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California Threatens New Indoor Mask Mandates as Other States Mostly Ignore

July 26, 2022 2:44 amJuly 26, 2022 5:27 pm

As California’s most draconian public health official, Barbara Ferrer of Los Angeles, threatens new indoor mask mandates, all other states are mostly ignoring whatever Covid variant is spreading. Why? Because while there may be more “cases” of Covid showing up,...

BART Board Votes to Reinstate Mask Mandate on All Trains Following Dismissal of Federal Mandate

April 29, 2022 1:37 pm

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) board members voted 7-0 to reintroduce the mask mandate on all trains on Thursday, becoming the second California rapid transit system to bring back masks in a week. According to the new mandate, made by...

Senate Democrats Kill Chance to End California’s 700-day COVID State of Emergency

March 15, 2022 12:36 pm

SCR 5 is a resolution authored by Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore), seeking to end Governor Gavin Newsom’s declared COVID-based State of Emergency, which has continued uninterrupted for 700 days – two years. Originally written nine months after the governor’s...

‘Back to the Future’ California Recap and 2022 Political Predictions

January 2, 2022 2:15 amJanuary 3, 2022 4:19 am

While political pundits predict a red wave across the country in the 2022 midterm elections, many even anticipate a wave of change in the Golden State. How big the California wave is, and what form it will take, will be...

Fascinating and Repulsive: Sen. Rand Paul’s Annual ‘Festivus’ Report of Wasteful Government Spending

December 23, 2021 7:46 amDecember 27, 2021 3:36 pm

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s just released his annual “Festivus Report” of wasteful government spending. The 2021 listing does not disappoint. Festivus is a holiday celebrated on December 23rd, created on the Jerry Seinfeld Show by Frank Costanza, George Costanza’s father,...

Did California Health Officials Just Say COVID Vaccine Doesn’t Stop Transmission?

December 16, 2021 11:43 amDecember 16, 2021 11:43 am

The California Department of Industrial Relations just updated its CalOSHA Safety and Health standards to reflect changes in COVID protocols. The primary change to the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board’s revised temporary rule appears to “erase distinctions between...

SF Mayor London Breed Goes Clubbing Again While the City Collapses

November 29, 2021 4:34 pm

San Francisco Mayor London Breed was video recorded this weekend dancing at a club. Sure, it sounds innocuous. She’s entitled to a life, the Twitteratti says. But this isn’t the first time Mayor Breed has violated her own mandates, in...