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California State Auditor Rates Unemployment Agency ‘High Risk’

August 25, 2023 3:05 pmAugust 25, 2023 3:48 pm

The California State Auditor’s Office has slapped the omni-shambles Employment Development Department, California’s unemployment agency with a “high risk” rating, meaning that the “likelihood of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement or the likelihood of impaired economy, efficiency, or effectiveness causing...

Sonoma County Equity Office Gave ARPA Funding to Inmate for DUI Case

August 25, 2023 7:45 amAugust 25, 2023 7:46 am

Within the County of Sonoma, school boards and nonprofits continue to be riddled with nepotism. Santa Rosa City Schools Board (SRCS) President Stephanie Manieri, her aunt, Executive Director Maria Isabel Lopez, Raizes Collective and SRCS Trustee Alegria De La Cruz...

The Startling COVID Shot Death and Illness Figures

August 25, 2023 6:40 amAugust 25, 2023 12:38 pm

Safe and effective – that has been the COVID shot mantra. But California figures show the shot was not nearly as safe as a regular vaccine. And as to effective, well it depends upon how the word is defined: it...

Criminal Justice Legal Foundation Report: Prop. 57 Does Not Reduce Recidivism

August 24, 2023 2:59 pmAugust 24, 2023 3:37 pm

In April, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) released a report suggesting that the number of inmates given early release in the year after enactment of Proposition 57, who were convicted of new crimes over the next three...

Two Doctors File Lawsuit Challenging California Law Requiring ‘Implicit Bias’ Training in Medical Education

August 24, 2023 2:43 pmAugust 25, 2023 6:53 am

Two California doctors are challenging a state law that requires them to call the doctors they teach racists. In 2019, California passed Assembly Bill 241 by then-Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles), requiring that starting in 2022 teachers of continuing medical...

Apple Reverses Course On SB 244 Right To Repair Bill

August 24, 2023 1:27 pmAugust 24, 2023 1:27 pm

A bill to require companies provide consumers with the necessary materials to repair products that were purchased from a manufacturer received major backing from tech companies this weeks, with long-time “right-to-repair” opponent Apple now formally in favor of the legislation....

Little California, But Lots of Fire at GOP Debate

August 24, 2023 7:38 amAugust 24, 2023 8:15 am

First, as much as it pains me to admit, California was not directly addressed in Wednesday night’s first GOP presidential debate. Mea culpa. Indirectly, though, the hot button issues on the agenda could all be said to have had their...