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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.