Border-crossing journalism from the Sacramento Valley
The Southside Oroville Community Center gave District 1 voters the chance to voice concerns in a Feb. 12 town hall featuring state Sen. Mike McGuire.
McGuire, a candidate for California’s 1st Congressional District seat under the Proposition 50 redrawn map, spoke to an audience of about 70 people. Whoever wins the Nov. 3 race will take the seat that was occupied for a dozen years by Rep. Doug LaMalfa, the Richvale rice farmer who represented District 1 and passed away earlier this year.
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California is suing the Trump Administration over its plans to cut $600 million in public health funding from California and three other Democratic states, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Wednesday.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told Congress it would end Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grants in California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota. The attorneys general in those states filed a joint lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Wednesday, arguing the cuts are based on “arbitrary political animus” and would cause irreparable harm.
REDDING — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Redding, about 160 miles north of Sacramento in largely rural Shasta County, has been detaining noncitizens for years, federal government data shows.
The data also indicates that the rate at which immigrants were being detained at the facility significantly increased after President Donald Trump was inaugurated. Only about half of those detained since then have had a criminal record.
An all-day literary festival will be held on the last day of February at The Allies Pub in downtown Chico.
The Allies Lit Fest, beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, will be a celebration of “local writers, readers and the power of words,” said pub proprietor Steve Kay.
Kay emphasized that the festival, which is free and public, is not an academic conference, but rather “an approachable, social, multi-generational, pub-friendly, rooted-in-lived-experience” affair.
A public hearing at the Feb. 3 City Council meeting featured Public Works employees in their orange jackets and a discussion on whether more of their work could be “outsourced.”
About 30 Public Works employees sat on the east side of the Chamber as a department administrator explained that outsourcing some services could in fact raise costs and reduce reliability.
Skyler Lipski, director of operations and maintenance for the Public Works department, noted that approximately 30 percent of the department’s services are already outsourced.
