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LA City Clerk Approves Kevin De Leon Recall Petition

December 7, 2022 12:07 pm

A recall petition against Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de Leon was approved by the Los Angeles City Clerk on Tuesday, giving recall supporters until the end of March to collect enough signatures to trigger a recall election sometime in...

CDCR Announces Closures Of Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, California City Correctional Facility

December 7, 2022 2:30 amDecember 6, 2022 7:02 pm

In a Tuesday press release, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced that both the Chuckawalla Valley State Prison and the California City Correctional Facility will be shut down as prison facilities in the next few years. There will be...

They Did Their Jobs at Pearl Harbor, and We Are All the Better For It

December 7, 2022 2:00 amDecember 6, 2022 5:58 pm

The war that changed everything began at 7:55 a.m. on December 7, 1941, when a Japanese strike force launched a devastating surprise attack on the sleeping men and ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Now that...

Intel Announces 200 Layoffs Coming Continuing Mass Silicon Valley Tech Cutbacks

December 6, 2022 12:56 pm

Mass tech layoffs that began in late October continued across Silicon Valley on Tuesday, with tech company Intel announcing 201 job layoffs in Santa Clara and Folsom. The trend of layoffs began just over a month ago when Twitter, shortly...

Restaurant Groups Submit Over 1 Million Signatures For Fast Food Labor Referendum

December 6, 2022 2:30 amDecember 5, 2022 8:59 pm

A group of restaurants and restaurant trade groups submitted over 1 million signatures to the California Secretary of State’s office on Monday, likely enough to place a measure on the ballot over the fate of AB 257, a bill to...

REAL ID Deadline Extended To 2025 Due TO COVID-19 Concerns

December 5, 2022 5:00 pmDecember 5, 2022 4:39 pm

The deadline for Californians and other Americans to get a REAL ID identification card was moved again on Monday by the Department of Homeland Security, with the new date changing for the third time in three years. REAL IDs, which...

California Reparations Panel Estimates $569 Billion is Owed to Black Residents

December 2, 2022 1:19 pmDecember 3, 2022 8:15 am

The California Reparations Task Force gave their first estimation on possible reparations for African-Americans in California on Thursday, coming to an estimated figure of $569 billion of reparations based on past housing discrimination practices in California. The Task Force was...