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California Legislative Office Facilities

November 2, 2024 3:42 pmNovember 2, 2024 3:42 pm

Article 5.5 deals with legislative office facilities. Section 9115 provides that, in order to adequately provide for the proper housing and administrative requirements of the Legislature, it is necessary for the Legislature to acquire and finance additional legislative office facilities...

Cancel Culture Comes for California’s Sutter Buttes Mountain Range

August 4, 2024 11:07 amAugust 5, 2024 3:11 pm

No one can rewrite history. Renaming statues, parks, museums, schools or even mountain ranges does not change history, regardless of whether they are named after Confederate military leaders, racially-biased political figures, Native American tribes or “Swiss Colonizers.” And the people...

Pro-Palestinian Protests Force California Assembly Adjournment

January 4, 2024 2:45 amJanuary 4, 2024 2:46 am

The California Assembly went into recess and then was abruptly adjourned on Wednesday in Sacramento following a demonstration by a large group of Pro-Palestinian protestors. Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas War in October, several political and state events have...

Ignorant Cancel Culture Comes for 3 Sacramento City Schools

June 27, 2023 8:20 amJune 28, 2023 6:25 am

In June 2020, CBS13 reported on a Sacramento woman who announced that she wanted to change the name of Sutter Middle School, named after John Sutter, famous for the discovery of gold on the American River, after reports that he...

CA State Capitol Evacuated Following ‘Credible Threat’ by Known Shooting Suspect

April 13, 2023 5:37 pmApril 13, 2023 5:39 pm

The California State Capitol in Sacramento was closed for several hours Thursday when a man linked to a hospital window shooting incident in Roseville the day before made a “credible threat” on the Capitol Building. On Wednesday, 30-year-old Jackson Pinney...

Junipero Serra Statue On State Capitol Grounds To Be Replaced By Native American Memorial

September 27, 2021 3:25 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill over the weekend that replaces the now toppled state of Father Junipero Serra on the grounds of the State Capitol Building with a monument for Native Americans who lived in the Sacramento area before...

Gov. Newsom Announces National Guard Activation for Protests Next Week

January 14, 2021 6:07 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he will be activating up to 1,000 California National Guard troops to help protect the Capitol Building and ‘critical state infrastructure’ in preparation for planned armed protests next week during President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. In...