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Some Decisions Don’t Add Up in California’s COVID-19 Spending and Policy

April 15, 2020 2:07 amApril 14, 2020 8:03 pm

While California residents have been under strict stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus crisis, the homeless vagrants living on city streets have been exempted from the city, county and statewide orders. Living in unsheltered filth, together with diseases many already have,...

Why Did Gov. Gavin Newsom Make Hurried $1 Billion Deal With China’s BYD for Masks?

April 13, 2020 2:11 amApril 14, 2020 8:10 am

There are many questions surrounding the government reaction to the COVID-19 virus, and especially in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom just approved spending $1 Billion of taxpayers funds on masks from Chinese company BYD. Following many requests from healthcare workers...

California Spends $1 Billion to secure 200 million masks a month

April 8, 2020 7:10 pmApril 9, 2020 2:17 pm

‘We need to spend what we need, but also need what we spend. And the Governor just went way beyond that this week without any oversight.’ On Tuesday, Governor Newsom announced that California would spend $990 million to receive...