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FAIRFIELD — The state legislation at the center of a Thursday afternoon rally would impact very few Solano County health care workers. Still, about 50 staff members and supporters gathered in the back of the Health & Social Services building on Beck Avenue to rally support for the bill. Senate Bill SB 525, authored by Sen. María Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, would create a
statewide $25-an-hour minimum wage for all health care workers in any health care setting, including contractors, starting Jan. 1. “So right now, it’s just getting support for Senate Bill 525, to get the awareness out there,” Akbar Bibb, a conservator investigator in the county Public Guardian’s office and vice president of Region A of Service Employees International Union 1021, said in an interview at the rally. See Rally, Page A8
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FAIRFIELD — This was not Samrya Lima’s first nature walk. In fact, much of what she heard during Thursday’s walk into the Suisun Marsh – at the 55-acre site of the future Pacific Flyway Center – she had learned before, but it was nice to get out into the world of birds, beavers and crawly things just the same. “I like to be out in the wildlife,” said Lima, 11, a fifth-grader at Nelda Mundy Elementary School. Various Nelda Mundy fifth-graders were guided through a mile-long nature walk, with various learning stops, by volunteers from the InterFifth-grade students from Nelda Mundy Elementary School learn how to national Bird Rescue. wash bird feathers during a field trip to the proposed site of the Pacific Flyway Center in Fairfield, Wednesday. See Marsh, Page A8
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Solano County health workers and supporters rally at the Health and Social Services building in Fairfield, Thursday. Demonstrators rallied to support California Senate Bill 525. If passed, the minimum wage for health care workers would increase to $25 an hour.
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Supreme Court rules for Google, Twitter on terror-related content The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the families of terrorism victims had not proved Google, Twitter and Facebook helped foster attacks on their loved ones, and handed a greater victory to the tech industry by declining to weigh in on a protective internet law at the center of the debate over social media regulation.
The families “never allege that, after defendants established their platforms, they gave ISIS any special treatment or words of encouragement,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for a unanimous court. “Nor is there reason to think that defendants selected or took any action at all with respect to ISIS’ content (except, perhaps, blocking some of it).” See Court, Page A8
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks during a portrait unveiling for former house speaker Paul Ryan in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Wa shing ton, D.C., Wednesday.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are making plans for votes in the coming days on a bipartisan deal to avert a catastrophic U.S. debt default. McCarthy said that negotiators on the federal debt limit may reach an agreement in principle as soon as this weekend, lining up a vote in his chamber. “I can see now where a deal can come together,” the California Republican told reporters Thursday at the Capitol. See Debt, Page A8
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