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Coronavirus Could Force Private Medical Practices to Close or Sell

In a matter of weeks, Dr. William Goral, a private practice ear, nose and throat specialist in San Bernardino County, will be out of business. His small, solo clinic, which has served patients throughout the Inland Empire for 30 years, postponed about 80% of patient visits due to coronavirus restrictions....

Taxpayers Will Pay Restaurants to Feed Seniors in California

SACRAMENTO — Taxpayers will pay restaurants to make meals for millions of California's seniors during the coronavirus pandemic, an initiative that could pump billions of dollars into a devastated industry while generating sales tax collections for cash-strapped local governments, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday. California has about 5.7 million people...

Keep Your Dime: California’s Plastic Bag Ban Lifted Amid Pandemic.

SACRAMENTO — Grocery and retail stores in California won’t be required to charge 10 cents per bag, and they can again hand out thinner, single-use plastic bags under an executive order signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. It’s a change that retailers have wanted for weeks, as many major grocery...

Harder Than Shutting Down: How Does Newsom Reopen California?

Restless Californians are letting Gov. Gavin Newsom know they’re over his statewide order to stay home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. At noisy street demonstrations and in polite letters from government officials, they’re saying: Let us start getting back to normal. Other local leaders — still concerned about...

Will Newsom Increase COVID-19 Costs on Farms, Other Businesses?

California growers and other businesses oppose a proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom that would increase their workers' compensation costs by billions of dollars. Newsom reportedly is contemplating an executive order providing workers' comp benefits to every "essential" employee who becomes infected with COVID-19. And, infected employees — including farm, restaurant,...

California Cities Project 2-Year Losses of $6.7 Billion

SACRAMENTO — California's 482 cities say they will collectively lose $6.7 billion over the next two years because of the coronavirus pandemic, prompting layoffs and furloughs for public workers and potential cuts to basic services such as sanitation, public safety and housing. But that estimate, compiled by the League of...

Shortage on a Stick: More Swabs on the Way, but That Won’t Solve California Test Gap

For all the talk of ventilators and new-fangled serological tests, it’s the shortage of glorified Q-tips that has brought California, the world’s fifth largest economy, to its knees. But that may be about to change. Fresh off a phone call with President Trump, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that the...

Conservative Group Sues to Stop California Aid to Immigrants

SACRAMENTO — A conservative organization is asking the California Supreme Court to block the state's first-in-the-nation plan to give money to immigrants living in the country illegally who are hurt by the coronavirus. The Center for American Liberty argued on behalf of two long-shot Republican legislative candidates that the $75...

First Step: Newsom Allows Elective Surgeries to Resume After COVID-19 Halt

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom loosened California'a stay-at-home order on Wednesday to let hospitals resume scheduled surgeries. It's the first step toward reopening the state — largely shut down for more than a month because of the cronavirus pandemic. Newsom gave no date for when businesses could reopen and people...

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