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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California’s teenage foster youth are doing better than the national average in several important ways, according to a new report. The Annie E. Casey Foundation research found 84 percent of California young people who leave the foster care system at age 21 have...
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Lawsuit Addresses Improved Access for Inmates with Mobility Disabilities at the Santa Clara County Jails SCC SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA –The Parties to the action Cole v. County of Santa Clara, N.D. Cal No. 5:16-cv-06594 (filed Nov. 2016) have reached an agreement on a Consent Decree to address conditions...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Social workers are expressing sorrow, and solidarity with the victims of the shooting massacre in Thousand Oaks. It claimed 13 lives, including a police officer and the gunman, whom officials believe took his own life. The California chapter of the National...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California’s most selective public colleges still admit far too few black and Latino students, according to a new report which was released on November 13, 2018. Researchers at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce found that six out of 100...
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EFE Mexico City – In the spirit of entreating favors of Mexico’s patron saint and remaining faithful to the promises they made in their countries of origin, some 1,000 migrants in the second caravan went Tuesday November 13 to the Basilica of Guadalupe, where they hope to get help...
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– 87% of Americans: “most divided our country has been in my lifetime” – 70% frustrated by how “both sides” handled Kavanaugh nomination – But 77% say that “the differences between Americans are not so big that we cannot come together” – Conventional wisdom of a nation split 50:50 is wrong: landmark study...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Civil-rights groups are dismissing President Donald Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship, calling it an unconstitutional election-week stunt to appeal to his base. Trump said in an interview Monday October 29 that he’s planning an executive order revoking the right to...
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As Veterans Day approaches, your Better Business Bureau (BBB) urges service members to keep an eye out for scams Better Business Bureau It has long been recognized that military families and veterans are at increased risk of being targeted by scammers. The steady paychecks and relative youth of active-duty...
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Mayor Liccardo among advocates for a bond measure which would prepare and help after disasters Arturo Hilario El Observador On Thursday, October 25 there was a Measure T briefing at Rock Springs Park in the neighborhood of the same name. Last year it was there that became a ground...