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The Role of the Media is to Hold Power Accountable

April 28, 2023 12:02 pmApril 28, 2023 12:02 pm

We recently learned President Joe Biden had a cheat sheet with a prewritten question from a journalist at Wednesday’s press conference. “A photographer caught a picture of the cheat sheet as the president held a press conference alongside South Korean...

Kiley Takes Fight Against Julie Su to House Floor

April 28, 2023 11:53 amApril 28, 2023 12:35 pm

Though the vote whether or not to confirm Julie Su as the next Secretary of Labor will happen in the Senate, a half-dozen Representatives took to the House floor this morning to urge their senatorial colleagues to vote against Su...

Investigations of Employees in California

April 28, 2023 7:06 amApril 28, 2023 7:12 am

California’s Labor Code contains provisions related to investigations of employees in Division 3, Chapter 2, Article 6, which was added by Chapter 1252 in 1978. Labor Code Section 2930 provides that any employer who disciplines or discharges an employee on...

DA Gascon Has Little to Show for Multi-Million Dollar Special Cop Prosecutor

April 28, 2023 2:30 amApril 28, 2023 2:31 am

Almost exactly two years after he was hired to do something, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s multi-million-dollar special law enforcement prosecutor Lawrence Middleton finally did something. Whether or not it was the right thing to do remains as yet...

A sea of empty desks inside the California State Assembly

What Is Interim Study?

April 27, 2023 5:24 pmApril 27, 2023 5:33 pm

For those who watched or participated in the Assembly Public Safety Committee hearing on seven fentanyl bills on April 27, 2023, you would have heard that one bill was sent to “interim study.” Such a motion has not been regularly...

Congress is Fed up with the California EDD

April 26, 2023 6:21 pmApril 27, 2023 6:11 am

Congress is getting fed up with the California EDD, today sending a third request for information regarding its disastrous, fraud-riven pandemic response. In January, the House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee asked EDD chief Nancy Farias to turn over...

LAUSD: ‘Violating Employee Rights and Misleading the Courts’

April 26, 2023 5:22 pmApril 26, 2023 5:26 pm

With so many news articles revealing that the American Federation of Teachers was far more deeply involved with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s school reopening guidance from February 2021 than previously known, we now also know that the...