A bill that would give people serving life without parole a second chance at freedom was brought back in the California Assembly Monday after a year of inactivity.
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Last week, CalMatters reported on six Yolo County farmworkers who claim that they were fired for leaving their jobs during a June heatwave.
During the California Gold Rush, there were 624 miners for every 1,000 people. But, it wasn’t the goldminers that made millions, it was the businessmen providing services.
California farmworkers who say they’ve faced dangerously hot worksites spoke Monday in support of a bill that seeks to protect them from extreme heat.
This November, voters across the San Francisco Bay Area will be asked whether to back the largest affordable housing bond in California history — a $20 billion IOU aimed at building homes in the epicenter of the state’s housing crisis.
Earlier this summer, Erika Deluque began to feel weak while working in a Dixon tomato field in triple-digit heat. Her headache grew stronger, her body involuntarily shivered and she felt like vomiting.
“I felt so suffocated, so desperate,” recalled Deluque, 32.
More than two months since six Yolo County farmworkers left work on a hot day, costing them their jobs at the farm where they were picking tomatoes, the alleged retaliatory firing of the workers sparked a greater push for
Should local governments be allowed to pass their own regulations around autonomous vehicles (also known as robotaxis, self-driving vehicles or AVs)?
A bill that would do just that moved one step closer to becoming law on Wednesday, when the Senate Local Government Committee appeared to give its approval to SB 915, by Sen. Dave Cortese, D-San Jose.