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LA DA Jackie Lacey Suddenly Struggling

April 10, 2019 11:15 amApril 11, 2019 6:38 am

Does Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey have a re-election problem on her hands? The county’s first African-American and woman to hold the office was first elected in 2012 and ran unopposed in 2016. But ahead of her 2020 re-election...

Competitive Academic Program ‘Too White’ For Sacramento City School District Officials

April 3, 2019 7:49 pmApril 5, 2019 7:47 am

In early March, parents of Sacramento’s C.K. McClatchy High School took to social media expressing their outrage and frustration when their kids, who had already received letters congratulating them on being accepted to the school’s rigorous academic Humanities and International...

Black Lives Matter Activists Arrested in Sacramento For Protesting DA’s Luncheon Meeting

March 29, 2019 9:12 amApril 11, 2019 11:46 am

Thursday was a day of reckoning for Sacramento’s Black Lives Matter activists. Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert was the guest speaker at a luncheon for the Women Lawyers of Sacramento, at a downtown restaurant, when her meeting was interrupted...

Senator Moorlach Pushes Back Against Needle Exchange

March 12, 2019 8:17 amMarch 12, 2019 8:17 am

Opioid drug use is becoming an ever-larger nationwide issue but there is not yet agreement on how best to combat the problem. Some communities are pushing back on some of the more controversial harm reduction efforts like needle exchange programs...

UC Davis Diversity Dodge

March 7, 2019 4:34 pmMarch 8, 2019 11:14 am

As the Davis Enterprise reports, the University of California at Davis has created a new position, “vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion,” in order to “engage more effectively with the recruitment and retention of the best and brightest students,...

California Parents Sue to Block ‘Creeping, Social Justice Warrior’ Instruction in Schools

March 6, 2019 3:07 pmMarch 7, 2019 9:38 am

Los Angeles attorney Eric Early, working with a group of Santa Barbara parents and teachers over ‘Unconscious Bias’ curriculum, filed a federal lawsuit in December in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of Fair...

California Mass Murderer Juan Corona Dies at 85

March 5, 2019 7:50 pmMarch 5, 2019 7:46 pm

“California State Prison-Corcoran inmate Juan Vallejo Corona, 85, died of natural causes at 8:15 a.m. on Monday, March 4,” the California Department of Corrections reports. Readers learned that Corona was “serving 25 concurrent life sentences for 25 counts of first-degree...