Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos have received a boost of $3.5 million in funding from the state, secured by state Sen. Lena Gonzalez, which will support much-needed maintenance and capital projects, the organizations recently announced.
Introduced by Senate Majority Whip Senator Lena A. Gonzalez, and co-sponsored by the Indigenous Environmental Network and Stand.earth, the resolution supports a global plan to create the missing framework for managing fossil fuel production.
The California State Senate has passed legislation that would require the state’s two powerful public employee pension funds to stop investing in fossil fuel companies.
On one side of a chain-link fence, a cluster of toddlers dig in the dirt next to Cabrillo High School in Long Beach. Nearby, a lawn mower prepares the field for the baseball team. It feels safe here, and clean.
LONG BEACH, Calif. — For all COVID’s negatives, there was one major upside for California workers last year: supplemental paid sick leave that guaranteed employees ten days off if they fell ill. For many service workers, that was a vast improvement from the three days of paid sick leave employers are required to provide under California law.
