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Governor Newsom Tests Positive For COVID-19

May 31, 2022 2:22 amMay 30, 2022 10:22 pm

During the weekend, Governor Gavin Newsom tested positive for COVID-19, the first time he has tested positive since the pandemic began in March 2020. In recent weeks, the Governor had increased his personal precautions against COVID-19, including receiving an additional...

Berkeley Unified School District Bring Back Mask Mandate For Rest of Year

May 23, 2022 4:52 pmMay 23, 2022 4:56 pm

The Berkeley Unified School District brought back indoor mask mandates for students, teachers, and staff on Monday with only two weeks left in the school year due to a rising number of COVID-19 cases in the Bay Area. At the...

LA School Board Votes 7-0 to Delay Mandatory Vaccines for Students Until July 2023

May 11, 2022 12:31 pm

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Board of Education voted to delay the system-wide student vaccination mandate by over a year following both similar statewide changes happening and the Board not wanting many families to choose between in-person classes and online...

COVID-19 Cases In California Remain Low Despite Upticks in Some Variant Cases in the Past Few Weeks

May 11, 2022 2:19 amMay 10, 2022 8:29 pm

More than three months following the massive drop-off in the number of new COVID-19 cases following the Omicron variant spike in late 2021 and January 2022, California has continued to keep COVID-19 cases low despite a recent number of new...

San Diego Comic-Con 2022: Proof of Vaccine, Mandatory Masks Required

May 6, 2022 5:32 pm

One of California’s largest and most well-known international events, the San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con), announced on Thursday that it would be bucking the trend of recent California events and return to both mask requirements and needing to be vaccinated...

Little Scrutiny Two Years After Gov. Newsom’s Odious $1B China BYD Mask Deal

May 4, 2022 12:21 pmMay 5, 2022 10:45 am

Two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shady no-bid $1 billion N-95 mask deal with newly formed BYD Mask company, there are still many questions surrounding the deals. Gov. Gavin Newsom approved spending $1 Billion of taxpayers funds on masks from...

Why are Public Bureaucrats Issuing Mask Mandates Again?

May 1, 2022 10:19 amMay 16, 2022 10:50 am

This story has been updated to add comment from BART Board member Debora Allen. Only 4 days after U.S. District Judge Kathryn Mizelle’s ruling that the Centers for Disease Control does not have the authority to issue a mask mandate...