Breaking down the race for California’s 9th Congressional District. Also, Sacramento’s Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Jack Ohman. Finally, the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe buys back their ancestral homeland.

California’s 9th Congressional District Race

California is poised to shape the political balance of power in Congress, with several competitive House seats across the state. That includes the 9th Congressional District race in the Central Valley. Gillian Brassil is the Washington D.C. Correspondent for The Sacramento Bee and dives into the race between incumbent Democrat Josh Harder and Republican opponent, Stockton Mayor Kevin Lincoln.

Pulitzer Prize Winning Political Cartoonist Jack Ohman

Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Jack Ohman is bringing some “Enlightenment” to downtown Sacramento this election season. He’ll appear at a Salon-style event hosted by the California Groundbreakers at Ruhstaller Wednesday, Oct. 30. He joins Insight in-studio to talk about covering politics in cartoon form.

Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe’s ‘Homeland Return’ 

The Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe set out to do something 60 years in the making. The tribe lost federal recognition in 1964, and this year they set out to buy back some of their ancestral homeland in the Sierra foothills - a 232-acre parcel at the site of the historic Nisenan village site of Yulića. We first checked in with the tribe back in April as they were closing in on their first fundraising goal to purchase the land. At the end of last month, escrow closed and the land is officially theirs. Shelly Covert is the Tribal Spokesperson for the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe and Executive Director of the California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project (CHIRP) and provides an update on the next steps.