California schools may soon need to provide halal and kosher meal options for students. Dubbed the Halal and Kosher School Meals Act, a proposed bill in the California Legislature would require schools to provide kosher or halal meals if more than 5% of their students request such. Both kosher and halal meals follow specific Jewish … Read more
A year ago, California’s three big investor-owned electric power utilities — Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric — proposed new fixed charges on their residential customers that would vary by income. Households making less than $69,000 a year would pay $20 to $34 a month, while those earning $69,000 … Read more
Multiple efforts are underway on both sides of California’s political divide to short-circuit a legislative plan to impose fixed fees — based on your income — on customers of PG&E and other utility leviathans. Both Democrats and Republicans in the state Legislature have crafted separate measures designed to squash a plan to implement a fixed … Read more
Over the past half century, the East Bay’s liberal state Senate district centering around Berkeley and Oakland has been represented by some of California’s leading legislators: Nick Petris, Barbara Lee, Don Perata, Loni Hancock and, most recently, Nancy Skinner. Now with Skinner forced out at the end of the year by term limits, five Democrats … Read more
Sierra Rivera and her older sister, Dahlia, were thrilled at the idea of baking up a batch of their grandmother’s pumpkin cookies last month for Thanksgiving, but when their dad gave them the handwritten recipe, they froze. Letters of each word gracefully flowed from one to the next in a style familiar to those of … Read more
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political future could be determined by how he responds to Assembly Republicans’ call for a special legislative session to address California’s staggering budget shortfall. Newsom owns this mess. At the start of last year, he was bragging about the state’s $98 billion budget surplus. Last week, Legislative Analyst Gabriel Petek warned that … Read more
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