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Taxpayers cover tuition at California’s for-profit schools. The results? Low-wage, high-turnover jobs
California officials have warned students for years that for-profit schools may make misleading career claims — leaving them with "a mountain of debt" but no job. Still, many for-profit schools remain on the state’s list of recommended job training programs.
‘Giving Voice to Things I Stuffed Away’: The War Horse Brings Writing Seminar to Incarcerated Veterans Inside Walls of San Quentin
This spring, The War Horse hosted our seventh writing seminar in our most unique setting yet—inside the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, formerly known as California’s San Quentin State Prison. We helped give voice to the powerful stories of 18 incarcerated veterans, thanks to the generous support of donors...
Explainer-Big Tech wants AI to be regulated. Why do they oppose a California AI bill?
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -California legislators are set to vote on a bill as soon as this week that would broadly regulate how artificial intelligence is developed and deployed in California even as a number of tech giants have voiced broad opposition.
Oregon drug traffickers with ties to California, Colorado, and Mexico sentenced to prison
(The Center Square) – An Oregon-based drug trafficking cell leader with ties to a large Mexico-based drug trafficking organization received a federal prison sentence this week after an investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Horacio Luna-Perez, 42, of Hillsboro, Oregon, got a 97-month federal prison sentence and five years’ supervised release, according to the […]
San Bernardino County better off not seceding from California, study shows
A new study analyzing the funding and rationale behind San Bernardino County's possible secession from the state of California reveals that they're probably better off staying put."Secession would trigger a wide variety of economic impacts countywide alongside fiscal impacts on the county government, local municipal governments, and school districts," the memo attached to the study said. Voters in 2022 approved the research report with Measure EE, which included the possibility of the county leaving the Golden State depending on the results. Monday's report, released by Blue Sky Consulting Group, shows that San Bernardino actually gets more per capita funding and generates far...
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