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Two Firearms Bills To Face Senate After Passage In Assembly

June 15, 2020 6:15 pm

After being passed along party lines in the Assembly last week, two firearm bills that would update microstamping laws and increase firearm dealer fines will now face Senate discussion and voting this week. AB 2362 and AB 2847 One of...

Dismissive Media Crows Following Judge’s Order Suspending Gov. Newsom’s Mail-In Election Decree

June 15, 2020 3:37 pmJune 15, 2020 3:57 pm

Hooray for the Separation of Powers On Friday, Sutter County Superior Court Judge Perry Parker granted a temporary block on Governor Gavin Newsom’s Executive Order that requires all registered California voters to receive a mail-in ballot for the upcoming November...

Supreme Court Turns Down California Sanctuary Law Case

June 15, 2020 2:58 pmJune 16, 2020 3:03 pm

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused a Department of Justice request to review a federal appeals court decision that upheld the 2017 California sanctuary law. The Supreme Court refuses to hear the SB 54 case The law, Senate Bill...

California is Still Allowing COVID Patients in Skilled Nursing Facilities

June 15, 2020 7:28 amJune 15, 2020 3:01 pm

In March California Globe reported the California Department of Public Health was suspending nursing home relegations to allow for COVID-19 patients to be “discharged to a Skilled Nursing Facility when clinically indicated.” Following deadly COVID outbreaks in nursing homes and...

UC Berkeley History Professor’s Open Letter Against BLM, Police Brutality and Cultural Orthodoxy

June 14, 2020 8:05 amJune 14, 2020 8:10 am

An anonymous professor of history at U.C. Berkeley wrote open letter to colleagues lambasting the current narratives of “racial injustice” and “institutional racism” claimed by the BLM movement, and ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd. Zero hedge reports,...

College Savings Plan Bankruptcy Exemption Bill Passes Senate

June 14, 2020 7:53 amJune 15, 2020 2:58 pm

On Thursday, the Senate approved a bill that would stop creditors and debt collectors from taking Golden State Scholarshare 529 college savings plans in personal bankruptcy cases. Under Senate Bill 898, authored by Senator Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont), Golden State Scholarshare...

Do Senior Lives Matter?

June 13, 2020 8:41 amJune 13, 2020 9:09 am

It is unconscionable that it will have taken Santa Barbara’s Public Health Department more than 3 months to prioritize the Governor’s order pertaining to testing, tracing and isolating these patients and staff members. Last week, the county of Santa...