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California Moves to Set Water Pumping Limits Without Federal Input

April 3, 2020 2:18 amApril 3, 2020 5:23 pm

Last year federal investigations found that water could be diverted to farmland On Tuesday, California broke with policy and issued a new operating permit for its water project in the Central Valley without federal input. A break from federal...

California Pandemic Preparedness Defunding in 2011 Costing Lives a Decade Later

April 2, 2020 5:25 pm

Earlier this week, investigations into California’s COVID-19 coronavirus preparedness found that a $200 million emergency pandemic response program passed and signed by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006 had been completely defunded only 5 years later. A 2000’s need, a 2010’s...

The New Power of Incumbency: How COVID-19 Has Changed Voters’ Expectations for Politicians

April 2, 2020 3:06 pmApril 2, 2020 3:25 pm

Since 1964, voters have returned their incumbent representative to Washington 93 percent of the time. In recent years, however, the advantage typically belonged to the outsider candidate, the person vowing to drain the swamp from the state capital to Washington,...

Man Who Derailed Train to Crash Into USNS Mercy Charged In Federal Court

April 2, 2020 2:10 pm

On Wednesday, train engineer Eduardo Moreno was charged with train wrecking at the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles over a Tuesday incident in which he tried to crash his freight train into the USNS Mercy. Moreno now faces up...

CA Department of Public Health Suspending Nursing Home Relegations

April 2, 2020 2:05 pm

Nursing homes are under lockdown following some very serious COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths, following the first deadly outbreak in a Seattle nursing home, which resulted in 35 total deaths. Since then, we are seeing too many stories about nursing home...

3,500 Prisoners To Be Released Early Due to Coronavirus Threats

April 2, 2020 8:25 am

‘There are now pardoned or commuted murderers back on the street.’ Following weeks of speculation of early prisoner releases, 3,500 prisoners were announced to be released early on Tuesday to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus by alleviating...

Sacramento Homeless Transients Take Over Vacant Home In Stunt by ‘Tenants Union’

April 2, 2020 7:58 amApril 2, 2020 7:58 am

‘This has become a moral obligation, so if that means breaking legal law, we must do what we need to.’ In what appears to be a staged stunt in Sacramento, a group of transients broke into a Land Park...