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Bill Banning Sale of New Small Gas-Powered Engine Machines Introduced in Assembly

March 31, 2021 2:24 amJune 18, 2021 4:08 pm

A new bill that would phase out the sale of new gas-powered small off-road engines (SORE) by 2024 was introduced in the Assembly Monday. Assembly Bill 1346, authored by Assemblyman Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego),...

Solving California’s Urban Water Scarcity

March 31, 2021 2:15 amMarch 30, 2021 4:09 pm

A study by the Public Policy Institute of California in 2019 found that per capita urban water use in the state has dropped consistently over the years, from 231 gallons per day in 1990 to 180 gallons per day in 2010, then...

Migrant Children at San Diego Convention Center to Receive In-Person Teaching

March 30, 2021 5:59 pmMarch 30, 2021 7:11 pm

The San Diego County Board of Education announced Tuesday they would be sending California public school teachers to the temporary migrant center at the San Diego Convention Center, to teach the hundreds of migrant children who crossed into the country...

Sacramento’s Cannabis Cronyism

March 30, 2021 4:39 pmMarch 30, 2021 3:28 pm

Last week we reported California’s legal recreational and medicinal cannabis industry is not only “the biggest government-sanctioned market in the nation,” but also the “biggest legal marijuana market in the world,” according to a new report issued by the Government Accountability Institute. However, the reach...

California Senators, Representatives Push For Year-Round Wildfire Fighting Services

March 30, 2021 2:45 pm

On Monday, 23 Californian Senators and members of Congress sent a letter to the Departments of Agriculture and Interior, asking that they make wildland firefighters available year round instead of seasonal to combat the growing out-of-season wildfire threats in California...

Parents Called ‘White Supremacists’ by Sacramento Teacher For Demanding Schools Reopen

March 30, 2021 10:31 amApril 1, 2021 6:50 am

Parents calling for in-person learning and supportive of the online group Reopen California Schools got an earful over the weekend. A teacher who lives in West Sacramento but teaches at Kennedy High School in the Sacramento City Unified District went...

California High Speed Rail Authority Faces Another Two Year Delay in Construction

March 30, 2021 7:13 amApril 1, 2021 6:46 am

A released letter from Spanish construction firm Dragados Monday found that the opening of the California high speed rail stretch between Bakersfield and Merced was likely to be delayed by another two years. In a letter obtained by the Los...