Latest line: A good week for water managers, a bad week for shoplifters

Water managers

The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack is at 108% of normal. Reservoirs are at above-average capacity. Barring a total shut-down of precipitation until April, the summer water situation is looking pretty good.

Shoplifters

Under Proposition 36, which took effect Jan. 1, retail thieves now face three years in jail after a third conviction, and prosecutors in some counties are already charging under the new law.

Lyft

After turning its first profitable quarter last year...