the con-tracts because the SmallBusiness Administrationaccepted Wages’ claim in1998 thathe isaCherokee In-dian. Under the SBA pro-gram, his company becameeligible for federal contractsset aside for economicallyllyand socially disadvantagedmembers of minorityygroups, a boon to its busi-ness.

Wages says he is one-eighth Cherokee. An exami-nation of government andtribal records by The Timesand a leading Cherokee ge-

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FONTANA,FONTFONT Calif. — Looking at amap of California on a projectorscreen, JohannesMoenius, an econo-mics professor at the University ofRedlands, hoveredhismouse over theInland Empire, which glowed with asplotchof redpixels.

Thecoloreddots signifiednifnif howsus-ceptible an areawould be to job lossescaused by automation. And thealarm-bell red that coveredRiveRiRi rside,SanBernardino andOntario signaledhigh risk — roughly 63% of tasks per-formedbyworkers intheareacouldbeautautomatomateded inin thethe futfuturure.e.

To Moenius, the rise of robots inwarehouses, factories and fast-foodrestaurants presents danger forplaces like the Inland Empire, wheremost residents work in logistics andthe service industry and just 21%2121 ofadults havehaha a four-year degree. Astechnology transforms the nature ofwork in California, how do peoplemostatrisk findtheirwaywawa tonewjobs?

“We’r“W“W e facing a major challenge,”Moeniussaid. “Ifwedon’tdoanything,then itwill turn into anapocalypse.”

Whether confronfnf nting an increas-inglyautomatedlabormarkemarmar torgrap-pling with how the gig economy is re-shaping the relationship betweencompanies and their workerr rs, Califor-nia’s next governor will havehaha to ad-drdressess thethe chchangangingingnatnatururee ofofwoworrk.k.rrrr

Thatcouldmeanrethinkinghowtoeducate Californians, remaking laborlaborlawslala orconsideringmajorsocial safetyynetproposalssuchasauniversalbasicincome. State government might notbeabletocontrolchangeangang sweepingtheworkplace, but itwill havehaha todealwiththe fallout.

The coming years “will make ororbreakCalifornia,”saidEloyOrtizOak-ley,leyley chancellor of the state’s communi-ty collegeegeg system.

“If we don’t find a way to providethe skills and education and trainingtrainingnecessary for the majority of Califor-nians,” he said, “there’s going to be aalot more havehaha -nots than we havehaha to-day.”dayday

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Chris Toledo has gone to painstak-ing lengths to build the home of hisdreams.

Hedrewthepatterns—basedonan-tiques — for every one of his eightstained-glassd-glassd-g windows.He shaped deli-cate scroll railings for his Juliet bal-conies. He laid nearly 6,000 barrel tiles,onebyone, onhis rooftooftoof p.

For the last two years, he’s obsessedover every detail of his 1920s SpanishMediterraneanhouse.

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VALLE DE LOS CAI-DOS, Spain — On a quietmorning at the foot of theimposingmausoleumwherethe remains of Spain’s for-mer dictator FranciscoFranco lie, a lone man lifteliftelif da red and yellow flag highabovehis head.

“Viva Franco!” shoutedJoseMariaMartinez Fuego,69, his booming voice echo-ing across the bright plazaas a crush of tourists tookokphotos of the looming struc-ture and the 500-foot-tallcross perched on the hillabove.

MartinezFuegoegoeg visits theVaValley of the Fallen, an aus-terebasilicahousingtheuni-dentifiedifiedif remains of thou-sands of Spanish Civil Warrsoldiers, two days a weekekwithwith his dictatorship-eraflag in tow.tow.tow A former securityyguard for the “Caudillo,” asFranco supporters still callhim, Martinez Fuego hasspent the last severalmonths protesting the ex-pected exhumation of thedictator’s remains from themausoleum built into themountains 30 miles outside

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JustinTurn-er held thebathigh inhis leftleflef handandwavewawa d ittoward thedisappearingbaseball as ifwieldiwieldingamagicwand.

Onceagain,agag hewas.Mygoodness, theDod-

gers’ red-bearded luckycharmhasdone it again,again,agunleashinganOctoberblast, eliciting gasps, rescu-inga team, savingsavingsa a season.

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shaggy sweat.That felt good?For all

thoseDodgersDodgDodg fans resusci-tatedbyanotherbreath-taking J.T.moment, thedramatic starwasdealing inrareunderstatement.

Almost exactly one yearafteafaf r beating theChicagoChicagChicagCubs in theplayoffsoffoff with amemorablewalk-offlklk blast,Turnerdidprettymuch thesame thingatnearly thesame timeSaturdayagainstagagtheMilwaukeeBrewers, hiseighth-inning, two-runhome run soaring into theseconddeck in leftleftlef field atMillerParkParkPar to givegivegi theDod-gers a comeback 4-3 victoryandbringback themost

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