Pelzer aims to unseat Rep. Ruiz
Editor’s note: Next week, we hope to publish an interview with incumbent Dr. Raul Ruiz.
Kimberlin Brown Pelzer is the Republican challenger seeking to represent...
For HUSD superintendent, one district but 28 different schools
Barrett relishes the challenges and embraces the people
Editor’s Note: Dr. Christi Barrett is starting her third year as superintendent of Hemet Unified School...
HUSD’s Barrett leading the district in many directions
Planning and involvement key to her style
Dr. Christi Barrett is starting her third year as superintendent of Hemet Unified School District. Some staff is...
Brown signs multitude of wildfire legislation
Fire insurance subject of many bills
On Thursday, Sept. 20, Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed 29 bills that affect the state’s preparation or response to...
Brown says school start time is a local decision
While approving many bills recently, Gov. Jerry Brown did veto a few.
Senate Bill 328, which would have limited the start of middle school and...
Proposition 2 amends previous mental health services act
Would use Prop 63 tax revenues to pay back homeless housing bonds
Proposition 2, on the November ballot as a legislatively referred tax statute, proposes...
Proposition 7 could make daylight savings year long
If the federal government permits it
California’s Proposition 7, on the November ballot, proposes to “support” the Legislature in passing a law to make Daylight Saving...
No plastic straws without ‘please’
Dinners from home now legal
Several bills Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed last week will affect food and restaurant businesses.
Plastic straws
On Thursday, Brown, signed...
Ruiz leads effort to protect newspapers from damaging tariffs on newsprint
In what some contend was an effort to curb “fake news,” President Donald Trump’s Department of Commerce imposed higher tariffs on newsprint imported from...
Voluntary water tax does not surface before Legislature adjourns
Among the hundreds of bills the state Legislature did not pass was Senate Bill 845. This proposal would allow water customers throughout the state...