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2020 Q1 Campaign Finance: What 49th Congressional District Candidates Raised And Spent

April 21, 2020 2:25 amApril 20, 2020 9:21 pm

2020 Congressional battleground districts in California are scattered all over the state, mostly in suburban or formerly rural areas going over a change. But in SoCal, Orange County seems to have the lion share. Most races in or around the...

California Saving $40 Million a Day Thanks to Reduced Road Traffic due to Coronavirus

April 20, 2020 5:35 pm

A UC Davis study has found that since stay-at-home orders have been put into effect, California has been saving around $40 million a day due to reduced traffic and reduced crashes. According to the study, traffic has gone down on...

Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti Announces Historic Number of Furloughs During State of the City Address

April 20, 2020 3:00 pmApril 20, 2020 3:42 pm

On Sunday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced during the annual State of the City address that due to a budget shortfall caused by the effects of the coronavirus, a sweeping 26 unpaid days off of furloughs for all civilian...

Nearly 16,000 Hotel Rooms Secured For Homeless, Surpassing Goal for ‘Project Roomkey’

April 19, 2020 2:26 amApril 18, 2020 10:32 pm

On Saturday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that Project Roomkey, the statewide effort to secure hotel rooms to be used by the homeless temporarily to keep COVID-19 coronavirus social distancing standards, had surpassed it’s goal of 15,000 hotel rooms across the...

2020 Q1 Campaign Finance: What 1st Congressional District Candidates Raised And Spent

April 18, 2020 9:12 amApril 18, 2020 8:47 am

Most “landslide” districts tend to have a usual pattern. One strong party member usually dukes it out in the primary and faces either a strong challenger from their own party or faces a member from another party who somehow beat...

Musicians and Music Professionals to Receive AB 5 Exemption

April 18, 2020 2:09 amApril 17, 2020 9:12 pm

On Friday, several music industry organizations announced that musicians and music professionals will receive an exemption from the independent contractor limiting Assembly Bill 5 law. Another industry getting an AB 5 exemption Musicians, who have been trying to get an...

Mountain Lions in California to be Temporarilly Protected as Endangered Species

April 17, 2020 2:28 pm

On Thursday, the California Fish and Game Commission voted 5-0 in favor of starting a petition to temporarily extend Endangered Species Act protections to Southern California and Central Coast populations of mountain lions. Mountain Lions temporarily protected as an endangered...