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In a news conference last Friday, U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui called climate change the defining challenge of our time.
Matsui, a Democrat from Sacramento, held the Nov. 4 news conference in a residential neighborhood in South Sacramento to discuss how the federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 can work on the ground to support energy independence and combat climate change.
For years, the neighborhood south of the California State University, Sacramento campus was defined by traffic jams and some under-used lots. “It was kind of a mess,” Sacramento City Councilman Jeff Harris said.
“It was just a matter of putting the pieces together.” One of those pieces is now complete: the 223-unit Wexler student apartment building has opened at the corner of 65th Street and Folsom Boulevard. More than 700 students live in the complex just a few blocks from the southern entrance to campus and adjacent to one of the region’s busiest mass transit stations.
A group of 10 U.S. House Democrats on Friday asked President Joe Biden's administration to build electric vehicle charging stations together with broadband internet infrastructure under the $1 trillion infrastructure law approved in November 2021.
As part of that measure, Congress set aside $42.45 billion in grants to expand broadband, including building fiber or other networks. It also included $5 billion for EV charging.
Congressional Spectrum Caucus co-chairs Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) and
Aging subterranean infrastructure in Sacramento will get a boost from $3.5 million in federal funding that will pay for future underground reservoirs to harden parts of the combined storm and sewage system within the city’s core.
A few hundred people supporting abortion rights gathered Tuesday evening outside a federal courthouse in downtown Sacramento, angry over a leaked draft opinion that shows the U.S. Supreme Court is on the verge of overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
They stood outside the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building, holding pink placards with the phrase “Healthcare Is A Human Right” and chanting “Stand up, fight back!”
The highest court in the country is likely to repeal Roe v. Wade, which has for decades offered protections to people when it came to receiving abortions, according to a leaked draft opinion.
SacTree unveils plans for new cherry grove overlooking Sacramento River at Matsui Park
A special place to celebrate cherry blossom time is coming to Sacramento’s river front.
On April 14, the Sacramento Tree Foundation unveiled plans to transform a lawn overlooking the Sacramento River into a Hanami Line – a gathering place framed by rows of flowering cherry trees.
Rep. Doris Matsui announces funding for Natomas levees during a press conference in Sacramento on Friday, April 15, 2022. "At this moment in time, we can see that we have the funding needed to complete the project," she said.
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Hundreds of millions of new federal dollars are headed to the region to help fund the massive Natomas levee project. President Joe Biden has signed legislation that includes $157 million for an existing project in the Natomas Basin, as well as $17.9 million to begin construction in West Sacramento. In addition, Biden’s budget proposal for fiscal 2023, the 12 month period that begins Oct. 1, includes another $172 million for the levee project and $79.7 million to help the West Sacramento project.