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The Greenberg Brief: Breed’s Grand Trans Appointment

May 4, 2024 7:00 amMay 4, 2024 7:01 am

We just can’t stop the constant parade of controversy, can we? San Francisco’s mayor London Breed Thursday announced her making an appointment for the position of Executive Director of the “Office of Transgender Initiatives.” Head-scratching aside, Breed finds this specific...

USC To Begin Disciplinary Actions Against Students Arrested During Protests

May 3, 2024 12:37 pmMay 3, 2024 12:37 pm

According to emails sent to arrested USC students late on Thursday, the University of Southern California is to begin disciplinary actions against all arrested students during protests last week, warning that suspensions and expulsions could be coming. Last week, a...

Advantage, Hochman: Gascon Aide Scandal Dimming Re-Election Hopes?

May 3, 2024 2:45 amMay 3, 2024 2:46 am

Sometimes in politics, campaign gifts just seem to fall out of the sky. So it has happened for Nathan Hochman, the man challenging Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon in November, when Gascon top “ethics and integrity” lieutenant Diana Teran...

Senate, Assembly GOP Leaders Announce Budget Action On Illegal And Violent Protests On University Campuses

May 3, 2024 2:35 amMay 3, 2024 2:36 am

Senate Minority Leader Jones (R-San Diego) and Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher (R-Yuba City) announced on Thursday that they would be calling to revoke or reduce state funding of universities’ Administrations that fail to ensure campus safety and prevent unlawful...

UCLA Pro-Palestinian Protest: More Than 200 Arrested, Encampment Removed By Police

May 2, 2024 5:56 pmMay 2, 2024 5:56 pm

The Pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus of UCLA was removed in the early hours of the morning on Thursday, with police coming in and arrested hundreds of protestors, while more than 300 others voluntarily left. Until Thursday morning, UCLA...

Assemblyman Low Narrowly Defeats Simitian For Second Place In 16th Congressional District Recount

May 2, 2024 12:53 pmMay 2, 2024 12:53 pm

The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters announced on Wednesday that the recall on the deadlocked second place 16th Congressional election vote was finalized, with Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) narrowly beating Santa Clara County Supervisor and former state Senator Joe...

CSU Sacramento Capitulates to Infantilized Student Protesters

May 2, 2024 9:05 amMay 3, 2024 6:28 pm

When will the firings begin? Why does the Columbia University President still have a job? She has so grossly mishandled the pro-Palestine protesters, she should have been escorted to her car the day she refused to end the protests. Now...