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Los Angeles City Council Considers Ban On Cashless Businesses

August 23, 2023 4:28 pmAugust 23, 2023 4:28 pm

The Los Angeles City Council continued this week to consider banning all cashless stores, those that only accept credit cards, debit cards, and other virtual payments while not accepting cash, and forcing all business to accept cash as a payment....

WGA says Studios’ Latest Offer To Writers Was Designed to Get Them ‘To Cave’ On Demands

August 23, 2023 12:14 pmAugust 23, 2023 12:17 pm

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents producers and studios, unveiled their latest offer to the Writers Guild of America (WGA) on Tuesday, less than an hour following their latest meeting in Los Angeles. The WGA...

Psychedelic Drug Decriminalization Bill Moves To Suspense File Before Big Assembly Vote

August 23, 2023 7:21 amAugust 23, 2023 7:21 am

A bill to decriminalize plant-based psychedelic drugs was moved into the suspense file on Wednesday by the Assembly Appropriations Committee, a move which will could kill the bill or allow for one final push in the legislature by the end...

LA Mayor Karen Bass, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at Odds Over Busing Migrants During Hurricane Hilary

August 22, 2023 8:05 pmAugust 22, 2023 8:06 pm

In a statement on Tuesday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass denounced Texas Governor Greg Abbott for busing migrants from Brownsville, Texas to Los Angeles during the Tropical Storm. According to Bass, a bus of migrants from Latin American countries under...

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco Declares Bankruptcy

August 22, 2023 12:42 pmAugust 22, 2023 12:42 pm

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced late on Monday that the Archdiocese would be filing for bankruptcy, becoming the latest to do so in California because of the high number of child sexual abuse lawsuits. In the past ten years,...

First GOP Primary Wednesday

August 22, 2023 8:46 amAugust 22, 2023 8:51 am

So on Wednesday night Donald Trump will not be somewhere. That somewhere is the first in a series of Republican Party presidential candidate debates. And Trump not being there seems to be dominating the pre-debate coverage. Oh well – not...

Asian Americans Feel Left Behind by Joe Biden and Far-Left Democrats

August 22, 2023 7:59 amAugust 22, 2023 8:07 am

As a first-generation Korean American, I understand why a growing number of Asian Americans feel left behind by Joe Biden and far-left Democrats. For years Democrats have treated our community as a monolith. Nothing could be farther from the truth,...