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The Elk Grove Unified School District will be adding electric school buses to its fleet thanks to a federal grant for California school districts.
During Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month there's been a spotlight on the importance of education, especially with the recent increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans.
The historic waterfront and downtown are two of Sacramento's iconic places, but they are separated by an interstate. A group of Sacramento leaders want to change that.
Sacramento is looking for a spot of federal money to start the process of decking over a portion of Interstate 5 through the city's downtown.
New steps are underway to better connect Downtown Sacramento with one of the city's greatest assets: the Old Sacramento Waterfront.
Policy discussions are hopefully “boiling to the point” where Congress can repeal Communications Decency Act Section 230, House Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., told us Wednesday. He and Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., said the parallel efforts of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and ranking member Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are encouraging.
Sacramento is sometimes known as the City of Trees, but data shows the city’s tree canopy lacks that of a healthy urban forest.
The expiration of FCC auction authority was a problem that could have been avoided, House Communications ranking member Doris Matsui, D-Calif., said during CTIA’s 5G Summit Monday (see 2405060051). Congress should strike a deal now that restores auction authority, she said. “With a hamstrung FCC, we're going to be limited in what we can achieve,” Matsui said. “I don't think we can afford to wait any longer.” The U.S.
House Commerce Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta, R-Ohio, and Rep. Doris Matsui, D-California, used appearances at a 5G summit Monday to call for a restoration of the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction authority.
The Senate Commerce Committee will likely advance an amended version of the draft Spectrum and National Security Act during a Wednesday executive session with unanimous support from the panel’s 14 Democratic members, but lobbyists will watch closely how many Republicans don’t openly object to the measure as a means of determining its viability. The spectrum bill, led by Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., would restore the FCC’s lapsed auction mandate through Sept. 30, 2029.