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UC admits 'largest, most diverse class' in history for fall 2024
The University of California system is celebrating a major milestone. They announced on Wednesday that the university has admitted its "largest and most diverse class" in its history.The University says this is driven by significant increases in the number of California residents, underrepresented students and community college transfer students offered fall admission."It's part of our mission of the University of California is to really be a change agent for the state and to represent the broad diversity of the state," said Han Mi Yoon-Wu, the associate vice provost and executive director of Undergraduate Admissions for the University of California.The UC...
Fast food workers ask state for further wage increases
photo credit: Cole Reynolds/Bay City NewsSan Jose members of the California Fast Food Workers Union.The California Fast Food Workers Union is urging the state to again raise the minimum wage for fast-food employees.According to a letter sent to the statewide Fast Food Council last month, the union is asking for a $20.70 wage starting in 2025 and a $21.40 wage in 2026. The proposed yearly 3.5% increase is a response to rising inflation, the letter said.The council was formed to establish wages and regulations for the fast-food industry through legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September 2023. That legislation also...
School year already underway at some California districts as start dates keep creeping earlier
Children wearing colorful new backpacks, parents in tow, hugged and high-fived Principal Gina Lopez and other school staff as they streamed under an arch of multicolored balloons, accompanied by pulsating music, on the first day of school at George Washington Elementary School in Lodi on Tuesday. Lodi Unified in San...
VIDEO: Brentwood Police Arrest 18-Year-Old Suspected of $80K Organized Retail Theft in Bay Area
On Sunday, the Brentwood Police Department reported the arrest of Taylor Martin, an 18-year-old resident identified as a prolific organized retail thief. Martin was apprehended while sitting in a vehicle near Raley's at 2400 Sand Creek Road, with a Brentwood officer recognizing her from prior theft incidents. The arrest occurred, notably without incident, in the Brentwood area.
Undocumented immigrants should soon be able to get state cell service subsidy
The California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed decision last week that the California Universal LifeLine Telephone Service Program, which offers discounted cell service, will be offered to Californians without a Social Security number.
California governor orders streamlining housing development using federal funds
(The Center Square) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order demanding the state streamline housing development and determine how to use federal climate change funding towards housing as a climate mitigation element. Housing experts note that Newsom’s suggestions could reduce the cost of building housing by as much as 30%. “Success could reduce the price of building by 10-30 percent,” said Louis Mirante, Vice President of Public Policy...
L.A. County Sheriff says Newsom’s executive order won’t alter homelessness approach
After Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order calling on local governments to remove homeless encampments, L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna said nothing is changing for his department’s approach.
California Lost 420K Public School Kids in 4 Years — & May Drop 1M More by 2031
California public school enrollment passed the 5 million mark in 1991. That number quickly grew to 6 million by 1999 and then reached 6.4 million students in 2004. Then, the growth machine stalled. California has long seen a large percentage of its residents move to other states, but international immigration and high birth rates more […]
Park Fire jeopardizing California's spring-run Chinook, one of state's most iconic species
California's fifth largest wildfire is encroaching on some of the last strongholds for imperiled salmon, with potentially devastating consequences for a species already on the brink. The explosive Park Fire has spread into the Mill and Deer Creek watersheds in Tehama County, which are two of the three remaining creeks where wild, independent populations of spring-run Chinook, a threatened species, still spawn in the Central Valley. If the Park Fire climbs to higher altitudes, federal and state officials said it could strike the final deathblow to the region's spring-run salmon, which are already at risk of extinction."It's really concerning. It's...
Tenants’ rights groups press lawmakers to rein in corporate landlords
Tenant’s rights groups are asking policymakers to move on several fronts to rein in corporate landlords who they said are worsening California’s housing crisis. Advocates said after the private equity firm Blackstone bought 5,600 apartments in the San Diego area in 2021, the company began squeezing out tenants in order to aggressively raise rents.
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