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Classrooms First: California Must Stop Feeding Bureaucracy and Start Funding Teachers and Students
22+ hour, 33+ min ago (344+ words) We don't ever-higher totals " we need to budget existing dollars differently By Herb Morgan, April 8, 2026 9: 00 am Yet student outcomes'the only metric that truly matters'remain dismal. On the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), only about 29% of California fourth-graders were proficient…...
The Inconvenient Truth About Fraud in Los Angeles
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (221+ words) Before Kenneth Mejia's team built the tracking dashboards, the city literally did not monitor homelessness spending in any systematic way By Jay Rogers, April 8, 2026 7: 22 am Now imagine what happens when the last independent auditor is folded into the mayor's office....
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10+ hour, 33+ min ago (12+ words) Taxpayer ROI: How Many California Cities are Running Huge Budget Deficits'California Globe...
Gov. Newsom Touts Misleading UC Berkeley Study on California's $20 Fast Food Wage
17+ hour, 14+ min ago (899+ words) By Katy Grimes, April 8, 2026 3: 10 pm California has such an absurdly high cost of living that some misguided lawmakers think increasing the minimum wage will offset nearly $1 million median home prices, $7. 00-per-gallon gas prices, and $500 " $1, 000 monthly electricity bills. The minimum wage…...
California Supreme Court Orders Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco to Pause Election Probe, Preserve Seized Ballots
17+ hour, 13+ min ago (385+ words) By Megan Barth, April 8, 2026 12: 48 pm The California Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to immediately pause his ongoing investigation into alleged discrepancies and potential irregularities in the November 2025 special election ballots and to preserve all seized…...
ACLU of Nevada Appeals Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging LVMPD's Agreement with ICE
17+ hour, 14+ min ago (440+ words) The ACLU challenge unfolds against a backdrop of sharp divisions between Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo and Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford over immigration enforcement in Nevada By Megan Barth, April 8, 2026 11: 55 am The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nevada filed…...
California Hands Out Diplomas, But Only Prepares a Few
17+ hour, 14+ min ago (469+ words) California is set to spend nearly $150 billion on K12 education, more than $27, 000 per student By Hector Barajas and Lance Christensen, April 8, 2026 11: 35 am California's education system keeps highlighting a key figure politicians love to promote: graduation rates. Despite the fact that graduates…...
Taxing Greed to Pay for What We Need:" LA Hotel Worker Union Hemorrhages Members
21+ hour, 24+ min ago (877+ words) Labor union is pushing an "overpaid CEO" tax, billionaire tax, and $30 minimum wage By Katy Grimes, April 8, 2026 11: 05 am Last week marked the deadline for labor unions to file their 2025 LM-2"s, the report by labor unions that detail how they spent…...
Sanctuary Policies Must Be Challenged By All Means
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (305+ words) When states prioritize non-citizens over citizens, it fosters division and lawlessness By Richie Greenberg, April 7, 2026 2: 20 pm The concept of Sanctuary City and Sanctuary State, which maliciously limit a jurisdiction's cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, represents a profound betrayal of civil…...
Operation Not Forgotten Expands Federal Support for Tribal Investigations as Arizona Communities Address Violent Crime " California Globe
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (627+ words) By Matthew Holloway, April 7, 2026 2: 11 pm Federal officials are expanding investigative and victim support resources in Arizona and across the country through Operation Not Forgotten 2026, an initiative focused on unresolved violent crime in tribal communities. The U. S. Department of Justice announced Thursday…...