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California Saving $40 Million a Day Thanks to Reduced Road Traffic due to Coronavirus

April 20, 2020 5:35 pm

A UC Davis study has found that since stay-at-home orders have been put into effect, California has been saving around $40 million a day due to reduced traffic and reduced crashes. According to the study, traffic has gone down on...

California Republican Party Asks Gov. Newsom To Prohibit Ballot Harvesting For California’s May 12 Special Elections

April 20, 2020 4:26 pm

The California Republican Party last week sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom asking him to prohibit ballot harvesting for the upcoming special elections on May 12, to avoid risks to public health and safety in light of COVID-19....

Senator John Moorlach (Kevin Sanders for California Globe)

Senator Moorlach’s SB 990 Would Suspend Freelance Job Killer Assembly Bill 5

April 20, 2020 3:42 pm

Independent contracting allows workers freedom and control of how and when they work. Many say under AB 5, their liberty and freedom has been taken away. Since Assembly Bill 5 became law January 1, 2020, millions of freelance and...

Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti Announces Historic Number of Furloughs During State of the City Address

April 20, 2020 3:00 pmApril 20, 2020 3:42 pm

On Sunday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced during the annual State of the City address that due to a budget shortfall caused by the effects of the coronavirus, a sweeping 26 unpaid days off of furloughs for all civilian...

California Needs to Reassess Stay-at-Home Orders to Prevent an Economic Tragedy

April 20, 2020 10:00 amApril 20, 2020 10:12 am

Before the public health and economic disasters wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic ruins more lives, California policymakers need to carefully assess the costs of a long-term lockdown and make common sense adjustments. About one-sixth of California workers have filed for...

Protest Groups Across California Demand Governor ‘ReopenCalifornia’ and #EndTheLockdown

April 19, 2020 3:32 pmApril 20, 2020 3:00 pm

The ‘false debate’ is not the discussion that considers the enormous human cost of suppressing economic activity – it’s the discussion that pretends there is no such tradeoff. One in six working Californians has applied for unemployment insurance since...

Nearly 16,000 Hotel Rooms Secured For Homeless, Surpassing Goal for ‘Project Roomkey’

April 19, 2020 2:26 amApril 18, 2020 10:32 pm

On Saturday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that Project Roomkey, the statewide effort to secure hotel rooms to be used by the homeless temporarily to keep COVID-19 coronavirus social distancing standards, had surpassed it’s goal of 15,000 hotel rooms across the...