Californians are tired and angry about the seemingly intractable, unsheltered, street homelessness crisis.
After serving in elected office for 12 years, I have been frustrated by the many boxes that we’ve put around ourselves as policymakers that somehow justify allowing people to suffer, degrade and ultimately die in front of us, while our public spaces become living spaces for other humans.
(SiliconValley.com) - California’s embattled labor agency acknowledged Monday that “an intermittent issue” has surfaced with the computer system its workers use to process claims for unemployment benefits.
The state Employment Development Department has told staffers for multiple state lawmakers that the computer system for handling jobless benefits is experiencing outages and glitches.
“We’re trying to catch up with our IT folks,” said Loree Levy, a spokesperson for the state EDD. “It appears there was an intermittent issue.”
(San Francisco Chronicle) - Three years ago the Silicon Valley town of Woodside drew the ire of state housing officials when it briefly declared itself a mountain lion sanctuary, a designation seen as a ploy to dodge a law requiring municipalities to allow duplexes and fourplexes.
(KQED) - A bill in Sacramento that would bring vital resources to farmworkers has been put on hold for now. It would bring critical healthcare services directly to farmworkers in rural communities through a mobile health pilot program.
(CalMatters) - House Republicans moved to cut off artificial intelligence regulation by the states before it can take root, advancing legislation in Congress that, in California, would make it unlawful to enforce more than 20 laws passed by the Legislature and signed into law last year.
(San Mateo Daily Journal) - State and local lawmakers are raising concerns around road conditions near the summit of State Route 92, which a May 12 press release labeled as hazardous due to a naturally-occurring spring causing wet pavement.
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(CalMatters Opinion) - State Sen. Josh Becker’s proposal, Senate Bill 540, represents the carefully considered path to achieving that partnership.
(Mountain View Voice) - Mountain View is looking to support legislation that could rein in builder’s remedy, following discontent from community members and some council members who say the current process is unfair and saddles them with massive housing projects that do not fit in their neighborhoods.