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Governor Newsom, Legislature Agree To $297.9 Billion 2024-2025 State Budget

June 24, 2024 12:47 pmJune 24, 2024 12:47 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) announced this weekend that they have agreed to a state budget of $297.9 billion, of which $211.5 billion comes from the general fund. According...

Is the Times Finally Turning on Gascon?

June 24, 2024 2:45 amJune 24, 2024 8:13 am

Restoration. Rehabilitation. Second chances. Equity. Those are at the heart of the progressive criminal justice movement and at the core of the Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s policies of law enforcement, or non-enforcement, as is more typical. And it seems...

Disney Employees Sue Company Over Aborted Relocation Of 2,000 Employees From California To Florida

June 22, 2024 2:45 amJune 22, 2024 2:46 am

Two Disney employees who sold their homes in anticipation of a move to the Orlando, Florida area that never came to fruition, sued Disney earlier this week, saying that they are seeking damages after the company lied to them over...

Pouches, Lockers, And Trusting Students: The Options For Enforcing The LAUSD Cell Phone Ban

June 21, 2024 6:02 pmJune 21, 2024 6:02 pm

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) now has a cell phone ban in place for next year. Other school districts and even the state jumped onboard with a similar ban, after the recent U.S. Surgeon General announcement on cell...

Consequences for Gascon?

June 21, 2024 4:19 pmJune 21, 2024 4:19 pm

Wealthy people tend to be immune to crime – that is, the day-to-day violent kind of crime. While claims involving novel interpretations of the IRS code, a dodgy lawyer, a business manager that may be more interested in taking care...

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Faces Growing Calls To Resign Following Recall Election Approval, FBI Raid

June 21, 2024 12:39 pmJune 21, 2024 12:39 pm

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao faced a growing number of calls for resignation late Thursday and Friday following a tumultuous week where both a recall election was approved by county voting officials and her home was raided by the FBI over...

Senate Race Heats Up As Schiff, Garvey Go After Each Other Over Labor Unions

June 21, 2024 8:00 amJune 21, 2024 8:01 am

The 2024 U.S. Senate race reached the first major post-primary clash this week as both Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and former baseball star Steve Garvey (R) went after each other over labor union. While both Garvey and Schiff had gone...