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UCLA Students Protest Lawsuit Alleging That UC Still Uses Race-Based Admission Decisions

April 24, 2025 9:00 amApril 24, 2025 9:01 am

Close to 100 students protested at UCLA over the weekend, rallying against a Students Against Racial Discrimination (SARD) lawsuit that says that the UC system still uses race-based decisions in admissions despite state and federal law already banning the practice....

California Reparations Bill Passed in Assembly Judiciary Committee

April 23, 2025 2:45 amApril 23, 2025 2:46 am

A reparations bill aimed at giving at least 10% of funds from California Housing Finance Agency’s home purchase assistance program to qualified individuals who are descendants of formerly enslaved people continued to move up in the Assembly Judiciary Committee on...

Bill to Halt Universities From Punishing Students Who Call 911 For Overdoses Awaits Vote In Assm.

April 22, 2025 6:07 pmApril 22, 2025 6:07 pm

A new bill that would stop colleges and universities from academically punishing students who call 911 for help with overdoses continued to await being heard by a committee this week following a massive rewrite last month. Assembly Bill 602, authored...

One Year After Fatal Mountain Lion Attack, Partisan Democrats Inflict More Harm on Brooks Family

April 22, 2025 3:24 pmApril 23, 2025 3:56 pm

UPDATE BELOW: Partisan politics was on full display at the California State Capitol Tuesday, with Democrats using their supermajority to kill an important Republican bill, just because they can. A tragic mountain lion attack in 2024, which killed one El...

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Proposes 1,647 City Employee Layoffs Amidst Huge $1 Billion Budget Gap

April 22, 2025 2:20 pmApril 22, 2025 2:20 pm

During her state of the city address on Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced several cuts and rollbacks in the city budget to close the nearly $1 billion city budget deficit, including the layoffs of 1,600 employees and the...

Steve Hilton Announces Run For Governor

April 21, 2025 4:27 pmApril 21, 2025 4:29 pm

In an announcement on Monday, Steve Hilton, former Director of Strategy for then-British Prime Minister David Cameron and former Fox News host said that he would be running for Governor of California in 2026, becoming the second big-name Republican to...

Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Parent’s Case Against Chico School District for Gender Transition

April 21, 2025 4:11 pmApril 21, 2025 4:11 pm

In a victory for parental rights, the United States District Court for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco has reinstated the lawsuit that Chico mother Aurora Regina filed against the Chico Unified School District for transitioning her daughter without her...