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SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA — The County of Santa Clara is committed to ensuring that every county household will be officially counted for the 2020 Census, part of the County’s multi-year campaign to “get out the count.” Following the news that the U.S. Commerce Department, which oversees the U.S. Census Bureau, is...
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Eric Tegethoff Public News Service DALLAS, Ore. — A lawsuit is challenging an Oregon school district’s policy protecting transgender students – but opponents say the case should be thrown out. The ACLU of Oregon wants to intervene on behalf of Basic Rights Oregon, the state’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group,...
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Soundbite News Service WASHINGTON — If you want to know how healthy your county is, check the ZIP code. For the ninth year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute have released a report showing how nearly every county in the United States is doing, as...
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The Justice Department is suing California, Governor Jerry Brown, and the state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, over three state laws passed in recent months to protect the rights of immigrants. Attorney General Sessions made a formal announcement regarding the lawsuit and California’s “extreme postion” during a visit to Sacramento at the 26th...
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Eric Tegethoff Public News Service SEATTLE — People waiting for their immigration case to be decided can be held indefinitely, even if they are legal permanent residents or asylum seekers. In a 5-to-3 decision issued Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on Jennings...
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Will be Used for First Phase of Santa Clara County’s 2020 Census Effort SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA — On Tuesday March 6th, the County of Santa Clara Board of Supervisors approved an unprecedented $1 million to launch the 2018 Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) effort, one of the most...
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San Jose, Calif. – Mayor Sam Liccardo of San Jose, California’s third largest city, issued the following statement after today’s announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to sue the State of California: This lawsuit is a misguided waste of federal resources – much like the Administration’s indiscriminate approach to...
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Two Thirds of Deaths are Homicides, Study Finds Violence Policy Center WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Nearly 54,000 Hispanics were killed with guns in the United States from 1999 through 2015, with an average of more than 3,100 gun deaths per year, according to a new study by...