BARSTOW, CA – February 21, 2025 – After an extensive selection process and a unanimous City Council vote on Feb. 18, the City of Barstow has announced that Rochelle Clayton has been named as Barstow’s new city manager. She enters her new position on March 10, 2025, with more than 10 years of city management…
LOS ANGELES – Homeowners and renters who have incurred damage or losses from the Los Angeles County wildfires that began Jan. 7 have until Monday, March 10, 2025, to apply for FEMA Individual Assistance. The program provides financial and other assistance to eligible individuals and households to help meet their basic needs and supplement their…
Nationwide — Snoop Dogg addressed the backlash from fans who criticized him for performing at one of Donald Trump’s pre-inauguration events. In a recent Instagram Live session, the rapper fired back at critics and shared his thoughts on the hate he’s been receiving. Snoop, 53, recently shared a live video while enjoying gospel music in…
Donald Trump and his hate-filled administration have launched another racist attack, this time aiming at Black pilots and diversity efforts in the aviation industry. In a stunning display of bigotry disguised as governance, Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum ordering the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to eliminate hiring policies designed to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion…
MEDIA STATEMENT for any follow-up CARB stories relating to BNSF & the City of Barstow: From the City of Barstow: “In light of the news that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has withdrawn its request for locomotive rules to reduce emissions, the City of Barstow is pleased with this decision and what it means…
LOS ANGELES — In the wake of one of the most devastating natural disasters in California history, Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the launch of LA Rises, a unified recovery initiative that brings together private sector leaders to support rebuilding efforts led by the city of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County and the State of…
Parents Beware: Valid National Security Concerns and TikTok’s U.S. Toxic Version Pushed to America’s Children Make it a Double Threat Washington, D.C. – Enough Is Enough applauds the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling upholding a federal law that could ban TikTok unless its Chinese-owned company, ByteDance, sells its U.S. operations by January 19, 2025. In his…
Parents Beware: Valid National Security Concerns and TikTok’s U.S. Toxic Version Pushed to America’s Children Make it a Double Threat Washington, D.C. – Enough Is Enough applauds the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling upholding a federal law that could ban TikTok unless its Chinese-owned company, ByteDance, sells its U.S. operations by January 19, 2025. In his…
MIAMI, Dec. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — From the heart of Latino Wall Street @latinowallst, we want to express our support and extend our deepest condolences to the employees affected by the recent mass layoffs at Univisión, Telemundo, CNN, and other national news networks. We recognize that receiving such devastating news during the holiday season is…
Washington, DC – Sept 18, 2024: The Reparation Education Project (REP) is proud to announce the public unveiling of its powerful new video, “Reparations: From Concept to Reality,” produced to elevate the discourse on reparations in the United States. This six-minute resource, scripted and narrated by veteran reparationist Attorney Nkechi Taifa, Executive Director of the…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Francisco Sánchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded California small businesses of the June 24, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury caused by Tropical Storm Hilary in Riverside County that occurred Aug. 19…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Francisco Sánchez Jr., administrador asociado de la Oficina de Recuperación y Resiliencia ante Desastres (ODR&R, por sus siglas en inglés) de la Agencia Federal de Pequeños Negocios (SBA, por sus siglas en inglés), les recordó hoy a los pequeños negocios de California la fecha límite del 24 de junio de 2024 para…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Key provisions from U.S. Senator Alex Padilla’s (D-Calif.) bill, which he co-led with Representatives Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.-33) and Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.-34), to support minority- and women-owned businesses were signed into law by President Joe Biden. The provisions from the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Supportive Services Expansion Act, which were incorporated into the Federal…
Settlement in First-Ever Civil Lawsuit Addressing the Use of Electronic Communications to Intimidate Voters NEW YORK – Civil rights plaintiffs and the state of New York agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit in which defendants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were found to have broadcasted robocalls to more than 85,000 numbers in New York,…
FRESNO, Calif. –The California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) today celebrated the creation of more than 13,000 construction jobs helping build the nation’s first high-speed rail system, with more than 70 percent of those jobs going to residents of California’s Central Valley. *Numbers reflect jobs created in Central Valley counties where high-speed rail is under…
Otto Instrument Service Inc. was in a bind. Business was strong, but like any company in the aerospace and defense sector, Otto was facing a deadline to meet increasingly stringent federal cybersecurity requirements. With a one-person Information Technology (IT) team and time running out, the Ontario small business faced the elimination of 18 jobs. That…
RENO, Nev., Nov. 20, 2023 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced today that USDA is strengthening its longstanding partnership with the Small Business Administration (SBA) to create jobs and expand access to new and better market opportunities for people in rural America. “The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to a…
Trains will bring visitors to celebrate site unique to California’s African American history (Stockton, CA) – Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park is holding a celebratory “re-dedication” event on Saturday, October 14 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. In partnership, Amtrak San Joaquins has scheduled a special stop at the park for multiple trains, bookable at…
84% of those surveyed expressed interest in hearing and doing more to conserve SACRAMENTO, CA — California’s Save Our Water Campaign today announced the results of its survey of 35 Black chambers of commerce and Black-owned business leaders. The survey was the first step in a statewide effort to listen to leaders in the community,…
Impacted Riverside County residents have until Sept. 19 to report food loss. RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. —CalFresh households that experienced food losses due to Tropical Storm Hilary and used benefits to purchase that food have until September 19 to report the losses and request replacement benefits. The state recently approved extending the standard reporting period for…
Move to Work allows greater flexibility to improve housing choice and self-sufficiency. WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published PIH NOTICE 2023-20 seeking applications for the Overall Impact of Moving to Work Flexibility and Administrative Efficiencies Cohort of the Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program. The notice outlines the…
The Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court of the United States 1 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20543 Dear Chief Justice: On behalf of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers (NAMAD), we write to express our strong disagreement with the recent Supreme Court decision to disallow affirmative action in college applications. We…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.) announced that California was awarded over $1.8 billion in funding for broadband access through the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, a key component of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This funding will help to deploy affordable, reliable high-speed Internet infrastructure to…
SACRAMENTO, CA(2/27/23)Assemblymember James C. Ramos (D-San Bernardino) announced today he received the Riverside Sheriffs’ Association’s 2023 State Elected Official Award from the association at the group’s annual Board of Directors Awards Banquet. “I am honored and proud to receive this award from the men and women who place their lives on the line to protect…
The First Amendment Coalition is pleased to announce the winners of its 2022 Free Speech and Open Government Award: three journalists who strategically used public records to expose government misconduct and accountability failures. Some of this work resulted in significant government reforms. Through more than 50 public records requests, 15,000 pages of documents, and a…