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Curious – Where was George?

October 19, 2023 1:37 pmOctober 19, 2023 1:38 pm

There are 10 people who will be on the ballot in the March Los Angeles District Attorney primary vote – nine of them showed up at a debate Wednesday. Guess which one wasn’t there? George Gascon skipping the debate would...

City of Sacramento asks Judge to Dismiss DA’s ‘Deeply Flawed’ Lawsuit

October 19, 2023 12:05 pmOctober 19, 2023 12:10 pm

In September, Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho filed a lawsuit against the City of Sacramento for failing to abate the homeless crisis in the Capitol city by refusing to enforce existing laws. DA Ho said Sacramento’s homeless crisis has...

East Bay Construction Worker Illegally Fired for Refusing to Join Labor Union

October 19, 2023 8:14 am

California’s lack of Right to Work protections for private sector workers rears its ugly head again. According to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Alexandra Le, an employee of Pleasanton-based materials testing company Construction Testing Services, has hit...

California Trucking Assoc. Sues CARB Over Advanced Clean Fleet Regulations

October 19, 2023 2:30 amOctober 19, 2023 2:31 am

The California Trucking Association (CTA), the state’s largest trucking trade association, filed a lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board (CARB) earlier this week over soon to be enacted Advanced Clean Fleet regulations. The controversy over the CARB deal dates...

Critics Blast Newsom’s China Trip as Publicity Stunt, to ‘Burnish International Experience’

October 19, 2023 2:25 amOctober 20, 2023 8:56 am

The Governor’s office released Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Chinese trip itinerary on Wednesday, showing that Newsom will take a climate-focused tour of the Country less than a month before the APEC Conference in San Francisco . According to a press release...

Los Angeles Anchorwoman Christina Pascucci Announces Run for 2024 U.S. Senate

October 18, 2023 11:55 amOctober 18, 2023 11:55 am

Christina Pascucci, a longtime Los Angeles television anchorwoman, announced on Wednesday that she will be running for the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat, becoming the second major candidate to announce candidacy for the Senate in the past week. Pascucci,...

UC Berkeley Professor Urges Law Firms Not to Hire His ‘Anti-Semitic’ Students

October 18, 2023 7:34 amOctober 18, 2023 7:34 am

Law Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon at University California, Berkeley wrote an op ed in the Wall Street Journal warning legal employers to not hire his law students, because some of them are antisemitic. Professor Solomon said that some of his...