Here is the latest on the Dixie and Tamarack wildfires, which have scorched thousands of acres in California.
All 6.2 million California public school students will have the option to eat school meals for free when classrooms reopen for the fall term. The option was made possible by the state’s unexpected budget surplus. The program will be the largest free student lunch program in the country. “This is so historic. It’s beyond life-changing,” said Erin Primer, director of food services for the San Luis Coastal Unified School District on California’s Central Coast.
Lewis was a former House Appropriations Committee chairman who helped steer federal aid to the state after disasters but who was celebrated — and vilified — for earmarking millions of dollars to his Inland Empire district for pet projects. In Washington’s hyperpartisan climate, the affable Lewis was well liked by colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
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