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Gov. Newsom Recall Heading for 2 Million Signatures

February 15, 2021 7:46 amFebruary 15, 2021 5:43 pm

With the $250,000 the Republican National Committee contributed to the effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and now with $125,000 from the state GOP, the RecallGavin2020 and Rescue California effort has picked up steam and tops the needed 1.5...

CA’s New Climate Change Legislation Claiming ‘Extreme Heat’ Is False

February 13, 2021 10:35 amFebruary 15, 2021 7:47 am

Climate change is back on the docket as the California Legislature gets underway in 2021. But buyer beware: one proposed bill would mandate California students are taught about climate change as early as first grade and would make the subject...

CA is Dead Last in Survey of States with Fewest Coronavirus Restrictions

February 11, 2021 11:23 amFebruary 11, 2021 11:23 am

In month 11 of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Coronavirus restrictions and lockdown of the state, the real damage is beginning to show. Millions of Californians filed for unemployment benefits during Newsom’s government-ordered business shutdowns. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses...

SF School Board’s Fast-Track Resolution to Eliminate Merit-Based Admission to Lowell High School

February 10, 2021 6:17 pmFebruary 12, 2021 11:28 am

San Francisco’s controversial Board of Education voted this week to end merit-based admission to Lowell High School, a top academic high school, and the city’s No. 1 public high school. “Lowell has stood out as a beacon of academic excellence...

SCOTUS Decision in State-Ordered Church Bans is Good News and Not Good News

February 10, 2021 2:11 amFebruary 11, 2021 9:38 am

The South Bay United Pentecostal Church vs. Newsom case, which challenged California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ban on all indoor worship services, under the auspices of protecting people from catching or spreading the coronavirus, was just decided on Friday. As attorneys...

CA Legislature Creating an ‘Office of Healthcare Affordability:’ What Could Go Wrong?

February 9, 2021 1:01 pmFebruary 11, 2021 9:37 am

The California Legislature has a proposal to create an Office of Healthcare Affordability. Sounding Orwellian, while a new agency focused on making healthcare more affordable may be just what the doctor ordered, this proposal creates a massive new bureaucracy and...

Whistleblower Allegations From Inside Gov. Newsom’s Billion-Dollar COVID Lab

February 8, 2021 5:17 pmFebruary 11, 2021 9:41 am

A blistering report Monday from CBS13 Sacramento reported thousands of inconclusive test results coming out of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $100 million COVID-19 testing lab with the $1.7 billion contract with PerkinElmer. All of this expense was supposed to ramp up...