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John Duarte’s Victory And Overall House Seat Gain For California Republicans

December 5, 2022 12:08 pm

During the weekend, Businessman/Farmer John Duarte was finally declared the winner in California’s 13th House District election over Assemblyman Adam Gray (D-Merced), signaling boosted confidence for both the national GOP and state GOP heading into 2023. Since the primary in...

LA City Council Passes Oil and Gas Drilling Ban

December 3, 2022 2:30 amDecember 2, 2022 10:05 pm

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to place a ban on all new oil and gas well drilling, with existing wells to be phased out in the next two decades. Both the State of California and Los...

Project Roomkey Housing: Homeless Say it Wasn’t a Benefit

December 2, 2022 7:31 pm

Ever since Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Project Roomkey started in 2020 as a way to help the homeless stay off the street by utilizing motel and hotel rooms during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has undergone big changes. It went from a...

California Reparations Panel Estimates $569 Billion is Owed to Black Residents

December 2, 2022 1:19 pmDecember 3, 2022 8:15 am

The California Reparations Task Force gave their first estimation on possible reparations for African-Americans in California on Thursday, coming to an estimated figure of $569 billion of reparations based on past housing discrimination practices in California. The Task Force was...

San Francisco Elections Director Could Lose His Job Because He is White

December 2, 2022 8:08 amDecember 2, 2022 8:15 am

The Merriam Webster online dictionary defines the word alliteration as: Alliteration (noun) uh-lit-uh–rey-shuhn: the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs). Called also head rhyme, initial rhyme. I gained an appreciation for writing from my...

LA County Inches Closer To Mandatory Indoor Mask Mandate

December 2, 2022 2:31 amDecember 2, 2022 1:20 pm

Los Angeles County inched closer to returning to an indoor mask mandate on Thursday, with the rising number of COVID-19 cases moving the County back into the “medium” COVID activity level. Since the repeal of state and local indoor mask mandates...

Lawsuit Challenging Recall Election System In California Rejected By Federal Appellate Court

December 1, 2022 5:02 pm

A civil rights lawsuit that challenged California’s recall election system, as well the candidate being recalled not being allowed to be in the list of replacement candidates, was rejected by the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this...