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Three Huge Strikes Impact California: Kaiser Permanente, SAG-AFTRA, WGA

October 5, 2023 12:31 pmOctober 5, 2023 12:31 pm

Two major strikes involving the healthcare industry and the entertainment industry continued on Thursday, with both the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television (SAG-AFTRA) and Kaiser Permanente workers both currently negotiating to end the strikes as soon as possible. While...

Useless, Clueless City Officials Destroying Sacramento with Homeless Crisis

October 5, 2023 8:24 amOctober 6, 2023 6:57 am

In early September we reported on a national study which found that Sacramento placed second only behind Baltimore for the dirtiest cities in America. With 39,186 complaints per 100k population; the Sacramento zip code of 95818 had 48,864 complaints per...

Bill to Ban Ballot Hand Counts Signed By Governor Newsom

October 4, 2023 6:35 pmOctober 4, 2023 6:35 pm

A bill to end the manual hand count of ballots in elections with more than 1,000 voters was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, going into effect immediately after signing. Assembly Bill 969, authored by Assemblywoman Gail...

Paid Sick Leave Expansion Bill Signed Into Law By Governor Newsom

October 4, 2023 4:45 pmOctober 4, 2023 4:45 pm

A bill to increase the minimum number of paid sick leave days a year for employees from three to five, as well as expand the minimum number of accrued sick days a year from six to ten, was signed into...

Los Angeles City Council Moves Forward With Proposal to Ban Cashless Businesses

October 4, 2023 11:42 amOctober 4, 2023 11:42 am

The Los Angeles City Council voted 13-0 on Tuesday to move forward with a motion that would ban all cashless stores in the city, with the chief legislative analyst now being instructed to work with the city attorney on the...

LA County Parents’ Free Speech Win Has National import

October 3, 2023 8:30 pmOctober 3, 2023 8:38 pm

In a major win for the basic American right of freedom of speech that could have national implications, a Los Angeles County Judge has ruled a civil trial against County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer’s draconian and censorious health department...

Seven (!) Starbucks Closing in SF is Demise of Downtown Culture

October 3, 2023 6:37 pmOctober 3, 2023 6:37 pm

Starbucks is pulling out of much of San Francisco’s downtown Financial District, closing locations in the same area plagued by record-high vacant office space. [First reported by Business Times, and also here]. To some, Starbucks’ leaving is a good thing,...