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On the morning of May 29, 1942, Mary Tsukamoto awoke to find her mattress on the floor. Glancing around the bedroom that she shared with her husband, Al, it took her a moment to get her bearings: Today was the day she and her family would lose their freedom. Their bed frame, along with the rest of their furniture, was in storage. “We had broken no law, committed no criminal act,” she later wrote. But “on this day we were to leave our homes. No one knew where we were to go nor for how long we would be gone.
Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing California on Tuesday.
She was elected to succeed her late husband in 2005 after he died in office. The AP projected she would beat Republican Tom Silva.
Matsui has secured reelection comfortably in every race since.
She easily defended her seat in the primary against a Democratic challenger, David Mandel, who ran on a platform of Palestinian human rights and demanding a cease-fire by Israel in Gaza.
Leadership and key staff from the Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) officially celebrated the acceptance of nearly $77 million in federal grant funding Wednesday morning during a special event attended by state officials, and dignitaries from Sacramento County. The gathering, held at McClellan Business Park, marked the beginning of SacRT’s ambitious push toward a zero-emission future and the creation of the region’s first hydrogen fuel infrastructure.
Federal regulators announced that they have approved California’s application for funding under a federal program designed to provide equitable access to broadband.
California is to receive $70 million in approved funding from the $1.44 billion State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program in order to implement its digital equity plan.
The work Jonathan Porteus does is changing.
“If you said to me 15 years ago, ‘What do you run?’ I would have said, ‘Oh, I run a behavioral health program. I run a federally qualified health center,’” says Porteus, CEO of WellSpace Health in Sacramento. “Now, if you say that, I say, ‘I run an FQHC and a CCBHC.’”
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in the House and Senate are calling for COVID-era flexibilities on telemedicine services to be extended to ensure access to “necessary and life-saving treatments,” and are speaking out against a proposed rule reportedly being advanced by the DEA that would limit telemedicine prescribing.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz briefly swung through Sacramento Tuesday afternoon for a fundraiser hosted by Gov. Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
Walz and his daughter Hope deplaned at Sacramento International Airport just after 12:30 p.m.
The Minnesota governor and running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted on the tarmac by elected officials including Rep. Doris Matsui, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, their spouses, state Treasurer Fiona Ma and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg.
A project to electrify hundreds of homes in Sacramento’s Meadowview neighborhood will get millions of dollars in new federal funding to launch the program.
The $3 million for Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s Neighborhood Electrification Project will electrify as many as 300 homes in Meadowview, the utility company said. Upgrades will include induction stoves and smart thermostats, heat pump space heaters and water heaters along with chargers for electric vehicles, where feasible.
The federal government is putting $15 million towards a plan to transform West Sacramento’s Bryte Park.
The funding comes from the National Park Service’s Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Grants Program which gives grants to cities for park projects in underserved communities.
The House on Sept. 18 approved the Future Uses of Technology Upholding Reliable and Enhanced (FUTURE) Networks Act by a vote of 393-22.
This bill would require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to bring together industry leaders, public interest groups, and government experts to establish a 6G Task Force.