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Kaiser and Mental Health Care Workers Reach Tentative Agreement

A long, grueling strike approaches settlement. Its underlying causes remain unaddressed.

Capital & Main

Is Kaiser Dragging Its Feet in Contract Talks With Behavioral Therapists?

With a clinically abysmal mental health care record, the hospital giant has dug in at the bargaining table.

Capital & Main

San Quentin project's $360 million price tag should be slashed, governor's advisory group says

An advisory council says California Gov. Gavin Newsom should slash by at least a third the cost of his $360 million plan to build a campus with classrooms in the notorious San Quentin State Prison

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Sacramento prosecutor sues California’s capital city over failure to clean up homeless encampments

A Sacramento prosecutor is suing California’s capital city over failure to clean up homeless encampments

The Independent UK

Newsom plans to transform San Quentin State Prison. Lawmakers and the public have had little input

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is planning to spend $360 million demolishing a sprawling former furniture factory at San Quentin State Prison and replacing it with something reminiscent of a college campus

The Independent UK

District attorney threatens to charge officials in California's capital over homelessness response

The district attorney in Sacramento is threatening officials in California's capital city with legal actions over the city's handling of the homelessness crisis

The Independent UK

As San Quentin prison vows to transform, its residents ask: is change possible?

Inside California’s oldest prison, a mix of hope and fear as the governor’s $380m plan to ‘reimagine’ incarceration begins

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Racist, antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ flyers blanket lawns in Sacramento and county neighborhoods

Racist, antisemitic and homophobic flyers were found early Monday on the lawns of homes throughout areas of Sacramento, including two East Sacramento neighborhoods, a development that Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg immediately denounced.

Tribune News Service

Florida confirms it was behind flights that left asylum seekers in California

Officials claim the people, mostly from Colombia and Venezuela, consented to the travel, refuting allegations from Gavin Newsom

The Guardian - US

Sacramento City Council bans loud speakers outside Planned Parenthood clinics

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In 30 days, it will be illegal to use a loud speaker in front of Planned Parenthood clinics in the city of Sacramento.

Tribune News Service

Newsom says California is on track to cut unsheltered homelessness by 15%

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After criticizing local officials for failing to adequately address the pernicious problem of homelessness in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced that the state is on track to cut the number of unsheltered people by an ambitious 15% in two years and vowed to provide 1,200…

Los Angeles Times

A new state agency could implement reparations in California. Here’s what’s proposed

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s Reparations Task Force recently concluded its two-day public meeting geared toward compensating Black Americans affected by the legacy of slavery. But the nine-member body is a long way from the finish line.

Tribune News Service

Skaters honor Tyre Nichols as city leaders say they’ll rename Regency skate park in his honor

Chairs lined the skate ramp and the back of Sac Ramp Skate shop on Saturday afternoon for a memorial and celebration of life of Tyre Nichols.

Tribune News Service

With new storms set to batter California, Newsom seeks urgent federal help

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking the Biden administration to declare a federal emergency before storms that are expected to batter an already beleaguered state this week.

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375,000 lose power around Sacramento area as strong storm, winds wreak havoc

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — More than 375,000 customers lost power in Northern California as the latest powerful winter storm pushed through the region, elevating the danger for flooding and bringing intense winds that downed trees.

Capital & Main

For Kaiser Therapists, the Strike Is Over But the Work Goes On

After 10 weeks of workers walking the picket line, core issues regarding patient care remain unresolved.

Los Angeles Times

Dissension brews among striking UC union members over tentative agreement

LOS ANGELES — A day after the University of California and union leaders representing 36,000 academic workers heralded a breakthrough agreement that could end a five-week strike, dueling narratives over the tentative pact emerged among graduate student supporters and opponents.

Los Angeles Times

After five-week strike, UC and graduate student workers reach tentative agreement

In a major breakthrough in the five-week strike that shut down classes and unleashed grading turmoil, the University of California and the union leadership representing 36,000 graduate student workers reached a tentative labor agreement Friday that would boost their pay and improve benefits.

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‘Enough is enough!’ Striking UC workers say they are weary but won’t give up

LOS ANGELES — During the fifth week of the historic strike by UC academic workers, hundreds of demonstrators converged on the UCLA campus, shouting for better pay and benefits, and forcing the delay of a regent’s meeting, as picketers said they were determined to show that winter break will not…

Los Angeles Times

UC strike drags into 5th week as picketers rally at UCLA

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of striking University of California academic workers — whose massive five-week walkout has disrupted finals week and stirred angst among students and faculty about term grades — converged on the UCLA campus Wednesday shouting for better pay and benefits and a swift end to the contract…

Tribune News Service

Newsom upbeat after meeting with local leaders on homelessness, but funding remains unclear

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday said a meeting with local leaders on efforts to reduce homelessness exceeded his expectations. Yet the status of the $1 billion in state funding he halted two weeks ago remained unclear.

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: Being mayor is different from being a legislator. But Bass has shined in every political job

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Back when she was a legislative leader, one rare quality that impressed me about Karen Bass was her candor in admitting ignorance about a complex subject.

Tribune News Service

Sacramento honors a homegrown World Series champ as mayor declares ‘Dusty Baker Day’

Johnnie Baker Jr., at long last, will have his day.

The Guardian - US

Homelessness has risen 70% in California’s capital. Inside the staggering emergency

On the midterm ballot is Measure O, which would direct the city manager to establish a minimum number of shelter spaces

The Independent UK

Amid end to COVID help, homelessness surging in many cities

Homelessness is expected to be up when the federal government releases results from an annual count in coming months, the first full tally since the coronavirus pandemic began

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