Governor Newsom Announces Appointments 10.5.23
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Rick Braziel, of Truckee, has been appointed to the Advisory Council on Improving Interactions between People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Law Enforcement. Braziel has been President of Rick Braziel Consulting Inc. since 2016 and an Instructor at California State University, Humboldt since 2000. […]
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Arkansas receives $785 million for infrastructure from Biden-Harris administration
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Biden-Harris Administration will give Arkansas $785 million for the 2024 Fiscal Year to improve infrastructure. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration said the money will be divided for 12 programs improving the state’s roads, bridges and tunnels, carbon emission reduction, and safety improvements, as well as workforce development […]
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Biden plans face-to-face meeting with China’s Xi Jinping in California
Comment on this storyComment The White House has begun making plans for a November meeting in San Francisco between President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping — an attempt to stabilize the relationship between the world’s two most powerful countries, according to senior administration officials. “It’s pretty firm” there will be a meeting, said one […]
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City Council refines policy on housing developments — Merced County Times | #citycouncil
The Merced City Council voted to reduce the city’s affordable unit production requirement for residential developments in new annexation areas, and also created an in-lieu fee structure to assist housing projects in general during a lengthy meeting on Monday night. The issue of creating more affordable housing in Merced has been raging at City Hall […]
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Column: Feinstein reigns one last day at San Francisco memorial
SAN FRANCISCO — For one last day, Dianne Feinstein reigned. She reigned over this lovely, enchanted, vexing and deeply troubled city. The city where she was born, the city that nurtured and sustained and tortured her, and sometimes broke her heart. Dignitaries arrived and tributes flowed from around the country as those closest to the late […]
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New congressional district map carves up Alabama’s second largest county | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
The Austal USA manufacturing facility will continue building warships within Alabama’s 1st congressional district, but the company’s visitor’s center is now in Alabama’s 2nd congressional district. In downtown Mobile, museums and attractions are between the two congressional districts, depending on which side of Water Street they are on. And further south into Tillman’s Corner, the […]
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California expands minimum paid sick leave to five days
hands of a female doctor holding a thermometer with a patient’s high temperature in hand (FOX40.COM) — California workers will legally be entitled to accrue up to five days, up from three, of paid sick leave starting next year. Senate Bill 616, introduced by Senator Lena Gonzales (D-Long Beach), was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. […]
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Former Arkansas state Rep. Jay Martin announces bid for Supreme Court chief justice | KTVE
FILE – Jay Martin talks to reporters at the Arkansas state Capitol, Feb. 22, 2022, in Little Rock, Ark. On Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, Martin, a former Arkansas legislator who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic gubernatorial nomination last year, announced that he is running for chief justice of the state Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo, File) […]
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California prison system unveils new solitary confinement rules
After Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation to limit the extensive use of solitary confinement in California’s prisons, his administration announced lesser changes Thursday that would place fewer inmates in isolation cells and allow them more time outdoors. Unlike the bill that Newsom rejected last year, and a similar measure approved by lawmakers this year, the […]
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How This Small Nonprofit Helped Save California’s Elephant Seals | Science
Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent I hear them long before I see them. As I clamber out of my car in the parking lot near Point Piedras Blancas just off California’s Highway 1, the grunting noises of dozens of elephant seals fill the air. I walk quickly to the wooden viewing platform, lean up against the […]
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