By Nicholas Ibarra | OBSERVER Staff Writer All listed events, and more, can be viewed online on The OBSERVER’s community events calendar at SacObserver.com. Be sure to submit your events two weeks in advance to have the chance to be featured on the list. 2024 Administrator of the Year Awards Gala – 5:15-7:45 p.m. Monday, May 13, at Hilton Sacramento Arden West. Join a night of dinner and awards celebrating and recognizing administrators in Sacramento County. Dinner choices include prime rib, salmon with mango and pineapple salsa, or asiago ravioli. Tickets from $60.  “UNZIPPED: An Autops ..read more

(CALMATTERS) – Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to unveil his revised proposed 2024-25 state budget at 11 a.m. today — and legislators, advocates and lobbyists are all bracing for likely deep spending cuts to bridge a big deficit.  His plan will account for updated tax revenue data through April. In his initial budget proposal in January, Newsom projected the shortfall to be $38 billion, though the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office later put it as high as $73 billion.  How are revenues working out so far? According to Assembly budget advisor Jason Sisney, general fund revenu ..read more

Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer Geriatric mental health took center stage as seasoned actress and author Jenifer Lewis shared her triumph over mental and physical challenges as the keynote speaker for the National Council on Aging’s seventh annual Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Day Symposium. “I’m aging. We’re all aging,” said Lewis, 67, during an early morning talk that kicked off the event, held virtually on May 2. The lively chat was moderated by council President and CEO Ramsey Alwin. Lewis is often referred to as the “Mother of Black Hollywood” for her many TV and film r ..read more

Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer Greater Sacramento Urban League hosted a groundbreaking May 3 for its “Hub in the Heights” development that will include affordable housing as well as retail and office space. The site sits next to the Greater Sacramento Urban League office on 3725 Marysville Blvd. and will have 68 rental units, 75% of which will be designated affordable, and two levels of retail space. Hub in the Heights will cost roughly $38 million, approximately $5 million of which has been raised, and will take 21/2 years to complete once construction begins, said Dwayne Crenshaw ..read more

By Carla K. Johnson | The Associated Press (AP) – Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential U.S. task force. Women ages 40 to 74 should get screened every other year, the group said. Previously, the task force had said women could choose to start breast cancer screening as young as 40, with a stronger recommendation that they get the exams every two years from age 50 through 74. The announcement Tuesday from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force makes official a draft recommendation announced last year. The recommendation ..read more

By David Fischer | The Associated Press This photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, shows Senior Airman Roger Fortson in a Dec. 24, 2019, photo. The Air Force says the airman supporting its Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Fla., was shot and killed on May 3, 2024, during an incident involving the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. (U.S. Air Force via AP) MIAMI (AP) — Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for th ..read more

By Bianca Vazquez Toness | The Associated Press FILE – Tameka’s 8-year-old daughter ties her shoe before running out to play in Atlanta on Dec. 5, 2023. Four months after The Associated Press wrote about this Atlanta family struggling to enroll in school, all of the children — in a complete turnaround — returned to class last month. (AP Photo/Bianca Vázquez Toness, File) ATLANTA (AP) — Four months after The Associated Press wrote about an Atlanta family struggling to enroll in school, all of the children — in a complete turnaround — returned to class last month. The project on Monday was ..read more

By Alexei Koseff (CALMATTERS) – The California Supreme Court will decide in the coming weeks whether to remove a sweeping anti-tax measure from the November ballot, blocking an effort to increase the requirements for implementing taxes, fees and other government charges in the state before voters have a chance to weigh in. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Legislature and others sued last fall to stop the business community-sponsored initiative, arguing that it amounts to an illegal attempt to revise the California Constitution and would impair essential government functions. With a June 27 deadline to s ..read more

(US MEDIA GROUP) – The State Board of Education has granted approval to a district’s request to change the first day of school for the 2024-25 school year to Monday, Aug. 19. The decision was made in response to a plan aimed at avoiding a $47 million fine from the state. The approved plan, announced on Monday, will add eight additional days of instruction each year for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years. The move comes after a teachers and staff strike in the 2021-22 school year resulted in the loss of eight days of instruction. In order to secure a waiver from the State Board of Education ..read more

Bo Tefu | California Black Media Sen. Laphonza Butler Introduces Bill to Honor Rep. Shirley Chisholm With Congressional Gold Medal, Statue U.S. Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) announced last week she is co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill to honor Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to the United States Congress. Butler, the only Black woman currently serving in the U.S. Senate, and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA.) proposed the legislation to posthumously endow Chisholm with Congress’s highest award in commemoration of her accomplishments, activism, and legacy. If the bill passe ..read more