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California could soon join a growing chorus of governments that are pulling investments from Russia to protest the country’s unprovoked war against Ukraine. Read the full story at this link. 




California State Senator David Cortese (D-San Jose) has introduced SB 1170, a bill aimed to safeguard the financial stability of school and community college districts. View the full story at this link. 




Chaos ensued last fall in the Los Gatos Town Council chambers as members of a far-right group disrupted meeting after meeting by shouting out of order and lodging personal attacks at council members.




California school boards, city councils and boards of supervisors would have clearer authority to remove disruptive participants from their meetings under a bill introduced Thursday in the Legislature that aims to protect local officials from harassment and verbal abuse.




California legislators want to change the rules for public meetings following the harassment of local officials in Los Gatos last year.




California will improve the way it handles addiction recovery if legislation authored by State Senator Dave Cortese is approved by the State Legislature here.




THOUSANDS of students may get monthly $500 payments under a proposal - and the deadline for the legislation is this week.




Democratic California State Senator Dave Cortese proposed a bill on Monday that he says will advance the way the state deals with addiction recovery treatment.