Why do anything right, when you can do it yourself?

This cruelly accurate DIY home-repair observation seems to animate California’s elected officials as well — dooming an eminently logical bill by Sen. Tom Umberg that had stunningly bipartisan support.

The death of Senate Bill 913 is tragic, but not at all surprising. It would have simply empowered local governments to help overburdened state regulators handle complaints about state-licensed addiction treatment centers.

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