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California Announces Funding for Projects to Conserve Agricultural Land and Fight Climate Change

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 28, 2023
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California Announces Funding for Projects to Conserve Agricultural Land and Fight Climate Change

Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – It is a program that has awarded $373 million to date, conservin ...

Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – It is a program that has awarded $373 million to date, conserving more than 194,000 acres of agricultural land across California. On Thursday, the Governor’s ...

April 28, 2023
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Cities Want Funding for Homelessness but Are Opposing New Housing Solutions

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 17, 2023
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Cities Want Funding for Homelessness but Are Opposing New Housing Solutions

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor This weekend, the LA Times Editorial Board called out city and cou ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor This weekend, the LA Times Editorial Board called out city and county officials who on the one hand rallied in Sacramento last week to demand $3 billion in state ...

April 17, 2023
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Weather Conditions in California Have Devastatingly Impacted Homeless Populations

Posted by The Vanguard at Berkeley
|Date: April 12, 2023
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Weather Conditions in California Have Devastatingly Impacted Homeless Populations

Photo Attribution: Cyanidethistles, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, ...

Photo Attribution: Cyanidethistles, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By Sheila Teker Since the beginning of 2023, California has been hit by ...

April 12, 2023
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Senator Wiener Introduces Bill to Make Overturning Wrongful Convictions Easier

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: January 22, 2023
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Senator Wiener Introduces Bill to Make Overturning Wrongful Convictions Easier

By Kaylee Pearlman and Daphne Ho SACRAMENTO, CA - Senate Bill 97—introduced last week by CA State Senator ...

By Kaylee Pearlman and Daphne Ho SACRAMENTO, CA - Senate Bill 97—introduced last week by CA State Senator Scott Wiener (D-SF)—would make the process easier for the wrongfully convicted to prove their ...

January 22, 2023
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Recap of Monkeypox Outbreak in California and What to Know about the Disease

Posted by The Vanguard at Berkeley
|Date: October 26, 2022
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Recap of Monkeypox Outbreak in California and What to Know about the Disease

By Maritza Ramirez Since the start of the monkeypox epidemic in May 2022, two of California ...

By Maritza Ramirez Since the start of the monkeypox epidemic in May 2022, two of California’s most populous cities, San Francisco and Los Angeles, have been the most heavily affected in ...

October 26, 2022
| by The Vanguard at Berkeley

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California Bans State-Funded Travel to Five New States over Their Passage of New Anti-LGBTQ Laws

Posted by Joshua Vega
|Date: July 03, 2021
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California Bans State-Funded Travel to Five New States over Their Passage of New Anti-LGBTQ Laws

By Joshua Vega SACRAMENTO, CA – As of this week, California has now placed new travel restrictions to the ...

By Joshua Vega SACRAMENTO, CA – As of this week, California has now placed new travel restrictions to the states of Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia over the passage of new ...

July 03, 2021
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California to Allow Election Day Registration to be Available at Every California Polling Site

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 24, 2019
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California to Allow Election Day Registration to be Available at Every California Polling Site

Governor Newsom earlier this month signed SB 72, legislation introduced by State Senator Thomas J. Umberg ...

Governor Newsom earlier this month signed SB 72, legislation introduced by State Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D-Santa Ana) to allow all eligible Californians to register to vote and cast a ballot at all ...

October 24, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Report Finds Statewide Crisis of Basic Needs Insecurity in California Higher Ed

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 28, 2018
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Report Finds Statewide Crisis of Basic Needs Insecurity in California Higher Ed

The Speaker’s Office of Research and Floor Analysis has recently put out an overview of basic needs insec ...

The Speaker’s Office of Research and Floor Analysis has recently put out an overview of basic needs insecurity issues in California’s public higher education system. “Food and housing insecurity is a ...

July 28, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Lawmakers’ Failure to Solve the Roads Funding Crisis is a Disadvantage to Every Community

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: September 06, 2016
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Lawmakers’ Failure to Solve the Roads Funding Crisis is a Disadvantage to Every Community

By Leanna Sweha The Legislature ended its two-year general session last week without a solution to the ro ...

By Leanna Sweha The Legislature ended its two-year general session last week without a solution to the roads crisis. Although the special legislative session on transportation funding runs until the ...

September 06, 2016
| by Leanna Sweha

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Analysis: Does Statewide Plastic Bag Referendum Even Matter?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 31, 2015
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Analysis: Does Statewide Plastic Bag Referendum Even Matter?

In February a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags was put on hold as the industry succeeded in quali ...

In February a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags was put on hold as the industry succeeded in qualified a referendum for the November 2016 ballot. But as more and more local communities have alr ...

December 31, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Wolk Picks Up More Big Endorsements in the Assembly Race

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 13, 2015
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Wolk Picks Up More Big Endorsements in the Assembly Race

Earlier this week, the Dan Wolk for State Assembly Campaign announced that Mr. Wolk had received, in his ...

Earlier this week, the Dan Wolk for State Assembly Campaign announced that Mr. Wolk had received, in his campaign for the 4th Assembly District, the endorsement of former Congressman Vic Fazio. Fazio ...

November 13, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Governor Signs Groundbreaking Bill to Combat Racial Profiling

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 04, 2015
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Governor Signs Groundbreaking Bill to Combat Racial Profiling

On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 953, The Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 ...

On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 953, The Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015, into California law. The law, AB 953, written by Assemblymember Shirley Weber, requires law e ...

October 04, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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California Will Become First in Nation to Collect All Data on Police Traffic Stops

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 12, 2015
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California Will Become First in Nation to Collect All Data on Police Traffic Stops

(From ACLU Press Release) - With a growing chorus of voices demanding systemic police reform, California ...

(From ACLU Press Release) - With a growing chorus of voices demanding systemic police reform, California is poised to pass AB 953: The Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015, the first-of-its-kind ...

September 12, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Bipartisan Plan Would Help Restore Control to School Board

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 21, 2015
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Bipartisan Plan Would Help Restore Control to School Board

This week a bipartisan coalition of legislators held a press conference to announce SB 799, sponsored by ...

This week a bipartisan coalition of legislators held a press conference to announce SB 799, sponsored by Senator Jerry Hill, which introduced legislation that will fix the school budget reserve cap. S ...

August 21, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Polling Finds Solid Majority of California Voters Support Bill to Curb Racial Profiling

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 13, 2015
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Polling Finds Solid Majority of California Voters Support Bill to Curb Racial Profiling

A poll was released yesterday, conducted by Tulchin Research, showing 69 percent of likely California vot ...

A poll was released yesterday, conducted by Tulchin Research, showing 69 percent of likely California voters support AB 953: The Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015, a state bill introduced by A ...

August 13, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Yamada Figures to Be A Formidable Candidate For Senate

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 22, 2015
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Yamada Figures to Be A Formidable Candidate For Senate

In 2008, then-Yolo County Supervisor Mariko Yamada faced long odds in the battle for the open Assembly Se ...

In 2008, then-Yolo County Supervisor Mariko Yamada faced long odds in the battle for the open Assembly Seat against West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon. No one gave her much of a chance, and ye ...

July 22, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Lawns versus Almonds – Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: March 27, 2015
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Lawns versus Almonds – Can’t We All Just Get Along?

By Leanna Sweha Last week, the East Bay Express published an article by Robert Gammon entitled “Californi ...

By Leanna Sweha Last week, the East Bay Express published an article by Robert Gammon entitled “California Targets Wrong Water Wasters.” Reflecting on the state’s emergency water conservation rules, G ...

March 27, 2015
| by Leanna Sweha

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My View II: Does Davis Have the Worst Roads in the County?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 08, 2014
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My View II: Does Davis Have the Worst Roads in the County?

On Thursday the local paper published a story under the provocative headline, “It’s Official: Davis Has t ...

On Thursday the local paper published a story under the provocative headline, “It’s Official: Davis Has the Worst Roads in Yolo County.” My initial reaction is: you’re just figuring this out now? The ...

November 08, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Californians Deliver Resounding Message Against Mass Incarceration

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 05, 2014
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Californians Deliver Resounding Message Against Mass Incarceration

It was the clearest signal to date that Californians are fed up with the growing costs and ineffectivenes ...

It was the clearest signal to date that Californians are fed up with the growing costs and ineffectiveness of mass incarceration. Following the passage of Prop. 36 in 2012, which reduced third strike ...

November 05, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Poll Finds Plastic Bag Ban Has Broad Support

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 04, 2014
| (21) Comments

Poll Finds Plastic Bag Ban Has Broad Support

At the end of September, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 270 into law, prohibiting grocery stores and phar ...

At the end of September, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 270 into law, prohibiting grocery stores and pharmacies from distributing single-use plastic bags after July 2015, and thus aligning state law w ...

November 04, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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