AB 2074, a California housing proposal, would accelerate high-rise residential development in the state's largest and most transit-rich cities by providing faster approvals, clearer zoning standards, and a new state-backed financing tool to help projects that have struggled to move forward.
Douglas Stankewitz's defense attorneys have filed a motion to obtain decades of records from the Fresno County District Attorney's Office in order to evaluate whether race played an unlawful role in his prosecution and punishment, citing the California Racial Justice Act.
The ACLU is fighting back against the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign, which is an attempt to punish migrants and strip them of opportunities for lawful immigration status, by filing lawsuits to stop ICE's unlawful policies and protecting immigrants' rights on multiple fronts.
Essential workers were called heroes during the pandemic, but were denied hazard pay and living wages, highlighting the contradiction of the "unskilled labor" label which is used to justify poverty wages and devaluation of caregiving, teaching, and nursing.