Talks with Harvard are ongoing and despite hints that some kind of compromise might be reached soon, nothing has been formally announced yet. Meanwhile, the Trump administration does seem to be turning its attention toward California. Yesterday Trump’s education department said California was in violation of federal civil rights law. The Trump administration declared on...
Max Matza and Leire Ventas BBC News Reporting fromOxnard, California BBC News The women crouch down motionless, kneeling between endless rows of fruit bushes, almost hidden from view. “Are you from ICE?” one of the women, a farm worker in a hat and purple bandana, asks us fearfully. After assuring her that we’re not with...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. The Yurok people have lived, fished, and hunted along the...
In 2021, California became the first state in the nation to mandate high school students take a one semester ethnic studies class to graduate. The class was set to begin this fall, i.e. the 2025-2026 academic school year. However, there are problems now because under the law, the class can’t become mandatory unless there is...
Gov. Newsom of California is determined to see the high-speed rail system completed or at least started, but the bad news just keeps rolling in like a freight train (pun intended). Newsom is in the process of pushing for next fiscal year’s budget and as part of that process he has announced a plan to...
After the wildfires that swept through LA neighborhoods of Altadena and Pacific Palisades, State Farm (California’s top home insurer) requested an emergency rate hike of 22%. They didn’t get that but yesterday a judge did approve a 17% hike. Administrative Law Judge Karl Frederic Seligman, who oversaw an unusual three-day hearing on the matter last...
The Department of Homeland Security announced an investigation today into a California program which provides cash payments to migrants. The Trump administration announced Monday that it has launched an investigation into California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, a state program that provides monthly cash benefits to aged, blind, and disabled non-citizens who are ineligible for...
This story was originally published in at Prism. San Diego-based attorney Ian Seruelo received three separate reports in March alone about local county Sheriff Kelly Martinez violating California’s immigration policy. The California Values Act, also known as Senate Bill 54 (SB 54), ensures that local law enforcement will not cooperate with immigration authorities to deport...
California Governor Gavin Newsom kicked off this year by symbolically putting the first spikes into California’s long-delayed high speed rail line. Like everything else about this project, the event was a bit misleading. The track being laid in January was not track for an actual high speed train but a siding that would eventually allow...
Feds Create Task Force to Investigate Fraud, Corruption in California’s Homeless Services – HotAir
A potential scandal has been brewing in southern California. Back in February I wrote about what may have been just the tip of the iceberg. The person in charge of the LA Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) was caught signing a $2.1 million contract with her husband’s employer. A LAHSA spokesperson told LAist the contracts had...