Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen responded to allegations of racism in an exclusive sit-down interview with KCRA 3 s Stephanie Lin. It s absolutely untrue, said Singh-Allen. They made these ridiculous claims during the campaign and they re rehashing them now. In March, a group calling themselves the Elk Grove Hmong Americans initiated a recall effort against Mayor Singh-Allen. The co-founders of the movement, Mia Foster, Marie Vue, and Sai Vang, are accusing Singh-Allen of making what they consider a racist statement on social media that they say triggered hate against the Hmong community. She called our Hmong system intimidating, said Foster. She doesn t get to generalize about someone else s culture. In the social media post made back in June 2020, Singh-Allen calls out then-Elk Grove mayor Steve Ly, who is Hmong, to acknowledge the patriarchal clan system that is a controlling and intimidating system used to attack and silence local women. I have never said any
Last year was challenging in more ways than one: The pandemic altered many aspects of daily life for billions of people, the once-robust national economy took a big hit, and a contentious and protracted presidential election added to the uncertainty. But 2020 will also go down in history as a time when women made remarkable advances on the political scene. In the 2020 presidential election, women made up 53 percent of the electorate, according to the AP VoteCast survey; a record number of new congressional members are women and women of color; President Joe Biden appointed an unprecedented number of women to his cabinet; and former California Sen. Kamala Harris made
Earlier this week, the
Boyd Gaming broke ground on
Sky River Casino in Elk Grove, California. The new casino is scheduled to open in the second half of 2022 and
PokerNews has confirmed there are plans for a 12-table poker room.
The $400 million casino project, which is being built on 35.9 acres of land west of Hwy 99, was approved by the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) back in 2019. That followed the land having been placed in federal trust in February 2017 and then-Governor
Jerry Brown and the Tribe signing a Gaming Compact, the California State Senate and Assembly then unanimously ratified that compact.