[aggregation-styles] KQED This summer, while many Californians went to work in their pajamas at their kitchen tables, Vicente Reyes went to work in the grape fields of the Central Valley. “Other Americans have been able to shelter in place at home, we still keep working,” he said. “And without our...
Motion Filed To Question Gov. Newsom Over COVID-19 Response
[aggregation-styles] CBS Sacramento SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A new motion filed in a Sacramento federal court is looking to depose, or in other words, question Gov. Gavin Newsom and other top state officials over their pandemic response. The motion was filed by plaintiffs suing Newsom over the ban on protests at...
Taco Bell To Add Nacho Fries, Bacon Club Chalupa Starting Christmas Eve After Cutting Menu Amid COVID-19
[aggregation-styles] USA Today After recently trimming its menu, Taco Bell is expanding it – for a limited time. Starting Dec. 24, the fast-food chain says it is bringing back Nacho Fries along with the $1 Loaded Nacho Taco, Taco and Burrito Cravings Pack and Bacon Club Chalupa. Taco Bell removed...
Direct Cash Payments Likely as Lawmakers Near COVID Aid Deal
[aggregation-styles] NBC News WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders and the White House are nearing agreement on a roughly $900 billion coronavirus relief deal that will likely include a new round of direct payments, three sources familiar with the negotiations said Wednesday. The emerging package will include enhanced federal jobless benefits, small...
Negotiators Near Agreement on Stimulus Checks in COVID-19 Aid Bill
WASHINGTON — Top congressional leaders are nearing agreement on a long-delayed COVID-19 relief package, hoping to seal a deal as early as Wednesday that would extend aid to individuals and businesses and help ship coronavirus vaccines to millions. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a coauthor of a $908 billion bipartisan package,...
New Alternate Care Site Takes Shape Just as COVID-19 Vaccine Arrives
Tuesday was "a historic day" said Dr. Rais Vohra, Fresno County's interim health officer. The first shipment of 7,800 doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine arrived by Fedex at the health department early in the day. Simultaneously, a team contracted from AMI Expeditionary Healthcare that includes doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals...
Newsom’s Dinner Party Venue ‘Indoor’ Under New State Guidelines
[aggregation-styles] Politico OAKLAND — California public health officials have quietly settled the debate over what constitutes outdoor dining — with a definition that makes Gov. Gavin Newsom's French Laundry meal decidedly indoors. The Democratic governor initially said several times that his November meal at a lobbyist's birthday party was outside....
First Shipment of COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Arrive in Southern California
[aggregation-styles] ABC7 Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- As the first shipments of Pfizer's authorized COVID-19 vaccine ship out from Michigan, about 83,000 doses are expected to arrive in Los Angeles County this week. A FedEx plane carrying the region's first shipments landed at Los Angeles International Airport Sunday night,...
These Clovis Restaurants Are Continuing In-Person Dining Despite Lockdown
At least four restaurants in Old Town Clovis are continuing to offer either outdoor and/or indoor dining to their patrons in defiance of California's regional stay at home order. GV Wire℠ was in Old Town Thursday afternoon and saw a tent set up outside of 'Blast and Brew', people eating...
Will COVID Vaccine Arrive This Weekend? Local Hospitals to Decide Who Gets It First.
"We expect the vaccine to arrive as early as this weekend," Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted late Friday afternoon. Fresno County Interim Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra says his department is expecting 7,800 doses from the initial batch. "It will be up to the hospitals to determine who will get it...