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SF $653 million budget deficit: Mayor Breed Asks For 7.5% Budget Cuts

December 18, 2020 2:02 amDecember 17, 2020 10:02 pm

On Wednesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced that, due to a projected $653 million budget deficit over the next two years, all departments have to come up with up to 10% in cuts across the board. The deficit, which...

Sen. Grove Sends Bipartisan Signed Letter To Gov. Newsom Urging Food Industry Reclassification

December 17, 2020 6:04 pm

On Wednesday, Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) sent a letter signed by prominent Republican and Democratic Senators asking Governor Gavin Newsom to reclassify the food service industry as critical infrastructure. The letter said that the reclassification would allow restaurants...

Bill to Crosscheck EDD Applicants With Prison Records Introduced in Assembly

December 17, 2020 2:15 pmDecember 18, 2020 10:11 am

On Thursday, a new bill was introduced in the Assembly that would require the Employment Development Department to check benefit applications against prisoner incarceration records. Assembly Bill 110, authored by Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach), would cross-check all EDD benefit...

California Nurses Union Plans Holiday Strike Over PPE Shortage

December 17, 2020 2:12 pmDecember 17, 2020 2:30 pm

On December 14, 2020, nurses’ union SEIU Local 121RN, which represents nearly 2,000 workers across three hospitals in Southern California, threatened a 10-day strike, from December 24 to January 3. Union leadership claims the three hospitals “aggressively rationed personal protective...

Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, and Dianne Feinstein On San Francisco School District Naughty List

December 17, 2020 12:31 pmDecember 17, 2020 12:39 pm

The San Francisco Unified School District “is planning to rename a school named after Abraham Lincoln because the former president did not demonstrate that ‘black lives mattered to him.” President Abraham Lincoln, considered one of the greatest U.S. Presidents in...

Complaint Alleges Long Beach Police Officers Were Involved in ‘Super-spreader Event’

December 16, 2020 9:16 pm

Earlier this week, Long Beach community groups filed a complaint against the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) charging that the LBPD willingly hosted a large COVID-19 super-spreader event in early November. The complaint, filed by the People of Long Beach...

BREAKING: HHS Announces $200 Million Withholding of Medicaid Funds From California

December 16, 2020 6:05 pmDecember 18, 2020 10:13 am

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that $200 million in Medicaid funding will be withheld from California in the first quarter of 2021 over illegally mandating that all health care plans in the state...