Once again state voters will have an opportunity to vote on a proposition affecting California’s finances. Its purpose is to pay state debt sooner and set aside funds each year for future economic emergencies and exigencies. State debt For the next 15 years, Prop 2 requires the state to spend at least 0.75 percent of…
1:58 p.m. update: Helicopter 301 and crew have been released from the Tahquitz Fire. All except one crew should be released by end of day, according to a forest official. The one crew will remain overnight in case of a flare-up. 1:08 p..m. update: Crew members in the wilderness reported the Tahquitz Fire is at…
Proposition 46, the Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Cap and Drug Testing of Doctors Initiative, also known as the Troy and Alana Pack Patient Safety Act of 2014, is the result of a personal family tragedy in which two children, walking with their mother to get ice cream in their neighborhood after a Halloween party, were killed…
Bryan and Brandy Asch are celebrating REPS Training Mountain Center’s first anniversary on Oct. 15. Windean Dahleen’s Idyology restaurant opens at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, in the former Creek House location in Fern Valley. The comfort cuisine with a global flair is served until 11 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday, with the bar open…
In a second report on truancy throughout the state, California Attorney General Kamala Harris repeats her admonition from last year’s findings that “a truancy crisis continues in California.” “California elementary school students continue to miss school at unacceptably high rates,” Harris said in a press release. “Improvements in education policy are moot if students are…
Proposition 47, alternatively the Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative or The Safe Neighborhood and Schools Act, seeks to “ensure that prison spending is focused on violent and serious offenses, to maximize alternatives for non-serious, nonviolent crime, and to invest the savings generated from this act into preventing and supporting programs in K–12 schools, victim…
