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Will Katrina Foley Bankrupt Orange County?

March 5, 2021 11:17 amMarch 5, 2021 12:47 pm

UPDATED: Call it dueling budget analyses. As the race for Orange County supervisor in the 2nd District runs through its last week, voters were given a unique contrast between the two top candidates: Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley, a Democrat...

New Study Finds That ‘Calexit’ Out Of State Migration Continued During Pandemic

March 5, 2021 2:14 amMarch 5, 2021 5:38 pm

A new study by the California Policy Lab (CPL) found that, between March 2020 and December 2020, most Californian counties lost more residents than gained, confirming that “Calexit” continued even during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the CPL, while large counties...

Indoor Youth Sports To Resume Following Settlement By Newsom Administration

March 4, 2021 5:47 pm

On Thursday, California agreed to a settlement with Let Them Play CA and two San Diego-area high school coaches, allowing both indoor and outdoor youth sports to resume in the state. Under the terms of the settlement, indoor youth sports...

CHHS Announces Plan To Reroute 40% of Vaccines to Vulnerable Areas of State

March 4, 2021 3:18 pmMarch 4, 2021 3:20 pm

California Health and Human Services (CHHS) Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly announced Thursday that the state will be rerouting 40% of all COVID-19 vaccines to people in the state’s most vulnerable areas to both quicken the economic reopening of counties currently in...

Petaluma Becomes First American City To Ban New Gas Pump, Station Construction

March 3, 2021 6:02 pm

The Sonoma County city of Petaluma just this week became the first city in the United States to ban the construction of new gas pumps and stations. The push to ban new stations in Petaluma and through proposed local legislation...

Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager Wins Special Senate Election

March 3, 2021 3:15 pm

Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager (D-Baldwin Hills) won the special election for the Senate 30th district seat Tuesday, with over 67% of the vote. The election, triggered by then-Senator Holly Mitchell winning an L.A. County Board of Supervisors seat in November, was...

San Francisco, Six Other Counties Fall To Red Reopening Tier

March 3, 2021 2:27 pmMarch 3, 2021 3:04 pm

On Tuesday, the California Department of Health downgraded the counties of El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Napa, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Clara from the the highest COVID-19 reopening tier, purple, to the next lowest, red. The move, which...