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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...

Protestors Gather In Encinitas Demanding the City Reopen Beaches, Parks, and Trails

April 20, 2020 9:52 amApril 20, 2020 9:54 am

Hundreds of people from across San Diego County gathered Sunday in Encinitas along Highway 101 to protest the closure of public spaces due to COVID-19. Local law enforcement was on standby but did not attempt to break up the crowds...

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...

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...

2020 Q1 Campaign Finance: What 12th Congressional District Candidates Raised and Spent

April 17, 2020 2:30 amApril 16, 2020 9:15 pm

The 12th Congressional District, which comprises most of San Francisco, has had Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in charge since redistricting almost a decade ago, and the region having her as a Congresswoman since the end of the...

CNN, California Falsely Claim that 1,255 Elon Musk Provided Ventilators Never Reached Hospitals

April 16, 2020 5:10 pmApril 17, 2020 2:22 pm

Tesla Founder and CEO Elon Musk was accused of not delivering promised ventilators to hospitals across California by CNN and state officials Thursday, prompting Musk to provide clear evidence that hospitals received them over a week ago. Musk’s ventilator donation...