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A welcome sign to travelers along Route 66 is posted on the marquee at the closed 1929 historic theater in Needles on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. The small desert city of 5,000 residents is hopeful that increased tax revenue from cannabis will lead to growth. In past years, a friendlier business environment and lower cost of living across the Colorado River, in Arizona, put Needles at an economic disadvantage, forcing many of their local businesses to shutter. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Needles: The California desert city seeking to be a gun sanctuary also likes cannabis

February 19, 2020 at 3:10 p.m.

Needles has declared itself a sanctuary for gun owners and is looking to the state to exempt the city from certain gun laws.

California will audit school districts to find the number of homeless students

March 8, 2019 at 6:44 a.m.

In California, schools are legally required to identify homeless students, provide services to those students and report the data back to the state, yet a quarter of all schools in...

Assemblymembers James Ramos, D-Highland, David Chiu, D-San Francisco and Luz Rivas, D-Arleta, speak before the Joint Committee on Legislative Audit about their request to audit school districts’ procedures identifying homeless students Wednesday, March 6. (Courtesy Assemblyman James Ramos’ office)

California will audit school districts to find the number of homeless students

March 7, 2019 at 9:01 a.m.

The audit, requested by Assemblymembers James Ramos, D-Highland, David Chiu, D-San Francisco and Luz Rivas, D-Arleta, will examine districts’ procedures for identifying and serving homeless students.

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