KXJZ-FM (Sacramento, CA)

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KXJZ (90.9 FM) is a noncommercial educational radio station licensed to Sacramento, California, United States. It airs programming from National Public Radio (NPR) and other public radio producers and distributors, as well as locally produced news and public affairs programs. It also offers a continuous 24-hour commercial-free classical music radio format on its HD2 subcarrier.[2] KXJZ's sister station in Sacramento is KXPR (88.9 FM), which broadcasts classical music and a few non-classical programs at the weekend. The two stations are known as CapRadio (formerly Capital Public Radio). Both stations are owned by Sacramento State and share studio operations on campus, and KXJZ's transmitter is located near Rio Linda. Source

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Country United States of America
Media Market Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto
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California’s state workers protest as return to office mandate takes effect

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By Laura Fitzgerald Verified
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A bill moving through the state legislature would enable state agencies to develop their own telework policies. It would also require the California Department of General Services to establish a telework dashboard evaluating the cost-savings and efficiency measures of remote work. Democratic Assemblymember Alex Lee of Milpitas introduced Assembly Bill 1729 and says he’s looking for ways to fast track the bill through the legislative process as state workers given the RTO deadline.
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California schools must follow new cellphone, bathroom and safety laws

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By: Diana Lambert This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Top Takeaways New California laws impact schools after summer break. Potential school employees will be vetted more rigorously. California schools must limit cellphone use under new law. When California students return after the summer break, their schools must have at least one gender-neutral bathroom and cellphone policies that limit their use during school hours.
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Transgender athletes still protected in California, Supreme Court rules

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By Carolyn Jones Verified
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By , CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California can continue its long-held policy of allowing transgender student athletes to play on girls’ and women’s sports teams, under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued Tuesday.
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Sac Unified’s free summer meals help stretch grocery budgets

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By Tony Rodriguez Verified
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A pizza pull-apart bread, strawberries, watermelon and chocolate milk were some of the summertime lunch options last week at Bowling Green Chacon Academy in South Sacramento.Five years ago, California became the first state to launch a statewide universal meals program. The change required public schools to offer free breakfast and lunch to all students.
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Hockey-focused sports center on horizon at Sunrise Mall

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By Keyshawn Davis Verified
| KXJZ-FM (Sacramento, CA) Verified
New beginnings are on the horizon in Citrus Heights with plans to transform parts of the old Sunrise Mall into a sports complex. The Sunrise Sports Center is a 14-acre project that will feature two National Hockey League (NHL) sized ice-sheets, and a state-of-the-art training facility.It will also include a 4,000-seat multipurpose arena, a 100,000-square-foot outdoor field for sports like soccer, baseball and football.
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Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits

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FILE - The Supreme Court is photographed, Feb. 6, 2026, in Washington. By: Mark Sherman WASHINGTON (AP) — A dividedSupreme Courton Tuesday upheld a broad conception ofbirthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. By a 6-3 vote, the court struck down Trump’s order.
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Rosanna Herber: a life of community service and representation

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By Ruth Finch
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Living in California was difficult. She didn’t have any friends, or a car, and she had trouble finding a job. Herber said she started talking to people, asking how to connect with the LGBTQ community in Sacramento at that time. “Everybody that I talked to said, ‘Oh, go talk to Linda Birner. She does the newspaper and you’ll love her,’” Herber said. Linda Birner was the creator and editor-in-chief of “Mom… Guess What?”, Sacramento’s first LGBTQ focused newspaper.
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Sacramento goes X Games mode: Here is how it went

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By Keyshawn Davis Verified, Riley Palmer
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The inaugural MoonPay X Games in Sacramento wrapped over the weekend featuring extreme sports and live-music, marking the official debut of the X Games League. Over 100 skateboarders, BMX and Moto X riders from around the world took over Cal Expo for the action-packed 3-day event, bringing huge crowds of spectators who were wow-ed by multiple (and seemingly impossible) “never-done-before” tricks.
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Trump wanted to cut the Department of Education into irrelevancy. A new report shows how he did it

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By Adam Echelman Verified
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By , CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The U.S. Department of Education may no longer be able to fully support students, it says in an internal report that lays bare the full extent of the Trump Administration’s first round of government cuts. The department lost about 40% of its staff from the day Trump was inaugurated on Jan.
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At least 117 dead dogs found in ‘horrific scene’ at California ‘no-kill’ shelter

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FORTUNA, Calif. (AP) — The remains of at least 117 dogs were found on the grounds of a California “no-kill“ animal shelter, many of them with gunshot wounds, authorities said. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that it also discovered 21 canine skulls, hundreds of bones and other remains during searches at Miranda’s Rescue Animal Sanctuary, a 50-acre (20-hectare) facility in Fortuna, California.
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KXJZ-FM (Sacramento, CA) Journalists

Conley, Paul
Davis, Keyshawn
Doherty, Kevin
Felts, Christopher
Fitzgerald, Laura
Forman, Victor
Gonzalez, Vicki
Hagan, Chris
Ibarra, Rich
Jeffry, Avery
Jones, Mark
Laschinsky, Sarit
Milne, Steve
Nichols, Chris
Nixon, Andrew
Peithman, Stephen
Picard, Jen
Reason, Jennifer
Rodriguez, Tony
Sandsor, Drew
Schilling, Sally
Towne, Nia
Vercelli, Gary G.
Zavala, Gerardo