John Govsky News Today

The majority of community college faculty are limited to working part time, often commuting from one district to another. A bill before the governor would allow colleges to increase the number of hours part-time faculty can work in a single district.

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was long celebrated for his historic 1542 voyage along the California coastline, becoming the first European to explore the state. And in 1959, when a new community college was founded in Aptos, in central Santa Cruz County, officials named it in his honor — following the example of numerous other namesakes, including a national monument near his landing spot in San Diego and a nearby stretch of Highway 1. But behind his once-glossy public image is a brutal side to the...