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The Chimes

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The Chimes

Politics Rundown: California senators consider vaccines, omicron deaths climb, Congress blocks voting rights bill

Politics Rundown: California senators consider vaccines, omicron deaths climb, Congress blocks voting rights bill
Californians adapt to changing coronavirus restrictions.
Julianne Foster January 24, 2022

REQUIRED STUDENT VACCINATIONS State Sen. Richard Pan introduced a bill that forbids students from using the personal belief exemption to avoid school-based COVID-19 vaccination requirements. The Keep Schools Open and Safe Act aims to assure parents that their child’s in-person learning remains safe.  “The...

We need to expand voting rights

We need to expand voting rights
The conservative push to restrict voting disenfranchises the marginalized.
Evana Upshaw, Opinions Editor March 8, 2021

The 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, one of the most fateful moments in American civil rights history, is the first anniversary without the leadership of the late John Lewis. Led by him and Hosea Williams, a group of about 600 marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to find a battalion...