SACRAMENTO, California, May 14 -- The California Farm Bureau issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday presented his revised state budget plan, including spending cuts to address California's historic budget deficit. In his presentation, the governor also said California should live within its means and avoid raising taxes. California Farm Bureau President Shannon Douglass commented on budget challenges affecting water priorities for agriculture. She noted   more

LOS ANGELES, California, May 14 -- CodePink, a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, issued the following news release: CODEPINK strongly condemns the recent decision by a United States court to acquit the individual responsible for the heinous attack on the Cuban Embassy in Washington. It is deeply troubling that the court failed to classify this act as terrorism and instead attributed it to dementia, a m  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 14 -- Common Sense Media issued the following news release: Common Sense Media UK has expanded its board with the addition of two new trustees: Sir Jeremy Wright KC MP, former secretary of state at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport, and Jenny Afia, a leading privacy and reputation lawyer and Senior Partner at Schillings. Their support will amplify advocacy and education efforts in the UK and continue to deliver on Common Sense's mission to help  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 14 -- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the "Fine Arts Museums") are pleased to announce Mary Cassatt at Work, a major loan exhibition focused on the great woman Impressionist. The exhibition presents Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) as a fiercely professional artist and an aesthetically radical painter, pastelist, and printmaker who helped shape the French Impressionist movement a  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 (TNSres) -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: Moments ago environmental organization Food & Water Watch released a new report detailing a fatal flaw in California's carbon offset program: over half of the country's forests that are set aside to make up for fossil fuel and other corporations' climate pollution are at risk of literally going up in smoke. This new research bolsters what climate and environmental justice advocates have be  more

MONTEREY, California, May 14 -- The Monterey Bay Aquarium, a non-profit that focuses on conservation of the ocean, issued the following news release: Monterey Bay Aquarium joins Museums for All beginning May 27, 2024, providing free admission to anyone enrolled in federal food assistance benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known as CalFresh in California. Qualifying persons receive complimentary entry for up to four people with the presentation of a SNAP Elect  more