Sacramento Observer
SACRAMENTO – Homeowners will have increased protections from foreclosure under some of the hundreds of state laws taking effect with the new year. California also is studying whether to create the nation’s first state-administered retirement savings program for some 6 million private-sector workers, although it will take additional legislation before the program can be fully [...]
OPINION – Over the span of one week, two different sides of President Obama emerged in different yet unforgettable terms. This first was political, involving Susan Rice’s decision to withdraw her name as a candidate for Secretary of State. The second was deeply personal in the wake of mass murders in a Newtown, Conn. elementary [...]
WASHINGTON — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has chosen Rep. Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint in the Senate, a move that will make him the first African-American senator in the state’s history, a Republican official said Monday. Haley was expected to make the formal announcement at a noon news conference in Columbia, S.C., with [...]
OPINION- I am constantly amazed by the lack of any meaningful, insightful post-election analysis on the various media outlets (radio, TV, newspapers). You would think that everyone is hanging out at the same places because all the analysis seems to be the same: “Republicans have to find a way to garner more of the Hispanic [...]
WASHINGTON – Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration to be the next secretary of state after the embattled U.N. ambassador ran into a standoff with Republicans over an attack on Americans in Libya. President Barack Obama, in a statement, said he accepted Rice’s decision to remove her name from consideration. Obama decried what [...]
COLUMBIA – U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint’s resignation gives Gov. Nikki Haley authority to choose South Carolina’s next senator. A person close to Gov. Nikki Haley says the chief executive has narrowed her choice to five finalists. Her short list means South Carolina could have its first Black U.S. senator or first female senator. The person [...]
SACRAMENTO – Local business leader Allen Wayne Warren will be one of two new Sacramento City Council members sworn in this evening during a special ceremony at the new City Hall. Warren, the winner of the District 2 City Council race, will be joined by Steve Hansen, the winner of the District 4 City Council [...]
WASHINGTON – After a four-hour meeting of some the best minds in civil rights, business, education and the media, dozens of Black leaders from across the nation outlined a “Black agenda” that would be presented to President Barack Obama and Congress early next year. The leadership group was assembled by Marc Morial, president and chief [...]
WASHINGTON – Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman Emanuel Cleaver, II released the following statement congratulating CBC Members who will serve in key congressional leadership positions during the 113th Congress: “I am proud that CBC Members will continue to advocate for the interests of their constituents, African Americans and vulnerable communities as they serve in congressional [...]
SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Holly Mitchell (D-Culver City), in only her second term in public office, has been elected Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) by Caucus members for the 2013-2014 session. The Caucus, which addresses policy and budgetary issues affecting black Californians, consists of the nine African American members of the state’s Legislature, [...]
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