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Today marks the opening of the Jenny Oropeza Global Studies Academy in Long Beach. The Academy, located at Rancho Dominguez Preparatory School, is named for State Senator Oropeza, who died in office shortly before the 2010 General Election. The official ribbon-cutting will take place at 3:30 pm today.
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Only one Medal of Honor awardee has ever been elected to the California Legislature. It was U.S. Navy Captain Willis W. Bradley, who was presented with the Medal during World War I. Bradley later served as Naval Governor of Guam (1929-1931), a Member of Congress from California (1947-1949), before being elected to the Assembly in […]
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