Backpack, school supply giveaway at Dewey Elementary
A donation drive at Dewey Elementary School is helping families stock up on school supplies and backpacks ahead of the upcoming school year.
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CA nears first-in-nation ban on plastic glitter in cosmetics
By 2029, eyeshadows, nail polishes and other cosmetics that shimmer and shine from plastic glitter could be banned in California.
In the latest push to curb the prevalence of microplastics in the environment, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a first-in-the-nation bill that would ban the sale of personal care products that contain plastic glitter or plastic microbeads.
California Assembly Passes $15-a-Month Internet Bill
June 5, 2025 – The California Assembly on Wednesday passed a $15-a-month broadband affordability bill by a vote of 52–17.
The California Affordable Home Internet Act, introduced by Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, D-Encinitas, will now head to the state Senate, which is currently dominated by Democrats, who hold 30 of the chamber’s 40 seats.
California Assembly Committee Advances Broadband Affordability, Copper Retirement Bills
WASHINGTON, May 1, 2025 – The California State Assembly's communications committee advanced two broadband bills Wednesday, both of which will now be taken up by the chamber’s appropriations committee.
California $15 Low-Income Internet Bill Gets a Hearing
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2025 – The California Assembly Committee on Communications and Conveyance will hear testimony April 30 on a bill that would require internet service providers to offer a low-cost broadband option to qualifying low-income households.
The bill’s author, Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, D-Encinitas, also serves as chair of the committee that will preside over the hearing.
Meet the California Legislator Who Introduced the State's $15 Internet Bill
“A good friend of mine… calls this ‘the single mom with two kids bill,’” said California Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, speaking with Telecompetitor about the $15 internet bill she introduced last month.
“I always think about the single mom working two jobs — and her kids still have to get online and upload their homework to Google Classroom,” said Boerner.
California Democrat Releases $15 Internet Affordability Bill
WASHINGTON, March 24, 2025 – Following in New York’s footsteps, a California lawmaker was one step closer to advancing a sweeping legislative mandate to cap monthly internet bills at $15 for qualifying low-income households.
California Lawmaker Moves to Cap Broadband Prices
After Supreme Court upholds New York’s $15 Internet law, Tasha Boerner said she ‘looks forward to sharing her legislation soon.'
Feb. 27, 2025 – Now that the Supreme Court has once again declined to hear the broadband industry’s challenge to New York’s $15 Internet law, California Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, D-Encinitas, said Wednesday she was ready to move on legislation to establish a similar broadband affordability mandate in California.
Outstanding Local High School Students Honored at Encinitas Chamber of Commerce’s February Rising Star of the Month Program
The Encinitas Chamber of Commerce held its fifth Rising Star of the Month event for the 2024-25 school year on Feb. 5. The Chamber again partnered with MiraCosta College’s San Elijo campus which hosts and sponsors the monthly breakfasts honoring exceptional seniors from the local high schools in the San Dieguito Union High School District (SDUHSD).
Affordable Connectivity Program’s End Spurs State-Level Action on Broadband
States are exploring new approaches to maintain broadband affordability for low-income households.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2025 — With the federal Affordable Connectivity Program winding down, states are exploring new approaches to maintain broadband affordability for low-income households, according to panelists at a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event Wednesday.