Placer County Local News: History


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06/29/2022
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Part Two of a 2-part explainer on what SCOTUS might do after overturning Roe v. Wade.

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06/28/2022
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Part One of a two-part Explainer on what SCOTUS may do after overturning Roe v. Wade

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06/09/2022
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Immigration was changing California long before the territory became a state.

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05/25/2022
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If you invested in cryptocurrency just six months ago, you're bleeding money now.

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05/25/2022
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Electronic banking dates back at least to 1953.

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05/20/2022
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California could soon shut down its last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon.

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05/05/2022
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The richest of the rich are increasing their control of information outlets in the U.S. and globally

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05/05/2022
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A leaked Supreme Court opinion draft reveals that Roe v. Wade will be overturned.

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05/02/2022
Placer Land Trust has transferred ownership of 40 acres above the North Fork of the American River to the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe, composed of Nisenan, Maidu and Miwok people. Tribal Chairman Clyde Prout III said, “Now we have a place where we can keep our traditions going.”

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04/25/2022
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Cities too often impose crippling fines on struggling homeowners. What can be done to change the system?

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04/13/2022
In the mid-1970s, if you were a Tahoe/Truckee music lover, that probably meant listening to KSML, “The Radio Voice of the Secret Mountain Laboratory.” On local airwaves from late ’74 until early ’77, it was a countercultural alternative to traditional radio.

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04/13/2022
If you hang around long enough in these waning days of the Biltmore—as a Moonshine Ink reporter did—you might meet people who are there getting the last of Tahoe’s daily affordable happy hours.

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04/13/2022
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The state’s first major gun control law was signed in 1967 by Gov. Ronald Reagan.

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04/12/2022
There are approximately 6 million items in the inventory of the California State Library. Four million of those are books, and nearly 2,000 of those are law books.

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04/05/2022
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Will California make reparations payments to the descendants of enslaved African-American people?

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03/31/2022
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Newsom calls for new civil court system that could compel treatment for people experiencing mental health crises.

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03/25/2022
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Remember the UFW cofounder on March 31 by volunteering for a good cause

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03/23/2022
Gene Chapman has retired after selling the Chapman Monument Company in Roseville, which produced headstones, monuments, and private and public art projects for 37 years. The sale was to a local contractor, and for the first time since 1880, it will no longer be the site of a monument company.

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03/23/2022
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Defense spending built modern California. Though military dollars have declined, the industry still shapes the state. Here’s how.

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03/15/2022
As part of its Reexamining Our Past Initiative, California State Parks is seeking input on a proposal to change the way history is interpreted at Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park. The effort will provide visitors with more inclusive and historically accurate information.