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LA County to Appeal Skid Row Homeless District Court Order

April 22, 2021 11:44 amApril 22, 2021 2:56 pm

Los Angeles County announced on Wednesday that they would be appealing a District Court ruling issued Tuesday that ordered the city and country of Los Angeles to offer housing or shelter to the entire homeless population in the Skid Row...

Faauuga Moliga Selected as Next SF School Board VP Following Collins’ Removal Over Racist Tweets

April 21, 2021 3:00 pm

In a controversy-stricken and charged meeting on Tuesday, the San Francisco School board chose board member Faauuga Moliga as the next vice president, replacing the recently ousted Alison Collins following her racist tweets scandal. A month ago, a group hoping...

Winning a War of Attrition Against Government Unions

April 21, 2021 2:45 amApril 21, 2021 7:46 am

Anyone involved in state or local politics in California soon realizes that government unions are the most powerful special interest in the state. From time to time, as the ride-share behemoths proved in spectacular fashion last November with Proposition 22, corporations...

U.S. District Judge Orders Los Angeles To Offer Housing To All Skid Row Homeless By October

April 21, 2021 2:17 amApril 22, 2021 2:56 pm

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ordered the city and country of Los Angeles on Tuesday to offer housing or shelter to the entire homeless population in the Skid Row neighborhood by October. Skid Row, which has had large numbers...

New Study By Stanford-NIH Adjacent Researcher Hypothesizes Masks Are Ineffective Against COVID

April 20, 2021 1:39 pmMay 16, 2022 11:34 am

CORRECTION and UPDATE: This story has been updated with a clarification that better explains the relationships between the study’s author and various institutions whose proximity to the author cast a greater impression of support from those institutions than was warranted....

Ventura County Supervisors Dismiss Contempt Lawsuit Against Godspeak Calvary Chapel

April 20, 2021 8:31 amApril 21, 2021 6:18 am

The Ventura County Board of Supervisors dropped their lawsuit against Pastor Rob McCoy and Godspeak Calvary Chapel following the recent U. S. Supreme Court decisions to protect religious practice in California, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom ordering the indefinite closure of churches during...

San Diego to Pay COVID ‘Hazard Pay’ to County Govt. Employees Who Never Missed a Paycheck

April 19, 2021 3:26 pmApril 20, 2021 6:32 am

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors, led by former State Assemblyman Chairman Nathan Fletcher, has formulated a proposal to distribute stimulus funds provided by the Federal Government’s American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, including hazard pay to the tune...