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San Jose City Mayor Sam Liccardo Pushing for Tuesday Vote On Mandatory Firearm Insurance and Annual Fee

January 25, 2022 2:14 amJanuary 24, 2022 9:07 pm

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo made a final push Monday to make San Jose the first city in the USA to have mandatory gun ownership fees and liability insurance, via a City Council vote on Tuesday. According to the proposed...

Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccine For All California School Children Under New Bill

January 24, 2022 3:22 pm

A bill that would add the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of required vaccines to attend school, as well as close the exemption loophole, was introduced to the Senate on Monday. According to the bill’s author, Senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento),...

LA Unified School District Bans Cloth Masks Usage On Schools Beginning Monday

January 24, 2022 12:03 pm

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) began a ban on cloth face masks on Monday, changing the requirements for masks to be more form-fitting, non-cloth, and coming with a nose wire, due to new masking guidance by the County....

VP Harris Visits So Cal, Announces $600 Million in Wildfire Disaster Relief Funding

January 22, 2022 2:19 amJanuary 21, 2022 10:10 pm

Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in San Bernardino on Friday, beginning a weekend Southern California visit by touring wildfire damaged forests and announcing $600 million in disaster relief funding for the U.S. Forest Service in the state. Harris was joined...

Bill Introduced to Allow 12 Years And Older To Vaccinate Without Parental Consent

January 21, 2022 4:34 pm

A bill that would allow children 12 years and older to vaccinate without receiving consent from their parents was introduced in the Senate on Thursday. Senate Bill 866, authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), would specifically authorize minors 12...

Bill To Convert Municipal Golf Courses to Affordable Housing Killed In Assembly Committee

January 21, 2022 11:55 amJanuary 21, 2022 11:55 am

A bill that would have created a grant program to convert municipal golf courses into housing and public lands, died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday, ending a nearly month-long threat to effectively remove municipal golf courses across the...

Appellate Court Rules LA, Ventura Counties Violated 2nd Amendment During Pandemic

January 21, 2022 2:42 amJanuary 20, 2022 8:53 pm

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that Los Angeles County and Ventura County violated the second amendment during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 by shutting down gun and ammunition stores, reversing an...