Alex Padilla took the oath of office for his second term as California Secretary of State at the Secretary of State Office in Sacramento. Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court Tani Cantil-Sakauye administered the oath.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced additional incremental funding for a Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) to the California Department of Employment Development to assess workforce needs in response to wildfires that affected the state in October and December 2017.
Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.
A group of mostly Black women who were thrown off the Napa Valley Wine Train last Saturday for laughing too loudly, have received the corporate apology they were seeking, but the experience has left a bitter taste in their mouths. Eleven members of the Sistahs On The Reading Edge book club were booted off the train in an incident they feel was racially motivated. “We were singled out,” co-founder Lisa Renee Johnson shared with the OBSERVER. Ms. Johnson, who books an annual trip to Napa for the Antioch-based group, decided to have them do the wine train this year and