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Senate to Hold Special Committee Hearing on Coronavirus Outbreak in State Prisons

June 24, 2020 2:37 pm

On Tuesday, Senate Public Safety Committee Chairwoman, Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), announced that a special oversight hearing on the coronavirus pandemic in California prisons would begin early next month due to the dramatic rise in deaths and cases. 4,500 coronavirus...

California Atty General To File Injunction to Force Uber/Lyft to Reclassify Drivers as Employees Within Weeks

June 24, 2020 1:11 pmJune 25, 2020 4:04 pm

Last month, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and city attorneys from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, sued Uber and Lyft, claiming the companies wrongfully classified drivers as independent contractors – even as Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), author...

Stem Cell Bond Measure To Be Placed On November Ballot

June 24, 2020 2:35 amJune 23, 2020 8:17 pm

On Monday, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced that a ballot measure to refund California’s stem cell agency received enough signatures and would be placed on the November 2020 ballot. The measure, if passed, would refund the California Institute...

California Bans State-Funded Travel To Idaho Over New Transgender Laws

June 24, 2020 2:21 amJune 23, 2020 8:02 pm

“I do not believe that protecting the rights of women and girls to participate in athletics or recording objective facts constitute discrimination.” Idaho Governor Brad Little On Monday, California banned all state-paid travel to Idaho following the state’s passage...

Academia Must Wake Up to Sophisticated Chinese Espionage Threat

June 23, 2020 2:33 pmJune 23, 2020 2:57 pm

Amid the frivolity of frat houses, football games and spring break parties lies a far more serious concern on America’s college campuses. “China’s Communist Party uses American professors and Chinese national students as ‘nontraditional collectors’ of valuable information,” explains Congressman Michael...

FBI Arrests LA City Councilman Jose Huizar on Bribery and Racketeering Charges

June 23, 2020 2:13 pmJune 24, 2020 5:18 pm

‘Mr. Huizar was busy enjoying the fruits of his alleged corruption while his criminal enterprise sold the city to the highest bidder behind the backs of taxpayers.’ ~FBI Los Angeles Assistant Director Paul Delacourt On Tuesday, FBI Agents arrested Los...

Covid Facts, Not Fear, Should Drive California Reopening

June 23, 2020 12:04 pmJune 23, 2020 2:09 pm

In spite of this testing increase, the number of documented new infections nationwide has remained flat. The media is trumpeting recent geographic increases in documented Covid-19 cases to implicitly or explicitly shame states that are reopening their societies. “Record spike...