Mayor Josh Chapman and Councilmember Bapu Vaitla recently began asking city commissioners for feedback on a proposal for “clarification of how items are placed on a commission meeting agenda.” Chapman ...

San Francisco, CA — This week, the Coalition on Homelessness, alongside community members and advocates, gathered to speak out against the ongoing destruction of unhoused individuals’ essential ...

MODESTO, CA – At a probation hearing Tuesday in the Stanislaus County Superior Court here, a $25,000 bail was set following a probation violation by the accused based on testimony given by Deputy ...

Pursuant to Proposition 66, an initiative approved by California voters in 2016, the condemned transfer program mandated that California transfer condemned incarcerated people from the two prisons ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Philadelphia has seen an alarming increase in police misconduct lawsuits, with payouts reaching approximately $60 million since the start of 2023, according to recent analysis by ...

California is the land of milk and honey. We are blessed with magnificent natural beauty from the ocean to the desert to the mountains and beyond. Our weather is the envy of much of the world. However ...

Earlier this week, I ran a piece on NIMBYism. I argued that slow growth advocates have lost rhetorical debate. However as the Atlantic’s writer Jerusalem Demsas points out, they may have won the war.

Davis, CA – The Davis Downtown Business Association (DDBA) announced it was endorsing a Yes vote on Measure Q. In a release, the DDBA said it believes that “Measure Q is critical for the continued ...

SACRAMENTO, CA – A week after the city of Sacramento utterly destroyed Camp Resolution—a “Safe Ground” encampment holding about 50 disabled or elderly residents in a city-approved location—the ...

Last year around this time, our independent nonprofit news organization began its research on a multi-part series entitled, “In-Custody Deaths in U.S. Prisons and Jails Have Evolved Into a National ...

SAN DIEGO, CA – Following a San Diego County Superior Court hearing in June for Paul Gentile Smith, who has a pending retrial after his murder conviction was overturned in 2021 when it was discovered ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA. —A coalition of immigrant rights organizations found severe abuses in immigration detention facilities across Louisiana, according to a report released last week. The coalition, which ...