On a Monday evening, a new homework assignment was up for grabs in a Sacramento State special projects class. An instructor asked for a volunteer to look up the new California Assembly committee ...

Sacramento State students, from left, Richard Gucciardo, Ivan Urrutia and Monica Aceves talk with professor Gregory Mark after they joined lobbyists Richie Ross and Rob Fong in promoting a bill to ...

The idea is to give the students a behind the scenes look at how politics really work and eventually create a Capitol incubator of sorts at the university. In the course description, “Making a New Law ...