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Build the Wall (in Malibu): Development To Feature 6′ Barrier and 24-Hour Guard Tower

January 16, 2019 7:30 amJanuary 16, 2019 9:03 am

Recently, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, “A wall is an immorality. It’s not who we are as a nation.” Yet, in 2020, Malibu’s first gated community in more than 20 years will be completed....

Newsom Wants Tax on Water for ‘Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund’

January 15, 2019 1:30 amJanuary 14, 2019 8:33 pm

Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a tax on drinking water throughout the state to help poor communities in California deal with contaminated water systems. Newsom’s plan to establish a “safe and affordable drinking water fund” is in his budget proposal,...

Hedge Fund Media Group Offer to Buy Gannett

January 14, 2019 12:24 pmJanuary 17, 2019 1:03 pm

At least one-third of the largest newspapers across the United States experienced layoffs between January 2017 and April 2018, according to the Pew Research Center. Monday, reports of MNG Enterprises, backed by a New York hedge-fund, announced it made an...

LAUSD Strike: Teachers Union ‘Insulted’ by Latest Offer

January 14, 2019 1:25 amJanuary 16, 2019 1:49 pm

Gov. Gavin Newson has only been governor for seven days and is already facing the first strike in 30 years at the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school district. The United Teachers of Los Angeles labor...

What’s In Gavin Newsom’s 2019 ‘California For All’ Budget

January 11, 2019 5:00 amJanuary 17, 2019 1:04 pm

Self-described policy wonk Gov. Gavin Newsom presented his first Budget Summary 2019-20 Thursday – all 178 pages of it. “Full disclosure, this is something I really enjoy,” Newsom said. Newsom inherited a significant surplus of $15 billion and the...

Trump Threatens to Pull FEMA Funds from California

January 9, 2019 2:17 pmJanuary 11, 2019 8:21 am

President Donald J. Trump threatened to withhold emergency FEMA funding for wildfire relief if California can’t get its act together and start doing proper forest management. “Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that,...

Newsom Proposes State-Funded Health Coverage for Illegal Immigrants

January 9, 2019 6:30 amJanuary 9, 2019 7:01 am

Once he was sworn-in Monday as California’s 40th Governor, Gavin Newsom wasted no time in getting to work on his campaign promises, proposing state-funded full scope Medi-Cal healthcare coverage to 138,000 illegal immigrant adults ages 19-26. Newsom also reinstated the...