Leading up to Election Day, advocacy groups were predicting — or at least hoping — that California voters would elect record numbers of women and LGBTQ people to the Legislature. Based on the results so far, it appears that history will be made — and that the state Assembly and Senate will look more like […]
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Will Women Rule in the 2022 California Election?
A gift or a curse? For Angelique Ashby, running as a “women’s advocate” in a heated state Senate race in Sacramento might be a little of both. Her competitor, Dave Jones, a fellow Democrat, went to court to block Ashby from using that as her ballot designation under her name, arguing that it wasn’t her […]
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Rally for Reproductive Rights in Eureka
A group of about 50 demonstrators gathered at a rally for reproductive rights in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse Tuesday night after a leaked draft U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion indicts the court may overturn the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, which instilled the legal right to abortion. As members of the crowd held […]
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A Newsroom Without Women
I spent #ADayWithoutAWoman at work. Not because I don’t support the cause; I do. But, like many women, striking is not an option at my job. So instead, I’d like to use the platform I have to talk a minute about the women with whom I work and the women who’ve made that work possible. […]