A formal dedication Wednesday will mark the beginning of work on the biggest civic project in the county’s history. At high noon, city, county, and state officials will gather at the historic Ukiah Train Depot to witness what has taken 20 years to become a reality.

Two University of California law schools have announced they will each have a Supreme Court justice delivering a keynote address at their graduation ceremonies. Justice Leondra Kruger will address UCLA Law’s graduates and UC Davis has scheduled alumna Justice Kelli Evans to speak to its class of 2025.

When the State Bar recently made a by-the-way disclosure towards the end of a press release that some February bar exam questions “were developed with the assistance of” artificial intelligence, it was news to the Supreme Court. Now, the court — which has ultimate authority over attorney licensing — wants answers.

The court granted review in Town of Apple Valley v. Apple Valley Ranchos Water, and it limited review to this issue: “When a public entity files an eminent domain action seeking to take privately held public utility property, and the owner objects to the right to take, what is the proper standard of judicial review for the trial court to apply to determine whether the property owner has rebutted the presumptions under Code of Civil Procedure sections 1245.250, subdivision (b) and 1240.650, subdivision (c)?”