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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...

Protest Groups Across California Demand Governor ‘ReopenCalifornia’ and #EndTheLockdown

April 19, 2020 3:32 pmApril 20, 2020 3:00 pm

The ‘false debate’ is not the discussion that considers the enormous human cost of suppressing economic activity – it’s the discussion that pretends there is no such tradeoff. One in six working Californians has applied for unemployment insurance since...

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...

Stanford University Random Sampling Test Shows Coronavirus More Widespread and Less Deadly Than ‘Experts’ Claimed

April 17, 2020 5:16 pmApril 17, 2020 5:16 pm

Imagine if the nation was ruled by a dictatorship of doctors. It turns out the “experts” from Imperial College were wrong in their early computer model of the coronavirus. Imperial College originally predicted that more than 500,000 people could die...

Senate Hearing Reveals California to Spend Estimated $7 billion on COVID-19 Crisis

April 17, 2020 7:52 amApril 18, 2020 8:47 am

Thursday the State Senate held their first virtual oversight hearing of the more than $2 billion in coronavirus spending Gov. Gavin Newsom has already committed. Lawmakers questioned Department of Finance officials, and in particular, the $1 Billion contract with Chinese-owned...