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A vacant seat in California’s 1st Congressional District — caused by the passing of former congressman Doug LaMalfa, as well as recently approved redistricting — have set up an unusual and potentially confusing election year for voters in Butte County.
Butte County voters will receive two separate ballots for two June 2 primary elections.
One is the primary for a special election to fill LaMalfa’s seat for the remainder of his term.
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.
