Sen. Lowenthal Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from California Community College Board of Governors

California Community Colleges Chancellor Jack Scott and members of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors today honored four lawmakers for their leadership in improving the state’s 112 community colleges.
Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) received the board’s highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on a variety of bills, including his leadership ...

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Sen. Lowenthal Comments On Ninth Circuit Ruling On Prop 8

California state Senator Alan Lowenthal has issued the following statement on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruling that California’s ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, is unconstitutional: "The Ninth Circuit has reaffirmed what most of us already knew--that Proposition 8 is discriminatory. This is the exact same discrimination we have seen all too often in this country, from the streets of Selma to the suffrage marches of the 1920s." "The appellate panel has made it clear, as many courts before have done, that the ...