The War on Drugs has failed to address addiction, overdose, crime, and community breakdown, and instead has criminalized pain, isolation, poverty, and race, resulting in a public health disaster and a war on people, especially the most vulnerable among us.
The Trump administration has taken steps to send immigrants allegedly present illegally in the United States to El Salvador, despite a federal judge blocking the move, and has suggested sending them to Libya, which has been warned by the State Department not to visit, raising concerns about the erosion of civil liberties and the potential danger of sending American citizens to foreign prisons.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 19 other state attorneys general are calling on the Trump administration to immediately reinstate tens of millions of dollars in Title X family planning funding that was suddenly revoked, warning that clinic closures, layoffs, and reductions in access to essential health services for low-income communities will result.
Sacramento County Supervisor Rosario Rodriguez is deflecting concerns about homelessness by blaming lack of coordination between agencies, while the root cause of the problem is poverty and lack of affordable housing, which can be addressed by taxing vacancy and property hoarding, and building affordable housing.
SACRAMENTO, CA – California Governor Gavin Newsom late last week announced the granting of 16 pardons and…