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Why Newsom and California lawmakers want the state Supreme Court to remove a 2024 ballot propositionA ballot proposition would require voters to sign off on any new state tax or tax increase. The governor and Democratic lawmakers are trying to remove it from the ballot.
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The North Valley Harm Reduction Coalition has been asked by the city of Chico to cease operation of its syringe access program after being issued a notice of violating an ordinance that bans syringe exchange programs or “anything similar to them.” Also, a request to Butte County for a March 2024 special election for Valley’s Edge was requested by the Chico City Council, and the city of Willows finalized a contract with the Glenn County Sheriff's Office to provide law enforcement services through the end of this year.
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If you live in California and you’ve been stressing about getting your taxes in, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Yesterday the IRS gave Californians another month to file taxes. Also, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors will meet today to potentially vote on a new county public health officer, and nearly half a million health care workers in California will get a pay boost next year under a new law raising the industry’s minimum wage.
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North State residents could be able to see a remarkable partial solar eclipse on Saturday. The eclipse will appear as a “ring of fire,” as the moon’s orbit passes between the earth and the sun, blocking all but a narrow outer ring of the sun’s light. Also, Pacific Gas and Electric now has the go ahead to proceed with clean up of Butte Creek following a canal failure this summer, and the Shasta County Board of Supervisors has doubled down on their opposition to a new law barring hand-counting ballots in elections in counties with more than 1,000 registered voters.
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The Butte County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to extend an ordinance by 18 months that allows Bear Fire or North Complex survivors to live in RVs and trailers on their properties. But there’s a caveat: dry camping, which is camping without a permanent source of running water, will only be legal in the area for another six months. Also, on Monday, the California Public Utilities Commission announced it could be hitting PG&E with another fine, this time, for causing the massive Dixie Fire, and new study shows wildfire smoke is correlated with higher suicide rates in rural America.
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Gov. Newsom vetoes what would have been a first-in-the-nation law banning caste discrimination in education, housing and the workplace. The bill divided South Asian communities in California.
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Many rural communities in the North State have poor or no internet service. NSPR looks into how the Karuk Tribe in Humboldt County is responding to this crisis. Also, more than a dozen CapRadio board members resigned effective immediately Wednesday night following a devastating audit, and California Governor Gavin Newsom signed 16 new bills into law yesterday, one of which now guarantees a minimum of five days of paid sick leave for employees in the state.
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PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoffs were a much more frequent occurrence when they started about five years ago. This year, the company has only turned off power twice. NSPR looked into why there are fewer outages. Also, cannabis is now the top crop produced in Shasta County, and a new law to protect doctors in California from prosecution for sending abortion pills to patients in other states was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Several settlements were approved this year in connection with the Zogg Fire, which ignited three years ago today. Also, the threshold of signatures to hold a recall election for Shasta County District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye has been reached, and Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Monday to prevent school boards from banning textbooks based solely on a books’ coverage of race, sexual orientation or gender identities.
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New law will impose an additional 11% in addition to federal tax. It's one of nearly two dozen gun laws signed into law on Tuesday. but Newsom acknowledges some might not survive legal challenges.