The laws a judge cited Monday to reduce the sentence of San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s brother for a 2000 killing have been used hundreds of times since 2019 to shorten terms for crimes that state law no longer defines as murder or manslaughter, lowering the state prison population and costs over the opposition of prosecutors.
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A couple of high-profile California officials made some buzz Wednesday in Washington, D.C. State Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat from Oakland and chairperson of the Senate Budget Committee, spoke at the White House about California’s latest investments in child care.
Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat from Oakland who authored SB 233, said she wants to ensure that automakers don’t reserve the technology for only their higher-end models. She said since the relatively affordable Nissan Leaf has it, it can be widely available.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Coming out of the pandemic, when we saw that some child care programs were not reopening, we knew we had to face the problem head-on. Child care is absolutely essential. Families have to have child care to return to the workplace. Our entire economy depends on it,” said Sen.
This spring, a family contacted me from Texas. Their teenage son has been on testosterone for a year, but Texas’ recently passed ban on transgender care means their child can no longer be prescribed hormones. As multiple studies show, without access to hormones and gender-affirming health care, this child is now at a higher risk of poor health outcomes, including depression and suicide.
Hundreds of school districts and child welfare agencies in California contract with private ride-sharing companies to transport foster, homeless and some special education students — the only students districts are legally required to provide transportation for — to and from school.
In 2008, I began rapidly losing my vision from a condition called Idiopathic intracranial hypertension. I eventually lost my independence, my ability to work and, ultimately, my life as I knew it.
"We're moving full speed ahead. This is an equity issue," Skinner told Newsweek. "If the TV or movie industry were to feature and use college students and then refuse to compensate them, there would be a universal outcry. The NCAA should be no different."