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Voters exit Avenal High School in Kings County on November 3, 2020. Photo by Clara Mokri for CalMatters
In summary
Despite election reforms designed to improve turnout in 2020, the gap between white and diverse voters remained significant.
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Raymiro Gomez-Galiano knocked on more than a thousand doors in Santa Clarita for the March primary, urging Latinos and other infrequent voters to turn out.
Just 17, the teen couldn’t even vote yet.
“I made sure to send people out there to vote on my behalf. That’s something that we all have the power to do,” said the teen, a volunteer with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights based in Los Angeles.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) With Christmas a week away, the Salvation Army, in the Sandhills, found great success in their annual Angel Tree Program, despite worries of less turnout because of the ongoing pandemic.
The local branch spent all of Thursday and Friday handing out gifts to more than 1,100 children and senior citizens, ensuring no one in the county goes without a present.
The drive-thru delivery system has been in place for several years, but Major Cheryl Grider, with the Sandhills branch, says this method of handing out the gifts was convenient for the times. It s very, haha, COVID friendly, Grider said.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) In light of current COVID-19 metrics, Cumberland County Schools (CCS) Superintendent Dr. Marvin Connelly has decided to adjust the school re-entry plan.
The announcement was made on Thursday evening. In a press release, it was revealed that K-12 will remain virtual for the first two weeks of the Spring semester to allow for a two-week virus incubation period after the holidays.
State and local health officials have shared with Eyewitness News that metrics have spiked after every holiday, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
#NEW: @CCSSuptConnelly has released the latest re-entry plan in Cumberland County. As a precaution, students K-12 will remain virtual for the first two weeks of the Spring semester. Full story at 11 on @ABC11 WTVD@CumberlandCoSchpic.twitter.com/Toas7YBAxM Michael Lozano (@MLozanoABC11) December 18, 2020
Teacher caught with student
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An English teacher from Cigarroa High School was arrested Tuesday after she was discovered with an undressed teen who turned out to be a student of hers, Laredo police said.
Laura Michelle Lozano, 46, was charged with indecency with a child by exposure. She is out on bond from the Webb County Jail.
The case was reported Monday.
Suspicious vehicle
At about 10 p.m., Laredo police responded to a suspicious vehicle report in the 1500 block of Pappas Street, near Border Region Behavioral Health Center.
Upon arrival, officers discovered a small white sport utility vehicle. A woman who was “nude from the waist down” was inside, said Investigator Joe E. Baeza, LPD spokesman.
In summary
California’s decision to mail a ballot to every registered voter resulted in record ballots cast in the general election but it was poor and diverse communities that fueled the increases.
California’s poor and diverse communities fueled the state’s record number of voters in November, with ballots cast increasing as much as 42% in Orange County’s poor neighborhoods, an analysis of final voting data shows.
Huge increases in voter registration and turnout swept through all sorts of California neighborhoods rich and poor; highly educated and blue collar; ethnically diverse and homogenous according to a Votebeat analysis of state and local voting data informed by census data.