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Wendy Willoughby and Olivia Pritchett’s woke equity policies on the Nevada Joint Union School Board mirror Hitler Youth indoctrination, replacing academics with identity narratives. This erodes critical thinking, fosters intolerance, and threatens democratic backsliding by producing citizens unfit to steward liberty.
In Nevada County, public employee compensation has roughly doubled to $160,000–$170,000 per worker while median household income stagnates near $79,000. Meanwhile, the county pension system’s funding has dropped sharply to 63%, ballooning unfunded liabilities and straining future budgets.
Recent Supreme Court rulings are reshaping the “wall of separation” between church and state in public schools — expanding religious expression while testing the boundaries of government neutrality.
Is Nevada County’s budget truly structurally balanced? No. Using one-time surplus to fund ongoing costs while adding staff and growing pension debt is not fiscal discipline—it’s postponing the problem.
“…the same people screaming this line in the streets are, in fact, doing the bidding of a foreign-born billionaire who is attempting to sabotage a duly elected president. Go figure!”
“The Grand Jury serves an important function, but that function is not to direct school boards on what policies they should adopt.”
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High school students at Nevada Union High School walked out of class Tuesday afternoon, January 20, and marched to downtown Grass Valley in a protest marked less by a single unifying cause than by a broad—and often profane—collection of grievances.
District officials warned that an immediate move into CIF competition would create serious problems for students
California’s Prop 50 lets lawmakers redraw congressional maps. The lawsuit against Gavin Newsom alleges racial gerrymandering to create Hispanic districts, violating Equal Protection and the Voting Rights Act. Plaintiffs and DOJ say race predominated over neutral criteria in redistricting in violation of the civil rights of California residents.
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