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California’s Local Elections Procedures

February 13, 2022 8:43 amFebruary 13, 2022 8:49 am

California’s Elections Code provides numerous rules for local and consolidated elections in Division 10. Part 1 deals with General Provisions and Chapter 1 deals with Voters and Procedure. Section 10000 provides that every person is entitled to vote at a...

Billionaire Real Estate Developer Rick Caruso Enters Los Angeles Mayoral Race

February 12, 2022 2:25 amFebruary 14, 2022 9:55 am

Billionaire real estate developer and CEO of the Caruso real estate company, Rick Caruso, entered the Los Angeles Mayoral race on Friday. A graduate of the University of Southern California (USC) and Pepperdine University, Caruso grew up in Los Angeles....

Mass Retail Chain Store Closures Continue in San Francisco

February 11, 2022 12:43 pm

Pharmacy chain Walgreens announced another store closure in San Francisco for later this month, becoming only the latest chain store to close in San Francisco, and continuing on the trend of retail chains closing mass numbers of locations in San...

‘Safety not Politics’ Says Sacramento Prosecutor Running for District Attorney

February 11, 2022 8:58 am

Thien Ho is Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney for the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, and is running for Sacramento County District Attorney. Ho and his family also escaped communist Vietnam and came to the United States in 1976, a...

COVID-19 Mandates and the Super Bowl: Workers Raise Concerns About Enforcement

February 11, 2022 2:30 amFebruary 10, 2022 8:30 pm

This Sunday, Super Bowl LVI will be held at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. With mask and proof of vaccination mandates in place for the game on Sunday, several SoFi Stadium employees spoke to the Globe on Thursday, raising questions about...

GOP-led Effort to End Gov. Newsom’s COVID State of Emergency Fails

February 10, 2022 3:26 pm

A GOP effort in the Assembly to end Governor Gavin Newsom’s two year COVID-19 state of emergency fell short of votes on Thursday, with the Assembly voting 48-15 to keep the order in place until at least the current end...

California Sues Tesla Over Racial Discrimination Allegations

February 10, 2022 12:07 pm

The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) field a lawsuit against car maker and clean energy company Tesla on Wednesday over allegations of racial discrimination against black workers at its Fremont plant. Since the late 2010’s, the number...