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Public Records Request Reveals CA Sent Half-Billion$ to Newly Formed Mask Manufacturer

May 7, 2020 8:15 pmMay 8, 2020 8:49 am

California recently made a $1 billion purchase for millions of surgical face masks from a new and unvetted company. You may have heard about it. California Globe wrote on April 13, “There are many questions surrounding the government reaction to...

California Globe Files Public Records Request for Governor Newsom’s $1Billion Contract on Masks

April 23, 2020 3:00 pmApril 23, 2020 3:03 pm

California Globe just filed a California Public Records Request this week with Gov. Gavin Newsom for the contract the governor made with Chinese company BYD for 200 million surgical masks. The governor and his top officials have been asked by...

Senate Hearing Reveals California to Spend Estimated $7 billion on COVID-19 Crisis

April 17, 2020 7:52 amApril 18, 2020 8:47 am

Thursday the State Senate held their first virtual oversight hearing of the more than $2 billion in coronavirus spending Gov. Gavin Newsom has already committed. Lawmakers questioned Department of Finance officials, and in particular, the $1 Billion contract with Chinese-owned...

Some Decisions Don’t Add Up in California’s COVID-19 Spending and Policy

April 15, 2020 2:07 amApril 14, 2020 8:03 pm

While California residents have been under strict stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus crisis, the homeless vagrants living on city streets have been exempted from the city, county and statewide orders. Living in unsheltered filth, together with diseases many already have,...

Why Did Gov. Gavin Newsom Make Hurried $1 Billion Deal With China’s BYD for Masks?

April 13, 2020 2:11 amApril 14, 2020 8:10 am

There are many questions surrounding the government reaction to the COVID-19 virus, and especially in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom just approved spending $1 Billion of taxpayers funds on masks from Chinese company BYD. Following many requests from healthcare workers...

California Spends $1 Billion to secure 200 million masks a month

April 8, 2020 7:10 pmApril 9, 2020 2:17 pm

‘We need to spend what we need, but also need what we spend. And the Governor just went way beyond that this week without any oversight.’ On Tuesday, Governor Newsom announced that California would spend $990 million to receive...

San Bernardino County, City of Los Angeles Now Require Masks in Public for COVID-19

April 8, 2020 2:49 pmApril 8, 2020 2:51 pm

A few days after Riverside County enacted a mandatory mask-in-public law, both San Bernardino County and the city of Los Angeles announced their intention to make masks a requirement to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. San Bernardino’s law,...