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Sacramento Currently Spending $44 Million on Growing Homeless

April 18, 2022 8:15 amApril 18, 2022 12:54 pm

The City of Sacramento is spending more than $44 million to provide eight homeless shelters and camping options, most not yet built or ready, and three Project Homekey motel conversions. According to city officials, “most of that comes from state...

Sacramento Claims There Won’t be Money to Continue Funding Existing Homeless Shelters

March 4, 2022 2:34 amApril 18, 2022 7:54 am

Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan “raised an alarm this week about funding for the city’s existing homeless shelters even as the City Council pushes to open more large sites to address the community’s growing homelessness crisis,” the Sacramento Bee reported...

Navigating City Services for Homeless: It’s ‘Impossible’ and a ‘Nightmare’

February 28, 2022 3:49 pmApril 3, 2022 4:23 pm

Most city residents acknowledge that the more than 11,000 homeless living on Sacramento streets need some serious form of help. Most are in need of mental health services and drug addiction treatment. But there are some who live on the...

Sacramento Union Gospel Mission is Saving Lives of the Homeless and Lost

January 13, 2022 12:07 pmJanuary 13, 2022 7:21 pm

Union Gospel Mission Sacramento takes in dozens of drug addicted homeless men every year, helps them get sober, educated, acquire skills, learn jobs, and graduates them back into society. They could teach cities and counties how to do this. Faith....

California’s Senate Republicans Call for Gas Tax Holiday Ahead of July 1st Gas Tax Increase

June 23, 2021 3:50 pmJune 24, 2021 2:46 pm

California’s already sky-high gas prices are going up again on July 1st because of the 2017 controversial gas tax law, Senate Bill 1. Titled the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, SB 1 was signed into law by then-Gov....

California Education Leaders React to Gov. Newsom’s K-12 Budget

May 20, 2021 7:34 am

EdSource asked education leaders, teachers, union leaders, lawmakers, advocates and observers to weigh in on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s record-level, revised 2021-22 budget for K-12 education, and what they thought would most advance students’ recovery from the impact of the pandemic...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Tone Deaf Email to ‘Stop the Republican Recall’ Insults Ca Voters

March 20, 2021 10:28 amMarch 26, 2021 6:51 am

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a recall election this fall. This week, the RecallGavin2020 campaign turned in more than 2.1 signature petitions to recall the governor. Almost immediately, Newsom launched a campaign to fight the recall, calling it a “partisan,...