Walk to School Day pushes Safe Routes in California
Opinion piece urges communities to adopt Safe Routes to School programs amid growing neighborhoods. Highlights California reach with 800 plus schools, Reedley enforcement stats, and Shafter traffic concerns. Encourages Walking School Bus concept and multilevel support from parents teachers and officials.
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California
Department of Health Services
Highway Patrol
Caltrans
City of
Oakland
Central Valley
Reedley
Shafter
Lerdo
James
Five Points
Freedom Homes
Shafter Avenue
Hous
Ing
California Department of Health Services
Prop 49 debated as mandatory after school funding
The piece discusses Prop 49 in California, backed by educators and law enforcement, with critics led by Barbara Inatsugu of the League of Women Voters. It argues the measure would entrench funding annually regardless of budget realities, reducing flexibility and potentially diverting funds from other programs while lacking annual performance oversight.
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California
League of Women
Voter’s of California
Barbara Inatsugu
Insatsugu
Kern County Economic Opportunity Corporation
KCEOC
Healthy
League of Women Voters
Inatsugu
Bakersfield
Escaping life for a season and finding rest at home
The piece argues that running away from stress is futile and vacations reveal how good home is. It cites Psalms and James Dobson to urge endurance through faith. It contrasts the burdens of family life with temptations to seek escape, concluding true satisfaction comes from contentment and union with the Lord.
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Israel
David
James Dobson
Glen Campbell
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