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California Increasing State Water Release from 0% to 15% of Requested, Following Winter Storms

January 20, 2022 4:02 pmJanuary 21, 2022 11:57 am

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced on Thursday that they would be releasing more stored water through the State Water Project, due to several weeks of wet weather, increasing the allocation from 0% to 15%. In early December, the...

Gov. Newsom Announces #CaliforniansForAll College Corps Service Program

January 19, 2022 12:01 pm

At a press conference Tuesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the expansion of a program that gives college students $10,000 worth of tuition costs for 450 hours of volunteer community service. The #CaliforniansForAll College Corps expansion will now give up...

RFK Assassin Sirhan Sirhan Denied Parole By Governor Newsom

January 14, 2022 12:00 pm

On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom denied the parole of Sirhan Sirhan, the now 77-year-old man who has been in prison for 53 years for the 1968 murder of New York Senator Robert Kennedy, marking the 16th time that Sirhan...

GM Announces Recognition of California’s Vehicle Emissions Standards

January 10, 2022 12:24 pmJanuary 11, 2022 7:36 am

General Motors announced on Sunday that it would recognize California’s authority to set new Clean Air Act vehicle emissions standards, ending a years long battle between federal and state-level laws on acceptable emissions from vehicles. For years, especially during the...

Senate, Assembly Republicans Ask Governor Newsom To Call Special Session on Homelessness

January 8, 2022 2:26 amApril 3, 2022 3:05 pm

Senate and Assembly Republicans sent a joint letter to Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday, urging him to call for an Extraordinary Special Session of the Legislature to immediately address the problem, rather than waiting until later in the year. Press...

Governor Newsom Enacts Executive Order That Allows More Time For State Body Teleconferenced Meetings

January 6, 2022 2:06 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom signed an Executive Order on Thursday allowing state bodies to continue to hold teleconferenced public meetings instead of in-person public meetings through the end of March due to the recent surge of COVID-19 Omicron variant cases. In...

Assembly Rep. Leader Waldron Introduces Bill to Crack Down on Serial Shoplifters

January 5, 2022 4:18 pm

The Globe reported on the announcement Tuesday of two newly-introduced bills to reverse all of Proposition 47 or parts of it. Billed as “criminal justice “reform,” Proposition 47, passed by misinformed voters in 2014 and flagrantly titled “The Safe Neighborhoods and...