[aggregation-styles] CBS Sacramento SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Becoming a police officer could soon take more time. A new proposal introduced Monday would require anyone who wants to be a police officer in California to get a bachelor’s degree or turn 25 before starting their career. Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles) said...
AOC Named Goya ‘Employee of the Month’ After Boycott Call Leads to Sales Spike
[aggregation-styles] New York Post Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was named “employee of the month” at Goya Foods after sales spiked following her calls to boycott the company’s products, CEO Robert Unanue said Monday. “When she boycotted us, our sales actually increased 1,000 percent,” Robert Unanue said on the “Michael Berry...
Los Angeles County Restaurants Defying Health Orders, Call Outdoor Dining ‘Peaceful Protest’ in Possible Loophole
[aggregation-styles] FOX11 News LOS ANGELES - Numerous restaurant owners are defying California's order to close their doors, but they say it isn't because they don't think the virus is dangerous. It’s a matter of survival. As the owners put it — when outdoor dining stops, the rent isn’t put on...
A GOP Governor for California? This Year Proves Anything is Possible
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times No Republican can be elected to statewide office in California, right? Everyone knows that. The tarnished GOP brand repels voters. But that’s not quite as certain an axiom as it was before last month’s election. And termed-out moderate Republican Mayor Kevin Faulconer, 53, of San Diego...
New L.A. District Attorney Eliminates Cash Bail in First Day on Job
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón announced sweeping policy changes as he took office Monday, including a plan to end the use of cash bail in the nation’s largest court system and a ban on his prosecutors seeking sentencing enhancements in nearly all cases. During...
Use Your Smartphone to Test for COVID? UC Scientists Developing An App for That
[aggregation-styles] SciTechDaily Imagine swabbing your nostrils, putting the swab in a device, and getting a read-out on your phone in 15 to 30 minutes that tells you if you are infected with the COVID-19 virus. This has been the vision for a team of scientists at Gladstone Institutes, University of...
Should California Ban Gas in New Homes? A Climate Battle Heats Up
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times As the California Energy Commission crafts its next update to building regulations, climate activists are urging the agency to ban gas hookups in new construction. Another influential agency, the California Air Resources Board, voted last month to support all-electric building policies, based on research showing that...
Many Aren’t Buying ‘Stay-at-Home’ Message. Experts Say There’s a Better Way
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times With the coronavirus running rampant across large swaths of California and hospitals projected to overflow by Christmas, public officials have fallen back on a familiar refrain: Stay home. Some 33 million Californians are now under a new regional stay-at-home order that began Sunday night, a last-ditch...
We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time
[aggregation-styles] New York Magazine You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been...
Protest in Support of Indian Farmers Slows Traffic on Bay Bridge, Hundreds More Join in Fresno
[aggregation-styles] CBS San Francisco plus GV Wire Staff (CBS SF) — A caravan of protesters trying to raise the awareness of a showdown in India between farmers and the government clogged up traffic on the busy San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Saturday afternoon. In Fresno, a Sunday morning rally of 500...