Los Angeles County public health officials announced restaurants and breweries are allowed to reopen, but “televisions or other screens that broadcast programming must remain off until further notice.”
California
California Unemployment Fraud Scandal Might Involve $20 Billion in False Claims
The massive unemployment claims fraud case in California is growing even bigger as authorities are now estimating that the state has paid out at least $11 billion in false claims for benefits, with another $20 billion in claims appearing “suspicious.”
Making America California
The Biden administration seems determined to run the country on the ruinous model of the Golden State.
As the Biden administration settles in and begins to formulate its agenda, progressive pundits, politicians, and activists point to California as a role model for national policy. If the administration listens to them, it would prove a disaster for America’s already-beleaguered middle and working classes.
California congressman calls for $23 minimum wage
Khanna’s proposal raises questions as to what those currently making $23/hour would do if they were able to earn just as much money for less skilled work. Economists who oppose raising the minimum wage predict that efforts to do so will only cause inflation or put existing other high paying jobs in jeopardy. Furthermore, small businesses would feel the brunt of a minimum wage hike that large corporations like Amazon and Walmart could more easily shoulder.
It’s a secret: California keeps key virus data from public
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has from the start said his coronavirus policy decisions would be driven by data shared with the public to provide maximum transparency.
But with the state starting to emerge from its worst surge, his administration won’t disclose key information that will help determine when his latest stay-at-home order is lifted.
State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public.
The L.A. Times Is Thrilled for Biden to Usher in the Californication of America
Could we be seeing buyers’ remorse? A USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Sunday shows a double-digit increase in the percentage of Americans who think the country is on the wrong track. In December it was 49%, and it has jumped to 65%. While the pollster theorizes this has to do with the Capitol riot and second impeachment, it could just as easily be the insight we have gotten from the fictitious “Office of the President-Elect” and Joe Biden.
‘White lives matter’ banner taken down in California suburb, calling it ‘a despicable act of vandalism’
A “White Lives Matter” banner went up on Sunday at Smith and Dyer streets in Union City CA, just north of Oakland. It was immediately taken down and denounced by officials.
“This is despicable and we removed it immediately,” said Union City Mayor Carol Dutra-Vernaci. The sign was strategically placed in one of the town’s busiest intersections.
California officer loses job over racist post on Parler
Madalone In November had said that the post in question, which was reported to the department and made on the social media platform Parler, was “F— Black Lives Matter.”
Woke Elementary
An elementary school in Cupertino, California—a Silicon Valley community with a median home price of $2.3 million—recently forced a class of third-graders to deconstruct their racial identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.”
New California COVID Orders: Residents Can Travel No More Than 120 Miles From Their Homes
The term ‘California Dream’ used to be commonplace. It used to mean something. Now that term has faded into a tragic joke. From now on the term to describe the Golden State is ‘California Crazy.’
Despite Strict Lockdowns In Calif., COVID-19 Cases Are Higher Than Ever
California has one of the strictest lockdowns in the country, though coronavirus cases are reportedly higher than ever before.
The Golden State issued another round of stay-at-home orders in hopes to curb the virus, but continues to see a surge in new cases. This came after Gov. Gavin Newsom placed the state under strict lockdown measures yet again, despite the fact that they are seemingly ineffective.
California Lawmakers Want Wealth Tax That Will Follow Taxpayers When They Inevitably Move to Cheaper States
As people leave the State of California in record numbers, Progressive lawmakers in that state are moving ahead with plans to enact a wealth tax that will tax a person’s net worth and even follow them out of state should they move.
California: Minorities Who Suffered “Historical Injustices” Should Get Vaccine First
A nation run on identity politics is a genocidal and ethnocidal nightmare that’s worse than you can imagine or believe. And, as usual, California leads the way.
The Sovietization of California
I am writing this column upon returning home to California after five days in Florida. For the first time since my first trip to Los Angeles in 1974 and moving there two years later, I dreaded going to California.
Has California’s day in the sun finished?
Oracle is the world’s second biggest software company. It is also an anchor tenant of Silicon Valley — or rather it was. Last week, the company moved its HQ from California to Texas. Meanwhile, Oracle’s legendary founder, Larry Ellison, will be working from home, which in his case is the Hawaiian island of Lanai (most of which he owns).
Oracle isn’t the first tech giant to walk away. Elon Musk is also moving to Texas and taking Tesla’s company HQ with it. Peter Thiel has already expressed his frustration with Silicon Valley property prices — though has yet to quit California completely.