COVID-19 – California Globe

‘Deadbeat’ Newsom Defaults on $20B Federal Loan, Businesses Stuck With The Bill

December 22, 2025 5:05 pmDecember 22, 2025 5:08 pm

California stands alone as the only state in the nation failing to repay its massive federal pandemic-era unemployment loan, now ballooning beyond $20 billion and projected to climb higher. While every other state responsibly used federal stimulus funds to settle...

The Black-Box Warning That Wasn’t

December 19, 2025 3:30 amDecember 19, 2025 3:31 am

For much of the past week, it appeared that something rare—and overdue—might finally happen at the Food and Drug Administration. Reports circulated that the agency was preparing to place a black-box warning on COVID-19 vaccines, the strongest safety warning the...

Gov. Newsom to Release Report on What the State Did Right and Wrong During COVID-19 Pandemic

July 23, 2025 11:56 amJuly 23, 2025 11:56 am

Governor Gavin Newsom announced earlier this week that a new report on his administration’s response to the COVID-19 will be out within the next month. According to Newsom’s office, the report itself has been in development for the last few...

It’s Time Former ‘Acting’ Labor Secretary Julie Su Faces Heat For California’s Pandemic Fraud

February 3, 2025 2:57 amFebruary 3, 2025 7:34 am

In 2020 during Governor Gavin Newsom’s statewide Covid lockdown, he announced the formation of a “strike team” to solve numerous issues plaguing California’s unemployment agency, the Orwellian-named “Employment Development Department: long wait times for unemployment claims, delayed payments, phone delays,...

Over 6 Million By-Mail, Early Voter Ballots Have Been Counted in California

November 1, 2024 7:06 amNovember 1, 2024 7:06 am

According to new figures from the California Secretary of State’s office released Thursday, over 6 million early votes have already been cast, with the number expected to grow to at least 12 million by election day. During the last presidential...

From the Cheap Seats: Flip the Script

October 18, 2024 4:55 amOctober 18, 2024 4:56 am

Two years ago, The Coast News published a commentary entitled “The Elephant in the Room,” referring to an enormous presence in school board elections — teachers unions. Now, an election looms in which that presence has grown bigger. We expect unions to...

California Mask Dictators Bringing Back Mask Mandates

October 10, 2024 8:24 amOctober 10, 2024 8:24 am

Four years after the Covid flu made its way onto U.S. soil, there are still Covid hysterics and even worse, Covid mask dictators and shot pushers, usually found in public health agencies. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that mask mandates...