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Teaching Lawmaking in California

March 6, 2020 5:37 amMarch 6, 2020 5:52 am

By Chris Micheli and Diane Boyer-Vine As part of its efforts to enhance its Capital Lawyering Program, the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law offers a number of courses to train aspiring lawyers who plan to work in...

Mother of San Bernardino Terrorist Charged with Destroying Evidence

March 6, 2020 5:10 amMarch 6, 2020 6:58 am

December 2 will mark five years since Islamic terrorists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik murdered 14 people and wounded 22 at an office holiday party in San Bernardino. As the San Bernardino Sun reported, Rafia Farook, mother of Syed Farook,...

Tom Lackey and Steve Fox Will Face Off for the Fourth 36th Assembly District Election in a Row

March 5, 2020 4:07 pm

For the 4th time since 2014, Assemblyman Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale) will go against former Assemblyman Steve Fox (D) for the 36th Assembly district seat. The incumbent Lackey ended the night with 56.6% of the vote. Fox managed to get second...

AB 5 ‘Grace Period’ Introduced in New Bill

March 5, 2020 1:37 pmMarch 6, 2020 5:55 am

Assemblyman Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) just announced a new bill, AB 2075, to provide a Grace Period for AB 5 compliance through the rest of 2020. “AB 5, in its current form, is causing chaos,” Kiley explained to California Globe. “Even...

Governor Newsom Issues State of Emergency Over Coronavirus Outbreak

March 5, 2020 1:36 pmMarch 6, 2020 5:53 am

On late Wednesday, Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in California in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Previously, Newsom had only given ‘common sense’ advice regarding the outbreak and said that 8,400 people were being monitored. But...

The Failure of School Bond Proposition 13

March 5, 2020 2:13 amMarch 4, 2020 9:19 pm

With all precincts now reporting in, Proposition 13, the bond measure that would have $15 billion go to repairing and modernizing public schools, has failed to pass. Prop 13 fails Voters turned down the measure 56% to 44%, with 2.9...

Ling Ling Chang and Josh Newman Win in the 29th District Senate Battle

March 4, 2020 1:36 pmMarch 5, 2020 11:09 am

Senator Ling Ling Chang (R-Diamond Bar) and former Democratic Senator Josh Newman held off the other Democratic challenger, former Cerritos Joseph Cho, in a close 29th Senate district race on Tuesday. A decisive primary in Orange County Chang ended up...