SACRAMENTO — Long before Harmeet Dhillon became the leader of the legal fight against California's stay-at-home order, she was a new elementary school student in North Carolina uncomfortable because she didn't know the Christian prayer her classmates recited every morning. She told her mother, who had studied the Constitution for...
Controversial Housing Grant Program Returns to Fresno Council
The Fresno City Council will vote on an amended aid program on Thursday that a civil rights group claimed was illegal in its prior form. Authored by councilmembers Esmeralda Soria, Luis Chavez, and Paul Caprioglio, the legislation creates a $1.5 million Housing Retention Grant Program. Also in Politics 101: Fresno County...
Bredefeld Says He’s Looking to Sue to Reopen Fresno
Fresno City Councilman Garry Bredefeld will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. Tuesday to make a "major announcement" that he hopes will expedite the reopening of businesses. As part of Mayor Lee Brand's coronavirus emergency declaration on March 16, City Manager Wilma Quan ordered all "non-essential" businesses to close....
5 Teachers Sue California Union Over Forced Dues Collection
SAN FRANCISCO — Five California educators on Monday filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the state's top teachers union from collecting dues through mandatory paycheck deductions, the latest in a series of similar legal challenges filed across the country. The lawsuit challenging the California Teachers Association's mandatory collection of dues...
SF Allows Noncitizens to Vote in School Board Election
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco has become the largest U.S. city to give people in the country illegally and other noncitizens the right to vote in a local election, but the possibility of the Trump administration learning their identities appears to have kept people away: only 35 noncitizens have registered....