California

  • CA Advocates for Working Families Push to Keep State-Based Savings Accounts

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Advocates for working families are fighting to keep a proposed state-sponsored retirement savings program called Secure Choice, even as some in Congress are trying to undermine this type of plan. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote soon on a bill...
  • Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Combat Understaffing in California Dialysis Clinics

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) introduced legislation on February 15th to improve staffing at more than 550 dialysis clinics in California.  SB 349, the Dialysis Patient Safety Act, would mandate annual inspections of dialysis clinics and safer staffing levels. Current law requires inspections of dialysis clinics every six...
  • Defensores sienten nueva urgencia de defender Medicare

    Logan Pollard California News Service PASADENA, Calif – El Representante Republicano Tom Price, de Georgia, inicio el 13 de febrero su primera semana completa como Secretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos (“Health and Human Services”). Y varios defensores de Medicare, como la AARP California, aprovechan el momento para llamar...
  • Advocates Feel New Urgency to Defend Medicare

    Logan Pollard California News Service PASADENA, Calif. – Rep. Tom Price began his first full week as secretary of Health and Human Services the week of February 13th, and Medicare advocates say they will continue to push Congress and the new administration to protect the program they call “crucial.”...
  • How Will California Clean its Air?

    Logan Pollard California News Service LOS ANGELES – Southern California has long been plagued with dirty air – so dirty that clean-air advocates claim the entire South Coast basin has never been in full compliance with the federal Clean Air Act. But today, the South Coast Air Quality Management...
  • CA Business Owners’ Reaction to Executive Orders

    Logan Pollard California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In the past week, President Trump signed executive orders to build a wall along the Mexican border and to cut off federal funds to “sanctuary cities” – in California and across the country. While Wall Street has been bullish, small business...
  • CALIFORNIA’S LATINO LEADERS ARE PREPARED

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR A record number were present during the La Raza Roundtable meeting held on Friday, January 27, 2017. The attraction which brought 125 local attendees was the program with the scheduled presence of CA Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin de León and CA Senator Ben Huesos....
  • Millions of Californians to Raise Awareness of School Choice

    29 Cities and Counties Issue Proclamations Recognizing “School Choice Week” in California As History-Making Celebrations Set to Kick Off SACRAMENTO–– National School Choice Week begins this week in California and across the country. There are 1750 events planned in the Golden State to raise awareness about K-12 school choice,...
  • Obama Expands CA Coastal Monument

    Peter Schurmann New America Media In one of his final moves prior to leaving office, now former-President Barack Obama announced a 6,230-acre expansion of the California Coastal National Monument. The expansion puts the spotlight on the state’s coast just when rising seas and growing pressures to develop and drill...
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