Tickets are on sale now. The new album, Historia, will be released on May 15th.

Counties across California, including Nevada County, have built permanent staffing and program obligations around temporary homelessness funding, creating a structurally unsustainable system that risks abrupt and painful collapse when the money inevitably runs out.

Nevada County native and California Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Sal Alberti has announced his candidacy for Nevada County Auditor-Controller.

Shauneen Gracey has announced her candidacy for Nevada County Treasurer-Tax Collector in the June 2, 2026 statewide primary election.

“Overspending is a chronic disorder in California. Fraudulent activities have been going on for so long that it has become de reguer.”

Nevada County’s annual Board of Supervisors workshop remains a repetitive, executive-controlled exercise that perpetuates vague, unending objectives instead of delivering focused, measurable results, and until the Board adopts a few clear, countywide priorities with real accountability and shared responsibility, this process will stay disconnected from the community’s pressing needs.

This compelling op-ed argues that preserving sex-based categories in school athletics is essential to uphold Title IX protections, ensure fair competition, and safeguard opportunities for adolescent girls, while offering practical accommodations for transgender students without compromising biological fairness.

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

“[The outcome] emerged from a sequence of decisions: early approvals without clear vesting analysis, an environmental review that struggled to build public confidence, internal reversals of staff recommendations, and final actions that shifted the dispute from regulation to litigation.”

We should all be glad to be in America at this unique time of peace and prosperity with a positive future ahead.

Obamacare’s broken promises on keeping plans/doctors and lowering premiums, combined with Democrats' temporary pandemic-era enhanced ACA subsidies expiring December 31, 2025—affecting mainly 2.6 million higher-income enrollees—have created a predictable fiscal cliff and partisan standoff, underscoring the need for bipartisan, durable health care reform.

The EU’s sanctioning of Swiss former colonel Jacques Baud for alleged pro-Russian propaganda, conspiracy theories, and information manipulation undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty raises concerns about free speech suppression, parallels to Soviet-era dissent criminalization and contrasts with robust First Amendment protections in the USA.

Andrew Klein’s routine reelection as NJUHSD Board President deserves congratulations amid manufactured controversy, while the Grass Valley racial violence attack must be condemned without evidence-free links to school governance, calling for consistent accountability, fairness, and rejection of intimidation from all sides.

The American constitutional system is not broken—our politics are—because partisan frustration over election outcomes and institutional miscalculations fuels dangerous calls for structural reforms like court-packing or ending the filibuster, risking long-term instability instead of pursuing bipartisan solutions on budget balancing, healthcare, and immigration reform.

The pattern emerging in Nevada County tells a different story.

Yantra + Mantra = Tantra

California’s Healthy Youth Act (CHYA) is one of the most influential education mandates in the state, shaping how districts large and small, urban and rural, approach sex education.

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.

California must require a two-thirds supermajority of all registered voters for any constitutional amendment to ensure broad consensus, protect fundamental rights like reproductive freedom and marriage equality, and prevent changes by slim majorities or low turnout.