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When will my ballot be counted? The perks of voting early - Black Voice News
Flo Hodes is doing everything she can to avoid post-Election Day BS. A Democratic voter living in Oakland, she has watched with mounting concern President Donald Trump's refusal to say whether he will abide by the reported election results, his continued efforts to undermine public confidence in
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Say no to Big Tobacco referendum - Black Voice News
In summary Big Tobacco has launched a strategy to revoke a new law that would end the sales of flavored tobacco and postpone the law from taking effect. By Joaquin Arambula Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, a Democrat from Fresno and an emergency room doctor, represents the 31st Assembly
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Five automakers finalize deal with California to clean up car emissions — The Sacramento Observer
(CALMATTERS) - California’s clean air enforcers have finalized a deal with five automakers to cut greenhouse gases from cars despite the Trump administration’s rollbacks. The deal, first proposed last year, is California’s hedge against the uncertainty of ongoing lawsuits challenging federal
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Explore These 8 Destinations With Your Family This Summer
Just because there’s a pandemic going on, doesn’t mean that all hope for summer travel is lost. While making plans for international travel may be worrisome to most, there are [] The post Explore These 8 Destinations With Your Family This Summer appeared first on Essence.
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Slated for deception? Beware of all those glossy mailers telling you how to vote - Black Voice News
Amid the torrent of laminated campaign ads churning through the postal system this season, the slate mailer stands out as a perennial - and many say unseemly - California political tradition that dates back to at least the 1950s. Though new restrictions may be on the way. You've seen these
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Prop. 22 battle reaches fever pitch - Black Voice News
Good morning, California. It's Friday, October 23. Court rules against Uber, Lyft Image via iStock The stakes in the battle over Prop. 22 just got a lot higher. Uber and Lyft must reclassify their independent contractor drivers as full-fledged employees by late January, a California appeals court
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African-Americans are leaving California in record numbers — The Sacramento Observer
(CALMATTERS) - In a quiet corner of Elk Grove, where the maze of subdivisions and shopping centers gives way to open fields, Sharie Wilson has spent the last three years building her dream home.  It’s nothing like the neighborhood where she grew up in South Central L.A. But in this Sacramento
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City wagers on entertainment may backfire - Black Voice News
In summary California's COVID-19 recession is having a devastating effect on local bond issues for sports and entertainment venues. COVID-19 and the severe recession it spawned abruptly ended what had been one of California's longest-running and most powerful economic
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Congress: The races to watch - Black Voice News
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Middle Class to Bear Brunt of Budget Cuts
(CALMATTERS) Middle-class families will likely bear the brunt of budget cuts under an agreement reached by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature to patch the state’s $54 billion deficit, while the neediest Californians are largely spared. Unless the federal government supplies billions of dollars
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Newsom to be sued over fracking permits - Black Voice News
Good morning, California. It’s Wednesday, October 21. Emissions rise slightly Newsom announces an executive order on Sept. 23, 2020, at Cal Expo in Sacramento. Photo by Daniel Kim, The Sacramento Bee via AP/Pool A national environmental organization is preparing to sue Gov. Gavin
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Restorative Justice Offers Californians Way to Avoid Prison — The Sacramento Observer
(CALMATTERS) - A hit-and-run offender sits on a Zoom call with three other people: a facilitator and two community members. The facilitator asks the offender to explain the hit-and-run and how it felt to abandon damaged property. The community members also ask questions: Were you speeding? What was
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California on track to set voting record - Black Voice News
Good morning, California. It's Tuesday, November 3. Results of close races unlikely tonight Jerry Handfield collects ballots at a drive-thru voting location in front of the Contra Costa County clerk-recorder office in Martinez on Oct. 31, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters Election Day
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Creek Fire update, Nov. 5: Snow and rain are coming. Why firefighters are worried - Black Voice News
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Why do we keep voting on this? Exploring Prop. 13’s ‘Tax Revolt Family Tree’ - Black Voice News
The tax revolt started in California in 1978, but it never really ended. Four decades ago mad-as-hell voters banded together to pass Proposition 13, capping property taxes, slapping a constitutional muzzle on state government and wringing local budgets like a washcloth. The electorate's anti-tax
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Nigeria: Afenifere, Junaid Mohammed, Opadokun React to Buhari's Democracy Day Speech
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, described President Muhammadu Buhari's Democracy Day address as a huge and unpardonable slap on the face of the nation's democratic
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Additional measures, enforcement needed in San Joaquin Valley plan for clean air - Black Voice News
In summary I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley, and the air pollution there has had very real impacts on my own health and the health of my family. By Cynthia Pinto-Cabrera, Special to CalMatters Cynthia Pinto-Cabrera is a policy assistant with the Central Valley Air Quality
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A double whammy for jobless workers - Black Voice News
In summary California has a stubbornly high unemployment rate and slow handling of benefit claims increases the pain of jobless workers. The good news is that California's economy seems to be inching its way out of the very severe recession triggered by business shutdowns Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered
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The ‘speed of trust’: California wants statewide panel to review any COVID vaccine - Black Voice News
In summary Gov. Gavin Newsom says Californians need to have confidence in a vaccine, and the state will have a review process regardless of which presidential candidate wins in November. Coronavirus vaccines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in coming months will not be distributed
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Coronavirus pandemic puts a spotlight on Stockton’s guaranteed income experiment — The Sacramento Observer
(CALMATTERS) - If there was ever a good time to convince people guaranteed income can make a difference, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs figured it’d be in the middle of a pandemic that is taking a heavier toll in poor neighborhoods and among Black and Latinx communities. So Tubbs, whose city has been
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For Native Americans, voter outreach is by both wi-fi and radio - Black Voice News
Although California is home to the largest Native American population in the United States, voting has always been problematic. This year, the pandemic - and the state's decision to mail ballots to every California voter - has created new issues for tribal lands, whose residents often lack
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Critics Demand Fairer Prop Ballot Labels and Summaries — The Sacramento Observer
(CALMATTERS) - In California elections, it’s practically tradition. About 100 days before the election, the state attorney general writes up a label and succinct summary of each ballot proposition. And then, like clockwork, pro- and anti-camps spend the next 20 days feverishly filing
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Left wing wants to cancel Dianne Feinstein - Black Voice News
In summary The Democratic Party's left wing wants to cancel Dianne Feinstein, a fixture of California politics for six decades. Dianne Feinstein has been a fixture of California politics for 60 years, beginning with an appointment to the state's then-separate parole board for women. To put that in
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It’s time for cities to track and measure gasoline consumption - Black Voice News
In summary Gasoline is a big part of the climate crisis and we must demand that our elected officials achieve big, consistent cuts in gasoline usage. By Russell Hancock, Special to CalMatters Russell Hancock is president & CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a nonprofit think tank. He also
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A lonely place - Stabroek News
More than 140 days after Guyana’s elections, the losing regime and its disingenuous leader remain defiantly in power, with yet another brazen legal attempt underway to thwart democracy and further delay the formal declaration of the
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Prop. 22 Protects Independent Contractors — The Sacramento Observer
OPNION - Although millions of Californians are suffering, people of color and disadvantaged communities have been disproportionately ravaged by the double blow of the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic meltdown. Crushing job losses among African Americans have only exacerbated the inequity
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Affirmative action ballot measure fails, but these students are still fighting to diversify their universities - Black Voice News
In summary Proposition 16 failed, but students at public colleges and universities in California have been trying to increase minority representation at their campuses for years and will continue their efforts. When Ayo Banjo arrived at the University of California, Santa Cruz for his freshman
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Eastern Coachella Valley residents urge the state for action on the Salton Sea - Black Voice News
In summary We continue to see no action or purposeful decision-making to prioritize the needs and public health of communities around the Salton Sea. By Sandra Ramirez Sandra Ramirez is a community advocate from Coachella, sandra113075@gmail.com. Christian Mendez, Special to CalMatters Christian
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Black D.C. Archbishop's Rise Marks a Historic Moment - Black Voice News
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Hall of Fame outfielder, speedster Brock dies at age 81 — The Sacramento Observer
NEW YORK (AP) — Hall of Famer Lou Brock, one of baseball’s signature leadoff hitters and base stealers who helped the St. Louis Cardinals win three pennants and two World Series in the 1960s, has died. He was 81. Dick Zitzmann, Brock’s longtime agent and friend, confirmed Brock’s death Sunday, but
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