With 2024 campaigns heating up, immigration politics are as well, and we can expect the election cycle to bring much fire and brimstone. Sadly, as has long been the case in U.S. history, immigrants will likely suffer as a result of the political maneuverings. Seeking to establish his tough immigration enforcement...
Here’s Why Downtown Fresno Has a $250 Million Earmark in Newsom’s Budget
In his May budget revise, Gov. Gavin Newsom pitched spending $250 million on infrastructure and transportation improvements in downtown Fresno. The money will fund much of the city’s decade-long plans to revitalize its decaying water and sewer systems and improve amenities such as parking and sidewalks, to ultimately attract residential...
Here’s Why Downtown Fresno Has a $250 Million Earmark in Newsom’s Budget
In his May budget revise, Gov. Gavin Newsom pitched spending $250 million on infrastructure and transportation improvements in downtown Fresno. The money will fund much of the city’s decade-long plans to revitalize its decaying water and sewer systems and improve amenities such as parking and sidewalks, to ultimately attract residential...
State Farm Won’t Sell New Home Insurance in CA. Can State Shore up the Market?
State Farm made national headlines last week when it said it would stop selling new home insurance policies in California. As California’s largest single provider of bundle home insurance policies — the company had 20% of the market in 2021 — the news struck some as the beginning of a fresh emergency,...
State Farm Won’t Sell New Home Insurance in CA. Can State Shore up the Market?
State Farm made national headlines last week when it said it would stop selling new home insurance policies in California. As California’s largest single provider of bundle home insurance policies — the company had 20% of the market in 2021 — the news struck some as the beginning of a fresh emergency,...
Bill to Curb Police Use of K-9s Falls, Free Condoms for HS Students Moves Ahead
Today’s the deadline for bills to pass their first house in the California Legislature. The vast majority made it. A few failed. And a handful of intriguing bills that didn’t pass may resurface because their authors aren’t giving up. Police dogs: On Wednesday, a bill that would curb the use...
Bill to Curb Police Use of K-9s Falls, Free Condoms for HS Students Moves Ahead
Today’s the deadline for bills to pass their first house in the California Legislature. The vast majority made it. A few failed. And a handful of intriguing bills that didn’t pass may resurface because their authors aren’t giving up. Police dogs: On Wednesday, a bill that would curb the use...
With Chronic Absenteeism on the Rise, Why Is California Making School Transportation Harder?
Graduation season is always a bittersweet time for me. It serves as a reminder of all that I’ve accomplished and how proud I am of how far I’ve come. But it’s also a reminder of how close I came to not graduating from high school. I grew up in a...
With Chronic Absenteeism on the Rise, Why Is California Making School Transportation Harder?
Graduation season is always a bittersweet time for me. It serves as a reminder of all that I’ve accomplished and how proud I am of how far I’ve come. But it’s also a reminder of how close I came to not graduating from high school. I grew up in a...
Will Newsom CEQA Reform Package Be Among CA’s Next New Laws?
Just in time to go home for Memorial Day weekend, legislators bulldozed their way through a bunch of bills at the end of this week to beat the even bigger deluge next week, when there’s a Friday deadline to pass remaining bills through the house where they were introduced. Some...